I absolutely agree, but wanted to mention that there are some slight
access issues with the newest Fusion beta, specifically with some
areas being identified as "unknown" in the machine settings pane.
That having been said, Fusion and Boot Cam, or even both are great
options. In my case, I have boot camp set up and use it when I'm
training, or when I don't want things to run slowly or less stable
because of the virtualization. Often, I find that I'm happily working
along in Leopard and then suddenly come across a situation which
requires me to use Windows for something or other. Rather than save
everything, close all my applications, etc..., I simply go to Fusion
and boot my Bootcamp partition. That's one of the really neat things
about Fusion, you can of course install an operating system virtually,
or, if you already have a boot camp partition set up, you can use it
without much fuss thereby giving you the best of both worlds.
I think there are a few drivers that can be installed to enable such
devices as blue tooth, the camera and probably some others I'm not
thinking of right now. All the major devices, i.e. sound, video,
drives work fine with Fusion without additional installation.
Concerning Bluetooth and the other drivers I just mentioned, the
regular Apple drivers found on the Leopard CD are what's needed.
I really like using Fusion especially since I can make it perform an
unattended Windows XP installation. Great for quickly setting up
machines for testing.
On Jul 29, 2008, at 2:54 PM, erik burggraaf wrote:
Hi,
Fusion and bootcamp are both great. Which is best for you depends
entirely on what your needs are.
I chose fusion because I only want to do the odd thing in windows and
I don't want to interupt the rest of my computing life to take care of
windows business. If you don't care about the seperation, then
bootcamp is free and more than adaquit.
Fusion is %100 accessible, don't worry about a thing there.
There are several good key mapping utilities, but since I'm a window-
eyes user I don't need them and have largely ignored the threads on
them.
When you install windows on fusion it will place your mac home folder
as a shared drive under my computer. I enhanced this by moving the
target of my documents on the windows side to the documents folder of
my home folder on the mac. That means no copying and pasting is
required between my documents under windows and /users/rico/documents
on my mac.
Hope this helps,
erik burggraaf
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On 29-Jul-08, at 11:32 AM, Tiffany D wrote:
Geia sas,
So I've decided to go with Fusion rather than Bootcamp. A very
knowledgible friend told me it was a better bet. However, he's
familiar only with Windows and not Mac. So how accessible is Fusion
on the mac in general? Can I have a shared folder and move files
between the two systems like he said? What kinds of drivers will I
need to get so that Windows will recognise the keys on my Mac? If
Fusion isn't the best option for vmware, then what is?
Thanks,
Tiffanitsa
