Man! That's a really cool tip about making a bootcamp partition and
then virtualizing it. Have you ever tried making a boot camp install
using an answer file? That was the biggest drawback of bootcamp
initially. I'm used to answer files by now and it felt like a step
backward getting some one to sit down and read the screen.
Best,
erik burggraaf
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On 29-Jul-08, at 1:21 PM, Steven M. Sawczyn wrote:
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
Certified Technician
Assistive Computing LTD Support and training
Sales department: 888-828-2445
Support and Training: 888-255-5194
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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
