Hi,
Tiffany asked specifically about running Fusion with Bootcamp. You
may have set up Bootcamp in a separate partition as Everett did, in
order to take advantage of the full resources of your system in the
case of memory intensive programs. Having Windows and Mac OS X on
separate partitions means that you have two different systems that you
can boot up. If you then virtualize your Bootcamp installation under
Fusion, you have the option of either running Bootcamp with the full
resources of your Computer, but requiring that you boot into it from
its separate partition at startup, or you can run Bootcamp under the
Virtual Environment of Fusion, with no need to shutdown your Mac in
order to shift over to Windows, but sharing memory resources. This is
actually a good way to decide whether the performance difference
between using Bootcamp in the Virtual environment and using Bootcamp
in its separate partition is great enough to warrant keeping Bootcamp
on your machine. It's a particularly good idea, if you're trying to
run Vista instead of Windows XP -- where the performance demands can
be more substantial, and where you might never choose to run Windows
Vista with your particular software in a virtual environment.
If you do decide that the Windows performance in the Virtual, shared-
resource environment is close enough to the performance in the
separate partition to warrant taking advantage of the convenience of
easily switching between Windows and Mac operating system, you can
decide to blow away the Bootcamp partition (after backing it up), and
only work with Bootcamp virtualized under Fusion. An advantage of
this mode is that, should any viruses or malware corrupt the Windows
side, you can easily blow away the corrupted virtual machine
installation and replace it with an uninfected version from a Time
Machine backup. Your files on the Mac side would be unaffected.
HTH
Cheers,
Esther
On Jan 21, 2009, at 12:04 PM, E.J. Zufelt wrote:
Good afternoon,
One good reason to run Windows using bootcamp is so that you can
decide which OS to load when the computer starts. Perhaps you don't
have a lot of memory and you want to run a memory intensive program
in Windows, using bootcamp will not load OS X, saving you some memory.
But, if you want access to that same installation of Windows while
OS X is running you can still get to it with Fusion.
Another reason is that even if you never load Windows alone at
startup, it is still there incase something happens to your OS X
install to make it unusable.
HTH,
Everett
On 21-Jan-09, at 5:29 PM, Tiffany D wrote:
I'm confused. why would you run Fusion with Bootcamp? I thought you
only needed Fusion to run Windows? Also, how well does NVDA or Hal
work under Fusion?
