Hi, Well, as a matter of fact, I'm going to be trying this very soon. It's not actually my computer, or at least, it's not in my ownership, but I just have this urge to break computers when it arrives with the mail on a cold, Tuesday morning. So yep. I'll let you know how that goes if no one answers before then, but I'm sure it'll go smoothly.
Windows essentially does boot. In a sense, anyway. So the install would probably work. If not, the importing should take care of that problem for sure. Of course, you want to make sure you connect the device and allow your Virtual machine to take hold of it. This doesn't always happen automatically, though I believe you can configure VMWare Fusion to connect something automatically upon bootup when it detects it. Regards, Nic Mobile Me: [email protected] GoogleTalk: [email protected] Facebook Twitter Skype: Kvalme MSN Messenger: [email protected] Yahoo! Messenger: cin368 AIM: cincinster On May 26, 2010, at 1:00 AM, Mary Otten wrote: > Hello all, > Mac Mall is running a special on Fusion 3 today. One thing that intrigued me > about the description of this product is the statement that you can import > your entire windows pc to your Mac wirelessly or via a lan connection. It > claims you can use your windows devices and software, which is when my ears > picked up. I have a scanner that does not have Mac drivers, and I have K1000 > for scanning and ocr. And I also have Office 2003 and a screen reader. Now if > the next version of office for the Mac turns out to be vo-compatible, then > maybe losing out on Office 2003 won't be a big deal. But since there is no > scanning solution for the mac that meets my needs, I plan to keep using what > I have, but would love to consolidate everything onto the Mac. So, has > anybody actually done this importing of their windows system over to a Mac > and did your device drivers come along andlive happily ever after? Or did you > have to end up reinstalling device drivers? My scanner's driver does not > install in the usual way. that is, in order to install it, you must connect > the device, boot up the machine and let Windows do the rest, rather than > installing the drivers first. So I was thinking Fusion wouldn't work because > you don't actually boot Windows, as I understand it, thus the driver install > would quite probably not go well. Any experiences you care to relate would be > most welcome. > > mary > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
