Some of it depends on what your Mac has and how much of it you hand over
to vmware when you set up the virtual machine. I think XP can run pretty
well on 1GB RAM so if you have a 4GB Mac that should be fine. VMWare
will take its overhead and you'll still have space for OSX to do it's
thing. If you start to push the limits the Mac might start coming up low
on RAM and start to swap old stuff out to disk. This swap process can
really bog a machine down which might be what your friend was running into.
CB
On 11/7/13 8:56 PM, BBS wrote:
Hi Wayne. Unfortunately I’m not as lucky as you are. I’m using XP. Anyway, I
decided to take the plunge and upgrade to 6. Don’t know what my friend was
talking about though. It seems to be stable, no crashes or slow downs. Maybe he
was trying to run it under ML.
Shawn
Sent From My White Mac Book
On Nov 7, 2013, at 5:51 PM, wayne17a <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi I am running win 7 with vm fusion 5 and have no trouble
connecting to the internet and I am on mavericks
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Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2013 3:25 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Some Questions About Fusion 6
Hi sean,
I have fusion 6 here and it runs fast for me. I do have a ton of ram,
though-I maxed out my i mac at 16 g of ram.
As far as your xp not connecting to the internet in fusion 5, have you made
sure that your vm is sharing your internet connection?
Cait
On Nov 7, 2013, at 3:07 PM, BBS <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi all. I'm having a bit of a problem here. When I use Windows XP in
Fusion 5, it won't connect to the internet. Therefore, that tells me that I
might be forced into upgrading to Fusion 6. I do have some concerns about
that though. I heard something from a friend of mine that he tried using
Fusion 6 on his Mac Mini and he told me that it ran so slow because it needs
a lot of ram to run Windows properly. So I'm wondering since I can only put
4 gigs on this MacBook if upgrading to Fusion 6 is worth it. If not, what
should I do? I want Windows on here because this busy busy busy crap with
Skype on the Mac is getting unbearable. Thanks.
Shawn
Sent From My White Mac Book
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