VMware Review
Sat 12 Jan 2008Filed Under: Apple Computers, Computers, VMware Fusion
After my first few weeks with VMWare Fusion I have to say that this is a great piece of software. It works as advertised and I now have three Windows XP installations working on the MacBook. So far I have not had any system or program errors.
No, I haven’t breached any license rules (for those self righteous types). I have Three genuine XP discs! I bought one to upgrade from Windows 98 years ago on the old PC and realised I needed an entire new PC to make it work properly which I then didn’t use. The other from the PC I built for an ex-partner which was returned for obvious reasons and finally one from work. Anyway enough of the history…
The sad part is that when I copied the actual VMware Fusion file containing XP to the backup drive and ran it out of curiosity it also worked fine. So I wasted hours installing three versions on the Macbook!
Mind you installing the OS’s was a simple process of selection how much HD space you want that version to use and how much system memory.
VMware’s and the Macbook’s overall speed is excellent. In the time it takes to fully boot Windows Vista on a separate PC I had the Mac running with OSX booted and XP running at the same time.
It also allows you to run various non-Apple and Windows operating systems on your Apple Mac including the various versions of Linux and Novell Netware as I understand.
So far the only issue I have with Fusion is that it doesn’t seem to allocate Ctrl-‘select’ properly. Ctrl-Shift select works perfectly though.