VMWare Fusion 2 January 2009 Update 2
Mon 19 Jan 2009Filed Under: Apple Computers, Computers, VMware Fusion | Comments Off on VMWare Fusion 2 January 2009 Update 2
Cleaning up the place in readiness for a new year of work I stumbled on neated packed away system installation CD for past computers.. They where Windows 95 and Windows 98! What treasure – to me anyway. I had the best memories of fighting and occassionally winning the blue screen of death.
Anyway since the computers have long since passed away and they where full version CDs I tried to install them on the Macbook via VMWare. So this post is all about running and installing Windows 95 and Windows 98 using VMWare Fusion2!
What do you know? VMWare installs and runs Windows 95 as well as it ever did on on PC hardware… Must find any patches if they still exist. Mainly to get Winsock etc.. for modem and networking!
Likewise I installed and successfully ran Windows 98 in VMWare2. The only problem I had with this install and that for Windows 95 was that VMware tools did not automatically install so I had to do it manually. I was fortunate that I have a bootable CD that loads MS-DOS – shock!
There is only one more computer I recall having CDs for and that is for a Windows ME machine which is in the shed.
I will then try and dig it out along with all the ‘ancient’ software and games I bought over the years and hopefully try them out on the Macbook…
VMWare Fusion 2 January 2009 Update
Mon 5 Jan 2009Filed Under: Apple Computers, Computers, VMware Fusion | Comments Off on VMWare Fusion 2 January 2009 Update
Lots have happend since the last update. I installed the latest Fusion 2 software update called 2.0.1-128865. After installation the XP virtual machines worked even better than the last! No more sluggish performance – everything thing was fine in my world again.
The latest Fusion 2 upgrade clearly made a noticeable difference in terms of usability I recommend it to anyone.
However there is still one major upgrade I need to perfrom and that is the Windows XP SP3 upgrade. As far as I know people seem to have had problems with running VMWare and XP SP3.
Sure I can try the upgrade in a copy of the Virtual machine but I haven’t got the time time just yet to dedicate myself to the upgrade should something go wrong.
Besides I need something to write about next month!
VMWare Fusion 2 November 2008 Update
Mon 8 Dec 2008Filed Under: Apple Computers, Computers, VMware Fusion | Comments Off on VMWare Fusion 2 November 2008 Update
My day to day experience of Fusion has been mixed this month.
Version 2 while having quite a few new features for managing the virtual machine’s system settings and program graphics seems to be sluggish in performance and at one time hung – compared to the last version. I haven’t installed any new software on the machine so it seems like a bug of some sort.
There is a newer version (2.0.1) that has been released but I haven’t tried it yet. So next update I’ll probably have something further to say about it.