{"id":114,"date":"2008-01-12T16:09:20","date_gmt":"2008-01-12T06:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/01\/12\/vmware-review-2\/"},"modified":"2008-01-31T11:07:15","modified_gmt":"2008-01-31T01:07:15","slug":"vmware-review-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/2008\/vmware-review-2\/","title":{"rendered":"VMware Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

VMware screen shot 1<\/a>
\nAfter 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.<\/p>\n

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…<\/p>\n

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!<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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. <\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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