{"id":116,"date":"2007-12-06T21:11:01","date_gmt":"2007-12-06T11:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/12\/06\/vmware-review\/"},"modified":"2008-01-01T20:23:24","modified_gmt":"2008-01-01T10:23:24","slug":"vmware-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/2007\/vmware-review\/","title":{"rendered":"VMware Fusion Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I can&#8217;t completely stop using Windows based programs so I have been trying SWSoft Parallels and VMWare Fusion to run Windows XP on my new MacBook.  What I&#8217;m doing is generally called virtualization. <\/p>\n<p>For the non-techies it means that I have Windows XP running along side or within Mac OS X Leopard.  It runs like an application under OS X with all the functionality you&#8217;d expect from Windows XP.  I also created a shared drive so both operating systems can use the same files if needed.  The shared drive uses the OS X file system so no need to format.<\/p>\n<p>In the end I chose VMWare Fusion because it seemed to work as well if not with a tad more polish than Parallels.  The price was the same.<\/p>\n<p>So far having the two run simultaneously has been fantastic.  VMWare sets up everything needed to windows to work, including drivers for the monitor, sound card, network both wireless and wired.  I didn&#8217;t need to put in new driver disks or anything &#8211; it simply worked!<\/p>\n<p>All I need to do now is to install all the programs I used under XP and everything will be fine again.<\/p>\n<p>I could have used Apple&#8217;s Boot Camp but that means I have to boot the computer with XP and I didn&#8217;t want to partition my hard drive or not be able to switch between Operating systems.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/vmware_osxnxp.jpg' title='VMware OSX Leopard and XP Home'><img src='http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/vmware_osxnxp.jpg' alt='VMware OSX Leopard and XP Home' \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I can&#8217;t completely stop using Windows based programs so I have been trying SWSoft Parallels and VMWare Fusion to run Windows XP on my new MacBook. What I&#8217;m doing is generally called virtualization. For the non-techies it means that I have Windows XP running along side or within Mac OS X Leopard. It runs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple-computers","category-computers","category-vmware-fusion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dixonarchive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}