Bootcamp and VMWare Fusion

I am confused about Bootcamp and Fusion. I installed XP to Bootcamp. Then I installed Fusion and installed XP there (it has been a while and I have forgotten the details). I always run XP from Fusion. It works fine. Recently I decided to boot into XP directly. When XP came up it told me it wasn't activated. So I went back to OS X and then Fusion.
1) Do I have two separate XP installations? Or just two different entry points to the same installation?
2) If I have two installations can I just delete the Bootcamp partition?
3) How would I go about activating the Bootcamp XP installation?
Thank you

If you want, there is Fusion VMware forum. But, you didn't tell Fusion to use the Boot Camp copy/version so while you could have shared one activation key for both, you can't have two separate the way you do now.
If you are happy with Fusion and don't really need the other (better for gaming and more hardware intensive programs) then use Boot Camp Assistant and regain back the partition, don't remove the partition with Disk Utility.

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You can only install Windows from a USB in one of these computers:
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- MacBook Air.
- Mac mini (Mid 2010 and newer).
- iMac (Late 2012).
Your Mac doesn't support the Windows installation through a USB drive. However, you have installed Windows through a USB drive. What did you do?
You did an EFI installation (or a native installation). Apple doesn't support this option because of the huge number of problems it gives, and you have probably erased OS X (or you erased the Windows partition that Boot Camp created, both possibilities). The error you mentioned in 3) was probably that the Windows installer detected that you have a MBR disk instead of a GPT one, and you erased everything.
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Rosetta is slow on startup and needs more memory. If you only have 1GB, might want more. Whether to run VMware or Office, 2GB is more comfortable. Your MacBook Pro should be able to run Office Mac or OpenOffice/NeoOffice.
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Using OEM copy is fine and can save quite a bit, as long as it is SP2 and - of course - works - though I would never buy it on ebay given you can get it from Newegg, Amazon etc. I am a paranoid skeptic of what and where software I install came from today.
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I'm having a hard time figure out what's the best virtual machine to install on my MacBook Pro 2.4 Ghz. I don't like Bootcamp because it requires the reboot. I also looked at CrossOver but the performance was pretty bad so I removed it. I'm now looking at Parallel desktop and VMWare fusion. Can anyone please give me an advice, thanks.

I am using Parallels without problems. I have two XP machines set up, one where I run a couple of Access databases and a family tree database, and another that I use for testing different settings for student lab exercises etc. I also have a Linux Ubuntu machine set up, again for testing settings. The Ubuntu is not quite as seamless as the XP - I can't for example drag files between them.
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Is it possible?
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Sorry for my english.
Thank U.

Of course. Also, VMware Fusion allows you to virtualize your Boot Camp partition, so you don't have to install Windows 7 twice.
Your computer only supports 64-bit Windows 7 and 8 versions, so install Windows 7 by following Apple's steps > http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/boot_camp_install-setup_10.8.pdf You should download the Windows support software from Boot Camp Assistant or from the Apple site, so you can install it after finishing the Windows installation.
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Sorry - we're users here, just like you, and some questions just get lost sometimes.
The fastest hardware you can buy, the easier you'll be able to run Windows. If you use Boot Camp to run Windows (7, 8 or 8.1) the machine will run at it's best. If you want to run Windows alongside the Mac OS, you'll need to use a VM application (I use Parallels - I've tried VMwareFusion but like Parallels better and it just works best for me).
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The Retina machine with the NVIDIA GPU will be the fastest - it's a faster processor and has more VRAM.
Any VM is going to use resources - how much RAM, for example, is up to you. I have 16 GB of RAM and 8GB dedicated to Parallels/Windows 7 Pro.
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From a MAC newbie running an iMac I7, 8GB, 1TB
Can some of the experts out they give me a suggestion on using Bootcamp vs. VMWare to run Windows games and applications. I like the idea of running the Windows applications while SL is also running (VMWare solution?) but not sure if this would have problems that bootcamp would not. Games would be few but would include things such as L4D2 and others. Windows could be any version suggested.

FlaParrotHead wrote:
From a MAC newbie running an iMac I7, 8GB, 1TB
Can some of the experts out they give me a suggestion on using Bootcamp vs. VMWare to run Windows games and applications. I like the idea of running the Windows applications while SL is also running (VMWare solution?) but not sure if this would have problems that bootcamp would not. Games would be few but would include things such as L4D2 and others. Windows could be any version suggested.
It really depends on what you want to achieve.
Bootcamp is a full Windows environment running natively. Which means you cannot access your OSX programs. If you have to use both set of programs, you'll be switching a lot. However, since it's running native instead of emulated it will perform a lot better when you're doing CPU/GPU-heavy tasks.
VMWare is emulated into your OSX environment. You'll be running two operating systems at the same time. This means you can access that one Windows program you'll need during your usual OSX usertime, but heavy programs like games will run poorly due to having massive overhead on everything the Windows environment has to calculate.
So basically, you really need to decide how you will be using your Windows environment!
As a side note: I don't know about VMWare, but there's also Parallels Desktop, which can run your bootcamp-Windows partition emulated into OSX. You could access all your programs through Parallels (it's the same concept as VMWare) and when you want to play a game, or do heavy calculating, you can reboot into the same environment but through Bootcamp (thus native) and do what you want to do.
--Edit
According to this url: [http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/migrate.html#c169967]
You can make VMWare create an image of your Bootcamp partition. I don't think vmware can actually run the Bootcamp partition emulated.
According to this url: [http://www.askdavetaylor.com/usewinxp_boot_camp_partition_inparallels.html]
You can make Parallels emulate your bootcamp partition, do your things, and reboot to Windows and still have it working.
So if you intend to combine both Bootcamp and emulation, my bet would be on Parallels.
However this is purely on what I can find online, I may as well be wrong on either VMWare or Parallels.
Hope this was helpful, eventhough it's not a clear answer
Message was edited by: Roald Hoolwerf

Is it still impossible to do bootcamp and VMWare or Parallels?

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I've also used VM ware, but had a couple of bad experiences where I lost my virtual machine and all the data on it. I do backups of course, but it was still really inconvient. Plus the driver situation when doing the virtual thing rather than bootcamp just wasn't quite there yet--another reason to use bootcamp. So for the past 2 - 3 years I've just been resigned to using bootcamp.
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Hey Bob,
Thanks for the information. My last experience was with VMWare 1 and I don't think this functionality was available then. I downloaded today version 4 and at this point I am running Win 7 within MacOS. Haven't tried rebooting to my bootcamp partition yet or printing or sharing, etc. If it works as advertised though I should be a happy camper.
The import option doesn't strike me as a good one for my situation. I have 500GB on my MBP and 120 GB allocated to my windows bootcamp partition. If I do the import option with VMWare I'd basically need another 120 GB of the total space and then I'd have two unsynchronized windows disks, one under bootcamp and the other under VMWare.
Running VMWare as a Mac application I can see it's a bit slower than running in bootcamp, but I expected that.
This is exciting stuff and I appreciate you taking the time to enlighten me.
Thanks

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