Running Vmware fusion 6

I have a 13-inch, Early 2011 model upgraded to 8GB ram DDR3 but its running very slow, Im running 2 virtual machines (1) MS 2008 server R2 (2) MS 2012 server R2. They both have been allocated 2GB of ram each but when run simultaneously system comes to a hault and consumes up way more memory then allocated. My friends on the other hand using an i5processor and 6GB ram on a pc laptop can run 2 virtual machines that to MS 2012 server r2 with SQL server 2012 64bit running without an issue; but in mac tsk tsk tsk.....

The difference is that you're running 2 virtual machines inside an emulation program. The Mac OS is already using resources for its own functions, so essentially you're running 3 machines. In addition, he's running server and SQL server where you're running 2 servers.

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I have to repair my disk by booting with command-R at least twice a week. The disk gets corrupted and peformance goes down the toilet.
I have finally isolated that it happens only after I am have run VMWare Fusion 3.1.3. Whether I leave it open or suspend the VM doesn't matter. Of course the solution from VMWare was "pay for an upgrade to Vmware 4", but that is not in the cards for me.
Anyone have similar issues or problems.
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Tony Politano wrote:
Sorry, I should have been clearer on the VMware response. 3.1.3 is the lowest version they run on Lion and should work (minus the bells and whistles of 4), but I think he was just trying to upsell me 4.
Unfortunately, no. While the initial response from VMware was the release of the 3.1.3 update, it was quickly determined from all the reports that people were still experiencing issues with 3.1.3 on Lion. (I suspect it became more prevelant after the 10.7.1 and 10.7.2 updates. For the record, I did not have an issue with 3.1.3 on Lion, but I upgraded to Fusion4 before 10.7.1 came out.) While not everyone experienced an issue with 3.1.3 on Lion, there were enough reports coming in that VMware has pretty much stopped saying 3.1.3 is ok on Lion. But old webpages with outdated info still live on in Google, etc.
On a brighter note, VMware dropped the price of Fusion. Fusion3 was $70 when it was initially released. Fusion4 is $50. So from that point of view, VMware is give you $20 off.

I'm running VMWare Fusion, and will need to install MS Project. Do I need Microsoft Office as well to run MS Project?

I'm running VMWare Fusion, and will need to install MS Project. Do I also need to install Microsoft Office to run MS Project? I already have MS Project for MAC.

Microsoft Office is typically a separate product from Project. You should not have to install Office to get Project.

Do Not Run VMWare Fusion 2 with XP While Installing 2.1

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After turning off VMWare, I was able to restore the phone to 2.1 successfully.

Must be an isolated case because I just updated my iPhone to 2.1 while running VMWare Fusion 2 (beta) running XP and experienced no problems (upgrade experience was excellent!).

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I have a copy of WMWare Fusion and am about to install windows. My question when setting up VMWare Fusion's Virtual Machine... is do i place everything on a bootcamp disc/partition?
I'm installing XP Home Edition (store was out of professional version, just testing websites here).
Does that question even make sense?

Hi,
BootCamp does only allow you make one real Windows partition in which you can install either XP or Vista.
There are some tricks that let you make three partition (one OSX and two for Windows), but it's not an easy task.
See here: http://www.windowsonthemac.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=2
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Simply start a new Virtual Machine and install Vista.
Stefan

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My iMac desktop and McBook Air laptop run on Mavericks. The laptop also runs Windows 7 via VM Ware Fusion. Can I transfer this capability to my McBook Air, so I can run the same plus the Windows programs on my laptop?

Thanks Kappy, but I should add that my desktop runs VMWare Fusion and Windows 7. My laptop and desktop basic operating systems are Mavericks. When I travel, I take my laptop with me. My desktop runs a Windows investment program I like, and I'd like to be able to use this program in my laptop when I'm on the road. VM Ware said I could do this, but would have to make and then transfer a "file" of the programs in question. How would this be done, since it would involve 3 files: Fusion, Windows 7 and the investment program? Maybe Apple should do this at the genius bar? Appreciate any comments...Thanks again, Patrick

Has anyone had success in running Bootcamp along side vmware Fusion?

The only program I need windows for is Autodesk REVIT (A 3D CAD House modeling program) I use my mac for everything else.
REVIT takes up alot of memory and needs a decent video card to run well. When I tried using bootcamp, the program (REVIT) ran smoother than any windows platform we had, but I had no access to any of my mac programs without shutting down and rebooting.
I tried running vmware fusion and starting my bootcamp partition but everytime I switched from bootcamp to fusion, my windows said I had some major hardware changes and I needed to re-register my windows license. the license issue was also occuring with REVIT.
I'm wondering if anyone else has had these problems. I am willing to reinstall my windows partition to make it so I can switch from FUSION to BOOTCAMP smoothly. I use BOOTCAMP when I am in crunch mode and FUSION when I want to use my mac applications the same time as REVIT.
Any help would be appreciated. THANKS

I haven't had any trouble with Fusion and Boot Camp. I think activation does need to occur once on each side (once in Fusion and once in Boot Camp). Windows use the MAC address of your NIC to determine the hardware, and Fusion generates a MAC for the the virtual NIC that is obviously different from the MAC of your actual NIC in your Mac.
I bought MacDrive so that I could have access to my HFS partition of my hard drive when booted into Windows. The product works great, but also complains about activation when run in Fusion. MacDrive doesn't seem to want to stay activated in both Fusion and Boot Camp at the same time, so I leave it activated via Boot Camp and not activated for Fusion, since I can use Shared Folders instead. (that and it still seems to work anyway).
What did you mean by "crunch mode"? On a deadline? Is that because your software is too slow when running XP with Fusion? It seems like running XP through Fusion is the way to go for you 97% of the time, so I would worry about getting your CAD software going in Fusion and not worry so much about Boot Camp.
Best of luck.

HT2431 How can I best run old CDs written for Mac OS 9 (Classic)on a MacBook Pro with OS 10.7 with VMware Fusion

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MacBook Pros & OS X Lion don't support classic operation.
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VMware Fusion v4 on MacBook Pro 17 vs. MacBook Air

Hello everybody,
I have a problem with my early 2011 MacBook Pro 17'' when running VMware Fusion v4 Trial - both the VM as well as my MBP are running annoyingly slow when I start up a VM. Switching from the VM to a Mac app takes what seems an eternity. When setting up an OS in the VM, the Mac becomes almost unresponsive. This applies to VMs running Windows 7, Windows XP, Mac OS Lion.
I just can't believe that the MBP is not powerful enough to operate on Lion OS while running a VM at the same time. I have experimented giving the VM 1,5GB RAM and 2GB RAM - doesn't make a difference.
VWware slows my Mac down so much that both the Mac and the VM become unusable.
Same thing happened when I installed the Parallels 7 Trial.
I don't believe that the Mac has any hardware issue - it performs satisfyingly and is as fast as you'd expect from a current model, when not running any virtualization app.
And here comes the real catch now: on my mid 2011 MacBook Air - which has a slightly slower CPU - VMware is blazingly fast and I can use Mac OS in parallel without hardly noticing that the VM is running.
Yes, I am aware that because of the SSD the overall impression makes the MBA probably appear a lot snappier, but then again it has only 2 cores as opposed to the MBP's 4 cores. However, I had absolutely no issues running VMware Fusion v3 when I was still on Snow Leopard with my MBP17.
So the machine can't be the problem, it was running fine before Lion with VM application, but the VM software is doing fine on a MBA, so the only two explanations left that I have are: the combination must be the problem (MBP17 + VM) or the MBP17 has some funny setting that I am not aware of which slows it down that much.
Does anyone experience similar problems?
Any solution for performance issues that anyone is aware of?
Help greatly appreciated

Thanks a lot! Tried what you suggested and it actually seemed to improve VMware Fusion v4 in the beginning but I soon ended up with an estimated 30% of the performance for both the VM and the Mac.
Finally I tought - hey, the whole system (physical hardware and the VM) always becomes slow when there's acutal disk access... so I checked the disk in Disk Utility - and there it was: it needed repair. So I rebooted from an install disk and repaired my MacIntosh Hard Disk and there you go: MUCH better.
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Problem solved

Removing items from startup - particulary VMware Fusion network settings.

Hi Folks, as I'm semi new to MAC stuff I was posting in another thread and looking at my console logs, one of which I found was the below.
I did run VMware Fusion beta for windows access for a while but deleted it ages ago. However the logs show the following. (being a windows user previously ,anything thats not needed I never liked starting up on startup!)
Can I remove it somehow? I'm experiencing some bizarre issues and found this in the process.
Many Thanks
Ian
19/09/2008 12:28:31 com.vmware.launchd.vmware[39] VMware Fusion 89933: Starting VMware Fusion:
19/09/2008 12:28:31 com.vmware.launchd.vmware[39] kextload serialization lock busy; sleeping (89 retries left)
19/09/2008 12:28:34 com.vmware.launchd.vmware[39] kextload: /Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/kexts/vmmon.kext loaded successfully
19/09/2008 12:28:35 com.vmware.launchd.vmware[39] kextload: /Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/kexts/vmci.kext loaded successfully
19/09/2008 12:28:35 com.vmware.launchd.vmware[39] kextload: /Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/kexts/vmioplug.kext loaded successfully
19/09/2008 12:28:35 com.vmware.launchd.vmware[39] kextload: /Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/kexts/vmnet.kext loaded successfully
19/09/2008 12:28:35 com.vmware.launchd.vmware[39] Internet Software Consortium DHCP Server 2.0
19/09/2008 12:28:35 com.vmware.launchd.vmware[39] Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The Internet Software Consortium.
19/09/2008 12:28:35 com.vmware.launchd.vmware[39] All rights reserved.
19/09/2008 12:28:35 com.vmware.launchd.vmware[39] Please contribute if you find this software useful.
19/09/2008 12:28:35 com.vmware.launchd.vmware[39] For info, please visit http://www.********.org/dhcp-contrib.html
19/09/2008 12:28:35 com.vmware.launchd.vmware[39] Configured subnet: 192.168.1.0
19/09/2008 12:28:35 com.vmware.launchd.vmware[39] Setting vmnet-dhcp IP address: 192.168.1.254
19/09/2008 12:28:35 com.vmware.launchd.vmware[39] Opened:
19/09/2008 12:28:35 com.vmware.launchd.vmware[39] Recving on VNet/vmnet8/192.168.1.0
19/09/2008 12:28:35 com.vmware.launchd.vmware[39] Sending on VNet/vmnet8/192.168.1.0
19/09/2008 12:28:36 com.vmware.launchd.vmware[39] Internet Software Consortium DHCP Server 2.0
19/09/2008 12:28:36 com.vmware.launchd.vmware[39] Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The Internet Software Consortium.
19/09/2008 12:28:36 com.vmware.launchd.vmware[39] All rights reserved.
19/09/2008 12:28:36 com.vmware.launchd.vmware[39] Please contribute if you find this software useful.
19/09/2008 12:28:36 com.vmware.launchd.vmware[39] For info, please visit http://www.********.org/dhcp-contrib.html
19/09/2008 12:28:37 com.vmware.launchd.vmware[39] Configured subnet: 192.168.107.0
19/09/2008 12:28:37 com.vmware.launchd.vmware[39] Setting vmnet-dhcp IP address: 192.168.107.254
19/09/2008 12:28:37 com.vmware.launchd.vmware[39] Opened:
19/09/2008 12:28:37 com.vmware.launchd.vmware[39] Recving on VNet/vmnet1/192.168.107.0
19/09/2008 12:28:37 com.vmware.launchd.vmware[39] Sending on VNet/vmnet1/192.168.107.0
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I don't know about VMware Fusion, but lots of applications install a startup item in +System Preferences > Accounts > (your account) > Login Items+. If there is something there that looks related to Fusion, then remove it.
But looking at the logs shows com.vmware.launchd.vmware. Searching for this on Google, returns another Apple Discussions thread. It looks like the VMware process was removed and the problem was solved with the 10.5.5 Leopard update.

Vmware fusion to hyper-v on Windows 8

I am trying to figure out if I can convert my VMWare Fusion images to Hyper-V images. I want to move from my Mac OS X running VMWare Fusion to Windows 8 running Hyper-V, I want to take my VMs with me. Is there a tool or method to do that. The only references
I have found are out of date.
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We did that as well. Here is what I found out from an internal Cisco resource.
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I think your i5 is 2-cores with 4-threads (the name virtual core for HT is just a way to get 20-35% more per physical core).
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