Using Vista With VMWare Fusion

Hello everyone, I just bought VMWare and Vista, but the mac geniuses told me there are some problems with running vita and that I'm better off running XP. What kind of problems occur? Is it indeed better yo run XP. I really need vista to run office applications for me or play windows games. Thanks very much.

You will find the VM Fusion forums here. The Apple Discussions do not provide third-party product support.

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yes, I think you are right, but I used virtual box in the past, and had no problem with the LG software, so it has also to do wit VMWare Fusion I think.
Never the less we still don't have a solution :-)

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Is anyone running Fusion with Vista on a Mac Mini? How is the performance..

I've used WinXP with Fusion on a MacMini and it was fine (but faster in BootCamp). I'm currently running Vista Business on a MacBook Pro in Parallels and while it isn't slow, it certainly is slower than in BootCamp. I expect Fusion would run Vista a bit faster - Fusion does tend to be a bit faster than Parallels but Parallels seems to get along better than Fusion with one of the applications I'm using.
There are advantages to BootCamp and BC isn't incompatible with virtualization. I suggest that you go ahead and install Vista in BootCamp. If you haven't already bought Fusion, download the demo and see how it runs using the BootCamp installation and compare that to BootCamp itself. Then decide.

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If you have accidentally purchased the wrong version of Vista, you need to contact Microsoft. In general, retail versions of Vista Ultimate ship with both 32bit and 64bit versions. If you purchased Vista online and downloaded it from Microsoft, you can purchase DVD media for a nominal charge for just shipping and handling. The activation keys for both the 64bit and 32bit versions are the same. Regardless, Microsoft is your best bet for a resolution. If you are saying that you purchased a hard drive with Vista preinstalled, you may not be violating your license agreement with Microsoft. If the original owner has not used their original copy to install Vista on their computer (meaning the copy on the drive you purchased is the only copy which will be used). Again, you would need to contact Microsoft and provide them with your activation key.
There is no way to "downgrade" (it's not really a downgrade) from Vista 64 to 32. You would have to do a fresh install of Vista.

Problem with vmware fusion 3.1.3 after upgrade to Lion

Greetings,
I have some problems with my vmware fusion 3.1.1 after my update to OS X v10.7.
i used a MacBook pro 17'' half a year old.
I used VMWare Fusion 3.1.3 and bootcamp to. I have make no backup bevore i upgrade.
The path of my virtual machine couldn't be found and so the virtual maschine didn't start after this upgrade.
I hope that i musn't reinstall my virtual Windows 7 machine.
I'am searching for a resulution and found this:
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=display KC&externalId=1003483
Cannot open the disk '/Users/<User Name>/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/Virtual Machines/Boot Camp/dev/disk0s3/Boot Camp partition.vmwarevm/Boot Camp partition.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on.
But i would save the virtual machine bevor i reinstall VMWare Fusion 3.1.3.
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Greetings from Germany
Kim

According to: http://roaringapps.com/app:61 Version 3.1.3 has issues with Lion. There is a 2011 beta that works better.

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I want to share my iTunes library on the Mac side of my MacBook Pro with the Windows VMware Fusion machine. I'm hoping to just point the Windows side to my shared Mac iTunes folder. I can see the folder (under Edit...Preferences...Advanced - it shows up as Z:\Music\iTunes) but haven't been able to have the actual songs show up in the Music Library on my Windows iTunes.
Is anyone else doing this?

There is a separate Windows forum in the Discussions where your question should probably be posted because it has nothing to do with the Finder and Dock.
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Need Help Cloning Old Windows XP to Mac with VMWare Fusion

Hello I'm new to the forums and I have been searching all over for a good answer on how to do this.
I have a ton of applications, docs, etc. on my old windows xp machine that I need and I am looking for a way to clone the drive it to my mac that is using VMWare Fusion. I have an external hard drive and have tried acronis true image but apparently that doesnt work. So I am looking for a good step by step process on how to do this.
Also later I want to clone the same windows xp drive to another mac that is using boot camp. will that be the same?
Thanks

The easiest way would be to put the PC hard drive into an external enclosure and use Disk Utility or a similar tool to create a disk image file that you can copy to the Mac. You may be able to read the PC disk image format and get VMWare to read the resulting image.
Even if you make it that far, I don't think you will be able to get Windows to use it as a boot drive. You will have much more success just creating a new disk image and reinstalling everything with the correct drivers. Then just copy your documents back over using more traditional methods.

Bootcamp partition restriction with vmware fusion

I have a 2 TB hard drive on my iMac that I was going to use to install windows. Using bootcamp, all went well. I put Vmware Fusion on and it worked well. Later I thought it might be nice to have 2 partitions on this hard drive so I re-partitioned the hard drive (not using bootcamp) and then installed windows, again no problem. The problem occurs when I then put on Vmware Fusion. Seems that program is very sensitive to the bootcamp created partition and to use any other program causes Vmware Fusion to fail. Doing some research, I thought I read that bootcamp will ONLY create one partition, no option for two partitions. My question is: Am I reading this correctly? Can bootcamp only make one partition? Is there a hack around this? I hate having a 2 TB hard drive with only one partition.

Hi again,
Boot Camp is a (very limited) utility for creating a non-mac partition on a Mac volume (by Apple). That's why it'll allow to create only 1 partition on a Mac OS hard drive.
This has to be on the HD where there is Mac OS X already - so you can't use BootCamp on your 2nd HD.
If you install 2nd macOS on the 2TB HD, start from there & then partition it with BC, then you should be able to start a bootcamped windows from there.
VMware doesn't have to be used with the help of BootCamp - I have both Parallels & VMware installed without the BootCamp.
As a matter of fact you can install Parallels & VMware from an .iso image (which you can't use with BC) - but Windows has to be installed the same way as with BS = it will take ± 1hour to install.
Also - you can store the resulting 'file' (which in my case I'm storing on my external 'My Book' 2TB hard drive) on any HD which is connected to your iMac.
The 'file' is stored as 'Windows 7.vmwarevm' - my is 13Gb actual size but with-in the win7 I have on it the size is = 40Gb {Local Disc (C:)}.
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Desperate for a little help with VMware Fusion tools

I tried the Fusion discussions group on this question but got nothing, so please don't tell me to try there; I already have.
I am using VMare Fusion 2.0.6 on my MacBook running 10.6.4; Windows OS is XP Home edition, SP3
I find more and more applications that previously did not work well in OSX are now running nicely on my MacBook (i.e., various applications from Garmin) and that I rarely boot up in Windows.
However, not long ago I did boot up in Windows and saw the alert, “VMware tools is out of date. Choose the virtual Machine > Install VMwre Toold Menu.” I did so and it failed, miserably. I lost tools completely, everything was a bloody mess.
I looked for help/a solution on the VMware site, found it, but it was beyond my capability. I simply could not figure out how to do what it was directing me to do.
I moved my Virtual Machine folder from a backup of my MacBook back to the MacBook; I am back to a point where all is well but I am also, naturally, getting the “VMware tools is out of date. Choose the virtual Machine . Install VMwre Toold Menu.”
When I choose "Virtual Machine . Install VMwre Toold Menu", I get this alert: You cannot install the VMware Tools package until the guest operating system is running. If your guest operating system is not running, choose cancel and install the VMware Tools Package later.
Isn't the "guest operating system" OSX on my MacBook? Well of course it's running; how the heck could you be running Fusion if OSX isn't running? There must be something here I just don't understand.
Does some kind soul have the time and patience to explain to me what I am obviously missing here so I can get on with it and update VMware Tools?
Many, many thanks if someone can

OK, here's the rest of the story.
I followed the above instructions, sort of...
Removed Tools as directed.
A restart was required to finish the removal.
Restarted, went to Virtual Machine > Install VMware Tools package and got the, for me, dreaded - Warning, you cannot install the VMware Tools package unless the guest operating system is running, etc., so I clicked on Cancel.
I also got the Found New Hardware Wizard, which I cancelled out of.
I went to Virtual Machine > CD/DVD > Choose a disk image and navigated to "/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/isoimages/windows.iso" as I was directed, clicked on Open, and nothing happened.
In Windows, I then went to the CD/DVD drive, to run the setup.exe manually.
Among the choices there I found both VMware Tools and VMware Tools 64 and forgot I was told to run setup.exe. I asked again and was told to run VMware Tools. I did so and that fixed it.
Later, I was told that I should have chosen setup.exe NOT the VMware Tools.msi, but that since setup.exe calls the VMware Tools.msi it's probably a moot issue as long as I received a message that VMware Tools were successfully installed.
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I'm having problems connecting to my Time Capsule's hard drive with Windows through VMware Fusion. I have Windows installed with Boot Camp, and use Fusion to run my Boot Camp partition virtually. When booting natively(Boot Camp), Windows can connect to the Time Capsule hard drive without any problems. However, when using Fusion, I get the following error message when trying to connect to the Time Capsule hard drive:
+Unknown user, incorrect password, or login disabled. Please retype the login information or contact the disk's administrator(67)+
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Help with VMware Fusion please!

Hello. I have purchased the full version of VMware Fusion 1.1.2 and installed it on my MacBook running Mac OS X 10.5.2. I also have Windows XP SP2 installed via Boot Camp, which works fine. When I open VMware Fusion, in the list box labelled "Virtual Machines:", there is one virtual machine listed -- "Boot Camp partition", which is obviously the virtual machine I want to run.
Here's the problem -- when I click on it and hit the "Run" button, a dialog box comes up with a progress bar that says it is preparing my computer for the virtual machine or something like that and that this will only happen once. It asks me to put in my administrator password, and after I do, an error message comes up that says: "A failure occurred during processing. An unknown error occurred." -- or something along those lines. This was before I updated to 1.1.2. Now, having updated it to 1.1.2, when I try to run the Virtual Machine, I get a different error. This time it comes up before I'm asked to enter my administrator password, and this time it says: "Could not create virtual disk for your Boot Camp virtual machine."
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-- Tron

All the information you need is in the FAQs and answered on VMware Fusion
http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/desktop/fusion

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It's not a big concern, apparantly the assocaition what program opens that file when you click on it is off kilter.
It's surely a VMFusion issue as they tweak things a bit in OS X as to be able to merge OSX and the guest operating together for a more seamless experience.
Perhaps you opened the file once in Safari in VMFusion and now it has that association, or when there was a menu selection you picked the wrong one by accident.
Register on get on the VM forums and post your question there and they can assist, it's a easy fix but it escapes me.
I run VMFusion too and noticed this ability once when I had OS's merged, but I don't merge operating systems anymore, rather I prefer to keep each one seperate.
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Hello,
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