VMware Fusion & Videos on XP

I just upgraded to 10.5.8 to enable 3D Graphics Acceleration in VMware Fusion 2.0.5 using XP. A problem still remains. I am and have been unable to view videos in XP for quite some time and the system upgrade did not correct that problem.
I have Adobe Flash Player 10 Active X installed and Java is up to date.
Anyone here have a fix for me?

Just because you have Flash player installed doesn't mean it will work. The videos in question may not be Flash videos. Regardless, please post questions regarding Fusion on the VMWare forums, as Apple discussion only provide support for Apple products:
http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/desktop/fusion

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Vmware fusion video drivers

I am running Mavericks on a Mac Mini 1012. Vmware Fusion 6 virtural machine running Windows 8.1 with Windows Media Center. When I run the Digital Cable Advisor in media center is states that my video card is not acceptable. Vmware uses an SVGA standard drive. Does anyone know how to change the driver to Intel 4000 HD so that I can watch Live TV?

What did they say at the VMware site? Virtual machines use virtual hardware so you will need to talk with the WMware gurus. VMware has nothing to do with Boot Camp, this discussion group.

VMWare Fusion and Parallels Desktop Benchmark Comparison

This is a quickie benchmark of VMWare Fusion and Parallels Desktop using Super PI, PC Mark 05, and Passmark.
VMWare Fusion 36932
Parallels Desktop 3094 Beta 2
Notes:
Both virtual machines were allocated with large 10+ GB virtual disks and 640MB of RAM. The VMWare CPU was configured with two processors. The Parallels CPU was configured with 1 (two is not available). VMWare reported the CPU as 1 physical, 2 logical processors running at 2.66 GHz while Parallels reported 1 physical, 1 logical processor running at 9.6 GHz (the combined speed of all four cores on the Mac Pro). The max observed CPU utilization in activity monitor when running under VMWare was 200% and max under Parallels was 173%.
I chose not to compare 1 VMWare CPU vs. 1 Parallels CPU. While Parallels does not support SMP or multithreaded processes on multiple processors the CPU utilization on the Mac went well above 1 core (173%). For this comparison, I wanted to see results of max processing based on what the two vendors have delivered, as opposed to benchmarking the underlying "virtual or hypervisor cpu" on a 1:1 basis. This explains why VMWare was 2x faster than Parallels on some CPU tests.
Both of these products are beta. VMWare is running in debug mode (can not be turned off in this beta).
Caveat emptor on these stats. This was an unscientific exercise to satisfy my curiosity. Some of the extraordinary differences are highlighted with <--.
Platform:
Mac Pro 2.66 GHz, 2GB RAM, Nvidia 7300GT
Disk 1 - OS X, 73GB Raptor
Disk 2 - dedicated disk where each virtual machine image was created separate from the OS or any OS-related virtual memory files.
VMWare and Parallels guest OS: Windows XP Professional, SP 2
Comparison Benchmrk
VMWare Fusion 36932 and Parallels Desktop 3094 Beta 2
Super PI Parallels VMWare
512K 8s 9s
1M 20s 21s
4M 1m 57s 2m 03s
PC Mark 05 Parallels VMWare
CPU Test Suite N/A N/A
Memory Test Suite N/A N/A
Graphics Test Suite N/A N/A
HDD Test Suite N/A N/A
HDD - XP Startup 5.0 MB/s 19.54 MB/s <--
Physics and 3D Test failed Test failed
Transparent Windows Test failed 69.99 Windows/s
3D - Pixel Shader Test failed Test failed
Web Page Rendering 3.58 Pages/s 2.34 Pages/s
File Decrypt 71.73 MB/s 67.05 MB/s
Graphics Memory - 64 Lines 179.92 FPS 111.73 FPS
HDD - General Usage 4.82 MB/s 42.01 MB/s <--
Multithread Test 1 / Audio Comp N/A N/A
Multithread Test 1 / Video Encoding Test failed Test failed
Multithread Test 2 / Text Edit 152.85 Pages/s 138.48 Pages/s
Multithread Test 2 / Image DeComp 5.91 MPixels/s 35.4 MPixels/s <--
Multithread Test 3 / File Comp 3.22 MB/s 6.03 MB/s
Multithread Test 3 / File Encrypt 19.0 MB/s 33.26 MB/s <--
Multithread Test 3 / HDD - Virus Scan 27.91 MB/s 25.49 MB/s
Multithread Test 3 / Mem Lat - Rnd 16MB 5.34 MAcc/s 6.63 MAcc/s
File Comp N/A N/A
File DeComp N/A N/A
File Encrypt N/A N/A
File Decrypt N/A N/A
Image DeComp N/A N/A
Audio Comp N/A N/A
Multithread Test 1 / File Comp N/A N/A
Multithread Test 1 / File Encrypt N/A N/A
Multithread Test 2 / File DeComp N/A N/A
Multithread Test 2 / File Decrypt N/A N/A
Multithread Test 2 / Audio DeComp N/A N/A
Multithread Test 2 / Image DeComp N/A N/A
Memory Read - 16 MB N/A N/A
Memory Read - 8 MB N/A N/A
Memory Read - 192 kB N/A N/A
Memory Read - 4 kB N/A N/A
Memory Write - 16 MB N/A N/A
Memory Write - 8 MB N/A N/A
Memory Write - 192 kB N/A N/A
Memory Write - 4 kB N/A N/A
Memory Copy - 16 MB N/A N/A
Memory Copy - 8 MB N/A N/A
Memory Copy - 192 kB N/A N/A
Memory Copy - 4 kB N/A N/A
Memory Lat - Rnd 16 MB N/A N/A
Memory Lat - Rnd 8 MB N/A N/A
Memory Lat - Rnd 192 kB N/A N/A
Memory Lat - Rnd 4 kB N/A N/A
Transparent Windows N/A N/A
Graphics Memory - 64 Lines N/A N/A
Graphics Memory - 128 Lines N/A N/A
WMV Video Playback N/A N/A
3D - Fill Rate Multi Texturing N/A N/A
3D - Polygon Throughput Multiple Lights N/A N/A
3D - Pixel Shader N/A N/A
3D - Vertex Shader N/A N/A
HDD - XP Startup N/A N/A
HDD - Application Loading N/A N/A
HDD - General Usage N/A N/A
HDD - Virus Scan N/A N/A
HDD - File Write N/A N/A
Processor Intel Core 2 9653 MHz Processor Unknown 2661 MHz
Physical / Logical CPUs "1 Physical, 1 Logical" "1 Physical, 2 Logical"
MultiCore 1 Processor Core Multicore 2 Processor Cores
HyperThreading N/A N/A
Graphics Card Generic VGA Generic VGA
Graphics Driver Parallels Video Driver VMWare SVGA II
Co-operative adapters No No
DirectX Version 9.0c 9.0c
System Memory 640 MB 640MB
Motherboard Manufacturer N/A Intel Corporation
Motherboard Model N/A 440BX Desktop Reference Platform
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Microsoft Windows XP
Passmark Parallels VMWare
CPU - Integer Math (MOPS) 112.35 230.31 <--
CPU - Floating Point Math (MOPS) 280.46 588.33 <--
CPU - Find Prime Numbers (OPS) 446.37 676.99 <--
CPU - SSE/3DNow! (MMPS) 2118.56 4737.13 <--
CPU - Comp (KB/s) 2994.16 5952.34 <--
CPU - Encrypt (MB/s) 18.09 36.27 <--
CPU - Image Rotation (IRPS) 598.21 1184.41 <--
CPU - String Sorting (TPS) 2118.81 3672.59 <--
Graphics 2D - Lines (TPS) 220.71 25.15 <--
Graphics 2D - Rectangles (TPS) 189.74 61.8 <--
Graphics 2D - Shapes (TPS) 39.54 13.71 <--
Graphics 2D - Fonts and Text (OPS) 190.39 75.88 <--
Graphics 2D - GUI (OPS) 439.77 63.72 <--
Memory - Allocate Small Block (MB/s) 2533.83 2526.21
Memory - Read Cached (MB/s) 1960.5 1906.27
Memory - Read Uncached (MB/s) 1871.79 1826.08
Memory - Write (MB/s) 1687.81 1545.43
Memory - Large RAM (OPS) 60.99 46.37
Disk - Sequential Read (MB/s) 102.11 76.45 <--
Disk - Sequential Write (MB/s) 58.33 50.9
Disk - Rnd Seek + RW (MB/s) 51.4 40.4
CPU Mark 711.08 1432.72 <--
2D Graphics Mark 743.31 176.5 <--
Memory Mark 599.94 580.38
Disk Mark 766.11 606.7
PassMark Rating 557.27 637.35<br>

Thanks for posting these numbers - it's an interesting comparison.
I would expect the final VMWare fusion performance numbers to be quite a bit better than that of Parallels - they have almost a decade's worth of experience more than the Parallels folks in this arena, and a much larger development team to boot.
Once VMWare Fusion is released to the public, I think that you'll see a clearer distinction between the two products. VMWare will continue to appeal to the professional customer, with a more robust feature set and corporate-friendly features (and a correspondingly higher price tag); Parallels will fall more into the consumer/VirtualPC-replacement market. It will be interesting to see how Parallels will be affected when (and if) VMWare player is ported to OS X.
Interesting about the Parallels performance stats on a native partition - looks like almost enough reason to avoid the bootcamp partition approach altogether. Sharing a native windows installation with a VM in parallels is a pretty scary situation in any case, as the two environments have entirely different hardware configurations. Do-able, but there is some black magic involved (if you want to see an example of what I mean, try to move a windows installation from one machine to another w/different hardware sometime - it ain't pretty); I wouldn't try this in a production scheme unless I had REALLY good backups.

VMware Fusion - Journaled External HDD using MacDrive or NTFS?

I plan to use VMware Fusion running XP Pro via a Bootcamp partition. Along with this I would like a dedicated external HDD for my windows work files (Premiere Pro etc). The trouble is, I'm not sure what way to go with the formatting of the external HDD.
Would I be better to run MacDrive on the Windows system and work off a Journaled format, or NTFS (with something like Paragon on the OS X side)?
I don't want to use FAT32 as I will be working with large video files (<4GB) on the windows side.
Has anyone had any experience with this?

I'm not really answering your question (sorry), but you can create a virtual hard drive from within VMware's interface. The file for the virtual hard drive can reside anywhere, including your external drive. It will start out small and grow up to the max size you specify when you create it. On the Windows side, it looks like a regular hard drive. In my case, my second drive mounts as the "E:" drive.
I find this useful, because the virtual drive does not take up my whole external drive. And the external drive can be formatted for Mac (HFS+) while Windows XP thinks the second drive is formatted for NTFS. In my case, the file for the virtual drive resides on an external drive that I uses for other Mac things.
Now, if you want to share data from both the Mac and Windows sides, instead of using a virtual hard drive (or a real hard drive), you can use WMware's Shared Folders feature to map a share point on the Mac side as a network drive on the Windows side. In my case, I have a folder in my Mac OS X user Documents folder mapped to drive Z: in Windows. Since it's not really going over a network, it is fast.
So if I use this drive in Windows, the files are immediately available in Mac OS X. If you access that folder in Mac OS X, the changes are immediately available in Windows. I can probably go the other way and connect from the Mac side to a share point on the Windows side, but I haven't figured that out yet.

VMware Fusion question - Multiple Monitors

I apologize if this is in the wrong area, but I am desperate for some help. I have also posted this same question in the VMware communities but I have not had any luck with anyone responding yet.
It seems that I am having an issue with my virtual machine (windows XP) viewing in full screen or unity across my multiple monitor setup on my Mac Pro. Every time I go to view in full screen or unity I get a VMware popup warning/error that reads:
The virtual machine "Windows XP Professional" is configured for a smaller display size than the one your Mac is currently using. VMware Fusion needs to shut down your virtual machine to enable support for your Mac's display size in Full Screen. Do you want to shut down this virtual machine now?
I have two options, one to shut down, or one to go into full screen. If I go into full screen, full screen works with the correct resolution and everything looks great except its only in the one monitor (not the multiple monitor). If I shut down and restart the virtual machine and try to go to full screen I get the same error.
The VMware tools have been installed and I did go to the view, use all displays in full screen opiton.
My current setup is a mac pro with 3 monitors using 2 NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Video Cards.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks

I found a link to a VMWare Knowledge Base entry about specifying video ram in Fusion 1. Maybe it is still true.
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=1 001876&sliceId=1&docTypeID=DTKB_11&dialogID=16580386&stateId=1%200%2016578530

Using VMWare Fusion for playing games

Hi all and I hope you can help.
I have a recent 17" MBP with 2GB of RAM and a Core 2 Duo and I am trying to get some decent game software running on it. To do this I have installed VMWare Fusion, XP Pro and Crysis.
My problem is, I can get the game to run but it is VERY choppy and unplayable.
I have tried various virtual settings, including using 1 and 2 processors, 512mb to 1.5gb RAM but never getting it to run properly.
I am not trying to run it full screen or anywhere near high settings and have allowed the game to scan the hardware to find it's optimal settings and still no luck.
I know Crysis is quite a heavy load but with the hardware in an MBP it should be able to run it without many problems.
Am I being too optimistic trying to run Crysis or are there a set of parameters that are optimised for doing this?

VMWare will also allow you to virtualize a boot camp partition.
The problem with virtualization and gaming is that, while you get direct CPU access and protected memory access, you do not get video access - so there is absolutely no video acceleration, it's all emulated or translated by the virtualizer.
You'll see a very minor CPU hit on anything that just using processor power or takes a lot of data (so long as you have enough physical RAM, and have enough RAM allocated to the virtual machine, to prevent disk swapping), but anything that needs video acceleration will suffer tremendously if it's virtualized.
In general, anything more than Solitare or Minesweeper, and you will want to use Bootcamp if there is no Mac OS X native version of the game (hooray for Blizzard, and all you other mac-native developers). I know the latest versions of VMWare and Parrallels all say they have new DirectX support, and Crossover has a version out just for gaming, but you'll disappoint yourself if you think these will do much more than just show the splash screen and a slide show for most games.
The good news is more game companies are starting to take Mac OS X seriously, and technologies such as Cider are helping developers port their code easier. But it's a long road, and the Macintosh has notoriously been spotty for gaming.

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.

10.4.11, VMware Fusion and Windows XP (Home Edition) works just fine

OK, so I'm through the installation of VMware Fusion and Windows XP (Home Edition) and I have to say that it was pretty much point and click as advertised. All network services seem to be working and I'm running both OS side-by-side with out a hitch.
Haven't put the system through any rigorous test yet, like VPN, network printing or rending large graphic files, but the installation, setup and normal operation went smoothly taking about an hour in total.
Machine: MacBook Pro, 1.8Ghz with 1G of RAM memory and dual monitors.
Host OS: MacOS 10.4.11

I now have installed XP Pro into a Boot Camp Partition. Basically point and shoot. Then while booted in XP I used PC Mover to migrate my old PC to the Boot Camp partition. With the exception of one program and my virus and firewall programs all went well, almost point and shoot. Then I installed VMWares Fusion and used my Boot Camp partition as the source. If you follow instructions from VMWare things work relatively problem free.
After posting questions on VMwares site about processing video and compiling DVDs in Windows using Fusion I decided that such processor intensive requirements are best handled in the Boot Camp (native) mode.
The biggest problem I have encountered is that Microsoft Office constantly asks to be reactivated when switching between Boot Camp startup and Fusion. No solution I know of, except not to use Office in Boot Camp Mode. Secondly XP Pro required a re-authorization from Microsoft so I could run it in both Boot Camp and Fusion modes. Obtaining the authorization (activation code) from Microsoft was not a problem.

Each time I use a USB,IPHOTO,DVD or VMware Fusion connection the desktop mouse pointer freezes regards Model Name:       Model Identifier:MacBookPro10.6.8, 2   Processor Name:Intel Core i7   Processor Speed:2 GHz   Number of ProcesJohn

Each time I use a USB,IPHOTO,DVD or VMware Fusion connection the desktop mouse pointer freezes regards Model Name: Regards John
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SMC Version (system): 1.69f4
Serial Number (system): C2*******F8V
Hardware UUID: *****
Sudden Motion Sensor:
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Hi Allan,
Thank you for your early response, I eventually managed to unZip the requested download, each time I tried the computer froze.
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John (omegajon)

Mas90 in Parallels or VMWare Fusion?

My Mother is considering buying an iMac as her next computer, but she runs software called Mas90. It is an accounting program. Now, does anyone know for sure that it will work in a virtual machine such as Parallels and VMWare Fusion and will also be completely compatible for Boot Camp. Thanks!

I have Parallels 5 running on my iMac i7 with Windows 7 64bit. I set it up to use 4 out of the 8 processors, and assigned 4GB of Ram (I have 8GB total on my iMac) to the virtual machine.
I also have an older home-brew PC here with Asus AI7 Motherboard, 500GB Seagate SATA HD (x2), 3.4GHz P4 processor, ATI Radeon 4670 Video (AGP!), and 4GB RAM running Windows 7 32bit.
Comparison? There is none! iMac Running Parallels above SMOKES the AI7 Machine. I couldn't believe the difference. It is just unbelievable.
And the key thing here is on my iMac I can run OS X at the same time with NO noticeable performance degradation. I'm sending this from Safari right now, with Entourage and few other things running in the background, along with Win7 running in a different Space full screen. This is GREAT!

VMware Fusion + Windows 10 = no network !

Hi all ,Strange thing , my colleague , who works on a Windows 10 inside VMware Fusion on his Mac encountered a strange problem.He was running Win 8.1 without problems. He upgraded to Win 10 without problems except the VPN software wouldn't work. So he uninstalled the software we use for VPN in order to reinstall the correct version ... but when he finished uninstalling the network adapter (virtual) won't come online again. It's marked as active , both in VMware as in Win 10 but it won't get an IP or anything. On the Mac machine it works without problems (network).He already reinstalled VMware tools , he reinstalled Windows 10 (repaired) , we tried creating an other virtual NIC without result , of course we also did IPCONFIG /RELEASE >> RENEW. Still nothing. One of the two NIC's shows up in the IPCONFIG /ALL but there is nothing IP...
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10.5.7 & VMWare Fusion

Hi,
I've been using a Mac for only a year now. So I'm no expert. But I development casual video games and so I have to run VMWare Fusion to compile Windows versions and use certain tools.
I upgraded to 10.5.7 and the latest VMWare Fusion and now my 3D accelerator is crippled. I understand that this is a bug in the ATI driver for the Mac and I was wondering when this would get fixed. As is, I can't work in the Windows environment. That would be fine, if I had all Mac only tools. But, as you know, there aren't a lot of Mac game dev software out there. My Level and particle editors are both toast.
Is there any ETA for 10.5.8 or a driver fix? Thanks.
James

redspark wrote:
With Bootcamp, you can't flip between OSX and Windows in realtime. Photoshop and my rendering software is on the Mac while the level editor is in Windows. Not a pleasant combination but it works when VMWare and OSX want to play nice together.
I only use Windows to compile the final Windows product -- not to actually code. I develop/code and compile in OSX.
You can file a bug report here:
https://bugreport.apple.com/
if you have not already done so.
You need to sign up with ADC, but it's quick, free and I am sure you would find it very useful, if you are not already a member.

Opinions needed on VMware Fusion or Windows programs on Mac

I am new to the Mac Family. My son is going to college this fall for Computer Animation, so I thought I would treat him and the family to a new computer system. After much research, the Mac Pro was the computer to get. I have a lot of software and downloads that are still PC. I was told that VMware Fusion is a good support system for Windows on Macs. Has anyone used this product and has anyone used it with Windows Vista?
P.S. I got my Pro Mac with 3.00 GHZ Dual Core, 4 GB Memory, and 500 GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s hard drive.
P.S.S. If I go with a conversion system (VMware Fusion), do I need a good anti-virus program (Norton/McAfee, etc.), or does that conflict with Leopard os X?

Windows on Intel Macs
There are presently several alternatives for running Windows on Intel Macs.
1. Install the Apple Boot Camp software. Purchase Windows XP w/Service Pak 2 or Vista. Follow instructions in the Boot Camp documentation on installation of Boot Camp, creating Driver CD, and installing Windows. Boot Camp enables you to boot the computer into OS X or Windows.
2. Parallels Desktop for Mac and Windows XP, Vista Business, or Vista Ultimate. Parallels is software virtualization that enables running Windows concurrently with OS X.
3. VM Fusionand Windows XP, Vista Business, or Vista Ultimate. VM Fusion is software virtualization that enables running Windows concurrently with OS X.
4. CrossOver which enables running many Windows applications without having to install Windows. The Windows applications can run concurrently with OS X.
Note that Parallels and VM Fusion can also run other operating systems such as Linux, Unix, OS/2, Solaris, etc. There are performance differences between dual-boot systems and virtualization. The latter tend to be a little slower (not much) and do not provide the video performance of the dual-boot system.
If you install Vista you must use Vista Business or Ultimate with the virtual machine software. You will need Windows anti-virus software. It isn't required for OS X.

Using a VMware Fusion XP environment with multiple Mac users

Hi,
I have installed an XP environment using VMware Fusion. I am only able to start this XP environment when logged in as the user that created it. How can I grant access to this environment to other MAC users on my machine?
Any input is much appreciated.
Kind regards, Hans.

Thanks all, thanks for your input. I have been able to solve it now.
As suggested I moved the VMWARE file to the shared folder. Then I assigned read/write access rights to the specific users. This is something I had not tried before. Somehow just moving to the shared folder did not change access rights on file level.
Thanks all,
Hans.

Run Windows 8.1 Pro on a SDXC card via VMware Fusion

Hi everyone,
I'm kinda new to the whole Mac story.
Have been using iPhone and iPad from day one, but never could get myself to go off Windows.
Well, a few weeks ago I bought myself a 13.3" MBP (Mid 2014 - 11.1 model).
It's the retina one with a 256GB SSD in it.
Now my question is...
I have a license from work for VMware Fusion 7, and I need some programs to run on Windows.
But I don't wan't to partition my drive and run it via bootcamp, I want to keep my Mac clean.
Does anyone have experience or know if I can run this on a SDXC card?
I would use a 128GB SDXC card with 60MB/s write and 80MB/s read.
Can I stick this SD into the slot, install Windows 8.1 Pro via Fusion on this card and let it run on a decent level?
Thanks in advance,
And with best regards,
Sonicje

Thank you for the fast responds.
I took a look into it and you are right.
The read/write speed is much higher and cheaper.
But, like I said, I'm nog willing to share my drive with Windows.
So I'm going to buy a 64GB USB stick (less than 60 euro) and going to install it on that source.
With 64GB I've some extra space for the futher if I need to work with more Windows only programs.
Thanks again for the advice!

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