Tried Vista on VMWare - dont like it, what do i do now?

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Installed Vmware and Vista Home Premium. Works as it should do but, i just dont like it. Thinking retrospectively I would prefer to have it on boot camp so i can run some of my old favourite PC games on it.

What do i do now? Can i simply delete the partition that VMware setup? If i run Vista under Boot Camp i assume all the video drivers will be fine and it will run my old games (CS 1.6)?
 
VMware doesn't create partitions, it just dumps a disk image in your Documents folder. Delete that and it's gone.
 
should be fine - might be a bit weird with drivers, as I don't know what bootcamp's driver compatibility is like with Vista. If you have a problem, call Microsoft and they'll let you activate again.
 
Cool ok i'll give it a stab.

One issue i have encountered now however is - I saw a tutorial recently mentioned how boot camp is in apps -> utlities. I cant find it here (Brand new macbook, leopard), not can i find it in Spotlight, or any help on the internet?
 
Erm, I activated my OEM edition of Windows in bootcamp and then couldnt activate it in VM because the activation software treats the VM as another computer. You may have a problem.
 
Hmm, I thought the T&C's of Vista Home didn't allow installation in a VM in the first place.

You can play CS 1.6 through crossover just fine.
 
Having a very strange problem when in Premium Home on boot camp. Windows can see all of the other networks in my area but my own Belkin network. My OSX sees and connects to it, so does my father's Toshiba laptop running Vista Home Premium. I also cant connect to the network through the ethernet connection.

When installing the drivers off the apple leopard install disk - it was unable to install the 'Keystroke' (i think) and 'MacHAL' bits of the process. ?
 
That doesn't mean much though - it won't be using your real hardware in a VMware setup, it will be using VMware virtual hardware drivers.

My guess is that the drivers for your wireless adapter don't support WPA2.
 
Caged said:
That doesn't mean much though - it won't be using your real hardware in a VMware setup, it will be using VMware virtual hardware drivers.

My guess is that the drivers for your wireless adapter don't support WPA2.
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Cool ok. Well i tried turning security off on the router, and my card still couldn't see it?
 
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