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

Rwac · 24 Nov 2007 at 14:49

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)?

Rwac · 24 Nov 2007 at 14:58

If i go through Boot camp and then put my license key in again, will it cry?

Rwac · 24 Nov 2007 at 15:17

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?

Rwac · 24 Nov 2007 at 15:23

http://forums.macnn.com/66/macbook-and-ibook/352913/new-macbook-leopard-pre-installed-no/

Found the answer

Rwac · 24 Nov 2007 at 16:43

Not a problem I shall contact microsoft if it is a pain

Rwac · 24 Nov 2007 at 23:08

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. ?

Rwac · 24 Nov 2007 at 23:52

Belkin says it is setup as WPA/WPA2 yes?

Rwac · 25 Nov 2007 at 08:56

Just to let you now - Vista X64 worked fine with all the drivers on VMWare?

Rwac · 25 Nov 2007 at 18:21

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.

Cool ok. Well i tried turning security off on the router, and my card still couldn't see it?

Rwac · 25 Nov 2007 at 23:19

Caged said:
Then something's really broken

You haven't hidden the SSID or anything like that have you?

No because other laptops see it fine - i think it may be the firmware on the router maybe?

Rwac · 26 Nov 2007 at 19:19

robbiemc said:
Is this a question?
64 bit Vista will NOT work on Bootcamp I'm afraid..I found this out a few days ago to my cost! Luckily I'm happy enough with VMware as I'm not planning on playing any games and the integration with Leopard is amazing.

Many owners have it working successfully on some of the apple forums. It requires the installation of some different altered drivers - i havent had luck finding the right ones yet.

Rwac · 28 Nov 2007 at 09:43

Something freaky going on in the Goatyman household...

OSX can no longer see my wireless router (it can see others, and also connect to the one at university fine). Connecting the laptop to the router through ethernet works fine.

It is a bog standard Belkin 54G (39.99 job from comet/currys).

Tried updating the firmware and that didnt solve anything. Shall i return it back to factory settings?

Rwac · 28 Nov 2007 at 11:32

I didn't think that virtual machines supported accelerated graphics? I didnt attempt to play any games but whilst in vista on vmware i did receive some sort of 3D graphics error.

Does parallels see all of your ram? I was told Vmware was better

Rwac · 28 Nov 2007 at 13:08

waso_dude said:
VM ware has no gfx acceleration, thats why i use parallels - parallels uses the OSX Operating system, it creates a windows program in a bottle - and has a preset for steam.

Give it a go mate, I havn't looked back

/gets parallels!

Rwac · 28 Nov 2007 at 13:35

Ok 2 questions for you mate.

1. Obviously I had installed Vista 64bit under bootcamp. What is the best way of wiping this installation? I can see a disk on my desktop 'untitled' - i guess that in the windows installation?

2. Does parallels support 64bit

Cheers