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

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.
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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.
 
I recently configured a laptop that had Vista Home Premium pre-installed (for a friend of the family), and while it wasn't as bad as some make out it did make me reconsider putting on my next Mac. I had planned on BootCamp'ing Vista on my new iMac, however, I don't think I will now.

I thought the interface was a good step forward, but the annoying prompts ALL THE TIME ruined the experience. This is not meant as a rant, (I've used Windows since 3.11), more an "appreciation" of my Leopard install :)

I'd take a stable copy of Windows XP x64 Professional anyday (If I had to choose a Microsoft OS).
 
Goatyman said:
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.
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It seems there's drivers for the MacBook Pro, but I've not found any for the MacBook, and as Apple state they don't support 64bit versions (yet) I would just make do with a 32bit version of Vista.
I thought the interface was a good step forward, but the annoying prompts ALL THE TIME ruined the experience.
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Many people hate this Vista 'feature' - it's easy to turn off.
 
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?
 
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 :(
 
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 :D
 
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 :)
 
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.
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Yes it does..in fact Vmware 1.1 has pretty good 3d graphics support - please get your facts right before recommending a product to a new user.

I chose VMWare fusion for a number of reasons, primarily because Parallels does not support 64bit , wheres Fusion does brilliantly. There are also benchmarks and reports that show VMware clearly outperforming Parallels in application speed - these things are important to me.

The Parallels versus VMware fusion doesn't have a clear winner, but they both have trial versions so I would suggest doing research on both products - read reviews and see what features you value most - then install the trial to see what you prefer.

I'm loving my VMware experience at the moment on Vista 64bit, it runs so cleanly and easily it's a joy - and the Unity feature is truly amazing.
 
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is a bootcamp install totally separate to the emulated one that gets shuvved in an image? i've read that people can sometimes run the vmware from the bootcamp partition but they are in two seperate places arent they? one in a seperate windows partition and one packaged up neatly in the documents folder in os x?
 
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