Vmware Mac Files

I have an iMac, running Leopard, a 320GB Hard Drive and I want to install Win XP Pro and VMWare Fusion. ...

If you use Parallel's "Coherence," then your Windows applications integrate into the Mac OS X environment, and you can use Windows windows alongside Mac OS X windows, almost as if they were native Mac OS X applications. ...

Generally speaking, if you plan to run one instance of Windows on your mac, I think VMware is better. However, if you need to play around with multiple windows virtual machines then probably Parallels is a better option. ...

If you use BootCamp, then no, you can't access the HFS+ formatted drive from Windows (without installing this: http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive/). If you use a solution such as Parallels or VMWare's Fusion to run Windows in a virtualized environment, then you can always set up the HFS+ formatted external drive as a "shared" drive and access it from Windows like...

LMAO!!! Good one, CJ! :D

rash that virtual machine and set it up again. It's much easier than actually solving the problem within Windows. Did you allow the VM some sort of access to the Mac file system? ...

As a former Windows user I can tell you that the ability to run Windows on a Mac does not interest me too much. The thing that caused me to switch to a Mac was Windows. ...

It depends on what you will be doing within Parallels or VMWare I think. I can't speak to VMWare, but I set my dad up with Parallels when he got his first Mac so he could continue to use his Windows Quicken files and access his old Micorsoft Works files. It performs wonderfully for that. ...

Deja vu?? (This is the same post from a few lines up!)

on some cases the clock runs slower, upto days. This makes programming quite hard, since the IDE does not know what files are changed. Also it mixes some databases quite funny. ...