VMware Fusion

You do have to retstart to use Bootcamp, but believe me its better for gaming. Fusion i see now advertises DirectX9 hardware acceleration but common sense dictates you are gonna get better performance running just XP via bootcamp rather than running OS X then emulating XP over the top. Admitedly you only want to run old games but still don't assume they will work under...

What if I were to have Parallels, VMware and boot camp all in the same machine? ...

THAT would be illegal, sadly. And my guess is that the copy protection of those games won't let you play them in VMware or Parallels. ...

The whole thing sounds rather, well, strange. Tell us the long story. Come on. You have your own private legal Windows XP disc and "won't have access to it" when you get your next computer? Come on... Anyway: If the image's format doesn't work with VMware, simply use Toast to burn it to a new disc. Voilà.

Usually it is specially coded, but with what i've read is that .toast is really an iso just without the name. So you can just give it a try. What you do is open VMware make a new Windows XP file and it will give you an option to choose from either a disc or a disk image file, choose disk image file and then locate the iso file. ...

I've done the same in VMware fusion so that I do not need a disc every time. But, VMware only excepts .iso, so either you'll have to convert it from the beginning from the disc into . ...

VMware have now released Fusion 2.0 for OS X. I'm impressed to read that 2.0 will be a free upgrade to all 1.x users. :) The release notes list the new additions, which include:

I used toast to make a disc image file of my windows XP, could I mount it with toast and use it with VMware fusion? ...

Get yourself VMware and have windows on your mac so you can do all the extractions without traveling 10 miles!!!! lol. But out of the joke, most . ...

I would probably go with overkill solutions for it... thinapp IE. So you could run it as standalone with the same system you have IE 6 with...