VMware Fusion

I have VMware Fusion running with Windows Vista and Access 2007 and it works great. ...

I've used VMware Server, but not Fusion as I don't have an Intel Mac. I assume it gives you the option to set the virtual ethernet interface to Bridged mode. ...

using VMware Fusion or Parallels and opening them in a virtual machine that runs some version of Access. ...

How much RAM does your host Mac have? How much have you set up to your Windows guest OS to use? These are teh recommended requirements for the host to run http://www.eplan.at/index.php?id=6449&L=1 Are the other computers you'v been using it with also been running it under Parallels? Fusion can allocate way more RAM to the VMs, and does not have all the Workstation 4 bugs...

Aside from that, you'll only find Virtual PC as your option on the PowerPC side and it's REALLY slow. On the Intel Mac side, there's VMware Fusion and Parallels Desktop. ...

Linux, OSX licencing prohibits running it in a virtual environment. If that is the case if you have an Intel based Mac there is a choice of Parallels Desktop or VMWare Fusion. I would recommend the latter. ...

About the same way. None of the current ESX, VirtualCenter, or hosted VMware products support firewire. ...

What Parallels is talking about there is not running the actual Windows Virtual Machine from a FireWire drive, but sharing the files from your Mac stored on a FireWire drive with the Windows Virtual Machine. You can install and run a Windows Virtual Machine just fine on a FireWire drive with either Parallels or VMWare's Fusion. You could even make a RAID array of USB 1.1...

If you use VMWare's Fusion or Parallels, then yes, you can have the Windows disk image located anywhere you like -- even on a network share. No complicated partitioning, no scattered Windows files everywhere (VMWare and Parallels both keep the Windows installation inside of one, big, monolithic file), no fussing. Just make sure that if you're using a locally-attached disk...

Have you installed the VMWare Tools? ...