Using a Virtual Drive via a USB Memory stick or HDD
Greetings; I have a Macbook Air 13", Mid-2012 model with an i7 Processor and 8GB of ram Unfortunately I only have the 256 GB SSD and I like to conserve space I originally had VM Ware Fusion 5 set to...
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USB 3 will run a VM just fine. It's not quite as fast as on the main drive, but once it's booted, you won't know the difference. FWIW, Dreamweaver runs natively on the Mac, and Adobe has a...
View ArticleRe: imac 10.7.5 Fusion 4.1.4 problems
Where did you get the disc? Is it a retail, full licensed copy? Oh, and is it XP SP3? I seem to remember that base XP doesn't install (but can't confirm off the top of my head)
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Re: Using a Virtual Drive via a USB Memory stick or HDD
I'd opt for the USB 3.0 External Hard Drive over a "memory stick" but either will work. I have a 15-inch: 2.8GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 2013 MacBook Pro with Retina display, 16GB 1600MHz memory and...
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What version of OSX, what version of Fusion, and do you have the VMWare tools installed?
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Re: imac 10.7.5 Fusion 4.1.4 problems
dlhotka wrote: Oh, and is it XP SP3? I seem to remember that base XP doesn't install (but can't confirm off the top of my head) I have no problem installing any release version of Windows XP and from...
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Alright, Thanks for the advice. Firstly, I would prefer a hard drive, but i just didn't want to ignore all possibilities. When I get to the point I believe I will get a USB Hard Drive. Now say I get a...
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psycrosis wrote: Now say I get a terabyte drive, would I be dumb to make a 250GB partition and then back up to another? as my access to multiple drives is limited by my funds. Having multiple copies of...
View ArticleRe: How do I restore a virtualized OS X Lion 10.7 client with Time Machine?
Hi - just wanted to ping this thread again and see if there was any update on this. This whole thing took me by surprise when we tried to restore a TM backup (from a VM running in VMware Fusion) back...
View ArticleRe: Fusion 5 Bootcamp Boot when Windows Installed as EFI
I see. What you omitted in manual partitioning is setting up an corresponding entry in the Protective MBR of the drive. When Boot Camp sets up a partition for Windows, it creates an entry in the GPT...
View Articlepref.fullscreen.showDelay -- anyone know if that should work in Fusion?
Would like to modify the delay before the toolbar appears as discussed here: Resize, relocate, remove or delay Toolbar in Fullscreen mode? Doesn't seem to work in Fusion. Thanks,Doug--
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jim.gill wrote: I see. What you omitted in manual partitioning is setting up an corresponding entry in the Protective MBR of the drive. When Boot Camp sets up a partition for Windows, it creates an...
View ArticleRe: Fusion 5 Bootcamp Boot when Windows Installed as EFI
Woody -- Your message is complex, please forgive me if I misunderstand. WoodyZ wrote: Now in each of these times I rebuilt and didn't use the Boot Camp Assistant nonetheless VMware Fusion would...
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Re: Fusion 5 Bootcamp Boot when Windows Installed as EFI
jim.gill wrote: I think it was Win7 that introduced the ability to boot from an EFI (pure GPT) disk. The first was actually Windows Vista x64 SP1. -- Darius
View ArticleCommand-tab and Option-tab
Hi,I am using Lubuntu Linux on VMWare for a certain project. I wish to disable Command-tab when in VMWare from switching to running Mac OS programs and cause it to instead switch programs in Lubuntu....
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Re: Fusion 5 Bootcamp Boot when Windows Installed as EFI
jim.gill wrote: Woody -- Your message is complex, please forgive me if I misunderstand. Come on Jim, it's not that complex! Once you get a hybrid MBR onto your system, it will probably stay around...
View ArticleRe: imac 10.7.5 Fusion 4.1.4 problems
Thanks WoodyZ. I thought I would try producing an ISO from my XP Pro SP2 disc and it loaded in minutes from the ISO. Why it would not work from the disc in the superdrive is a mystery. XP SP3 on a...
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Re: imac 10.7.5 Fusion 4.1.4 problems
On my old MacBook Pro it had a built-in SuperDrive and while it worked at times it didn't at other times, was a pain in the a**! My new MacBook Pro doesn't have a built-in SuperDrive however I've been...
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Re: Fusion 5 Bootcamp Boot when Windows Installed as EFI
Got a note that I was mentioned in your message, so here I am. Apple's Disk Utility typically fills in the first MBR entry as a protective GPT partition (type EE) spanning the whole disk, which is...
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