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Optimizing A Windows Vista Virtual Machine

September 14, 2008

The Team Fusion blog has an article about optimizing Vista on VMware Fusion 2. Since it’s from the VMware folks it’s titled as VMware specific, but it’s appropriate for any Vista virtual machine.
Suggestions include:

Disable System Restore
Disable Screen Saver
Optimize Power Management for Virtual Machine
Disable Windows Sidebar
Disable Remote Management
Run Windows Disk Defragmentation Utilities
OPTIONAL: Change to Classic UI

Disabling [...]

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OpenSUSE Not On VMware Fusion

March 14, 2008

Last night I decided to see how OpenSUSE installed on VMware Fusion. I figured it would be a good way to kill a couple hours while watching TV. No such luck. I managed to make it all the way through the install but it died in the final phase where it does the hardware [...]

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Windows Vista Home Premium

February 22, 2008

While Vista isn’t new on the Quest I did add a new flavor, Windows Vista Home Premium. At $100 less than Vista Ultimate it seems to be the version to get. There are only a things Ultimate provides over Home Premium including Windows Complete Backup & Restore, Windows Fax and Scan, and Bitlocker disk [...]

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Fedora 8 on VMware Fusion

January 4, 2008

Along with Ubuntu and Mandriva I recently installed a Fedora 8 virtual machine under VMware Fusion. I’m installing Fedora 8 on VMware Fusion 1.1 which is running on my 13″ MacBook.
The VMware Wizard runs just as it did for Ubuntu and Mandriva so you can see the screen shots in those posts. The only [...]

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Mandriva Linux 2008 On VMware Fusion

December 31, 2007

Back around Thanksgiving I installed Ubuntu, Fedora and Mandriva Linux virtual machines on VMware Fusion. This article has the screen shots from the Mandriva install. I’m running VMware Fusion 1.1 on my MacBook running Leopard. Mandriva officially calls it’s free Linux Mandriva Linux One 2008.
The VMware portion of the setup was straight-forward since Mandriva [...]

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Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) on VMware Fusion

December 10, 2007

I installed Ubuntu 7.04 under Parallels back in April and upgraded it recently. I run VMware Fusion on my MacBook which I was traveling with over Thanksgiving so I decided to install Ubuntu 7.10 under VMware to compare with Parallels. I’m running VMware Fusion 1.1, which is the latest version, on OS X 10.5.1 [...]

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VMware 1.1 Released & Installed

November 15, 2007

VMware as released VMware Fusion 1.1 VM software for the Mac. The software now fully supports Leopard. Additional new OS support includes 32 and 64-bit Vista along with 64-bit Windows XP. There’s over two dozen improvements and fixes listed in the release notes.
VMware also released a beta version of their VMware Importer. This can be [...]

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Ready For OS X 10.5 Leopard?

October 22, 2007

[Last updated: Nov. 1st] [Oct. 29th: Now includes a sentence about my experience when using the app. Keep in mind I did fresh installs of everything and restored data.]
It’s time to start going through my apps and seeing which are ready for OS X 10.5 Leopard and which aren’t. I’ll start with my most used [...]

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10 Favorite Macs Apps (that I don’t use enough)

October 9, 2007

Yesterday I wrote about my 10 Most Used Mac Apps according to Wakoopa. I was a little surprised by some of the apps that showed up on the list and a few apps I really like didn’t show up in the top 10.
So these are the apps I wished were on, or expected to show [...]

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VMware Fusion Upgrade

September 2, 2007

I upgraded to the production version about two weeks ago. I installed a late beta of VMWare Fusion on my MacBook a short time before the production release. It’s set up to run the Boot Camp partition in a VM. I still haven’t found a need to run Windows on OS X but the VMWare [...]

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The OS Quest Trail Log #3

August 19, 2007

Upgrades – Patches – Please Stop the Madness
It seems like all I did this past week was patch and upgrade. I already mentioned the iWeb ‘08 update.
Microsoft released 9 security updates so it took awhile to patch my VMs.
Apple also updated Boot Camp to version 1.4 and I got around to updating it this week.
VMWare [...]

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