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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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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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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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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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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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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