thunder.scripts Posted February 15, 2007 Share Posted February 15, 2007 Have you tried VMWare Fusion? I installed Parallels and it was waaaaaaaay too slow for my machine (specs below) so I ended up installing Win 98 in it, since I only need Windows to test sites in IE 6. But today I gave VMWare Fusion a try (I love it in Windows) and it worked like a charm. I have Win XP SP2 working perfectly in a VM with only 64MB RAM! Of course I disabled services and turned off all eye candy, but I'm astonished anyway The only drawback is there's no Coherence, but I didn't have that either with win98, and again, I only use IE 6 & 7 to test websites. So, if you need some VM soft, give VMWare a try... really cool. It's still a beta though. Good luck Fede Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveGee Posted February 15, 2007 Share Posted February 15, 2007 Not only that.... but I just saw a youtube video of a yet to be released beta build and it had 3D Acceleration IN VIRTUALIZATION --- I dunno what kind of machine it was running on (but its safe to assume it was a Pro Mac (since the monitor sure wasn't the iMac... Now, I'm no super-gamer (by any stretch) but it seemed to run the games really well... Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thunder.scripts Posted February 15, 2007 Author Share Posted February 15, 2007 (edited) It's also really cool that you can suspend the vm and next time you launch VMWare, it starts right were you left it in a few seconds. No booting and launching the applications you need. You can probably do this with parallels, though. EDIT: I suppose you're talking about Edited February 15, 2007 by thunder.scripts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobNyc Posted February 15, 2007 Share Posted February 15, 2007 Any hackintosh users tried VMware Fusion lately ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thunder.scripts Posted February 15, 2007 Author Share Posted February 15, 2007 Hello? look at my signature Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bikedude880 Posted February 15, 2007 Share Posted February 15, 2007 Hello? look at my signature Ok... for what reason? All I see are hardware specs. What a pointless post. @RobNyc: Not yet, but I can tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thunder.scripts Posted February 15, 2007 Author Share Posted February 15, 2007 (edited) Errmmm... I started this post saying I had tried it, and in my specs you can see it's not an Apple Mac. Sorry if it wasn't too clear :S Edited February 15, 2007 by thunder.scripts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bikedude880 Posted February 15, 2007 Share Posted February 15, 2007 Errmmm... I started this post saying I had tried it, and in my specs you can see it's not an Apple Mac. Sorry if it wasn't too clear :S Lol, it's ok. I've had a long day (and it's only 3PM ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thunder.scripts Posted February 15, 2007 Author Share Posted February 15, 2007 That's ok, you made sata for nforce4!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bikedude880 Posted February 15, 2007 Share Posted February 15, 2007 That's ok, you made sata for nforce4!! Actually, to clarify on that... I revived the project and kept getting stuck in a hole (as I don't have an nForce4 mobo), MeDevil came along and started working on it. Honestly, I haven't had any involvement in the project for over a month and a half. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opieum Posted February 17, 2007 Share Posted February 17, 2007 FYI for anyone intrested the next build of VMware fusion will have 3D support...you probably already know this by now... altho one thing was cool a buddy of mine that works there said Some DX9.0c games work. Guild Wars is one that mostly works (he mentioned there were bugs.) But it seemed to be cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobNyc Posted February 17, 2007 Share Posted February 17, 2007 What vmware fusion build do you have? The 2 I have tried crash my osx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thunder.scripts Posted February 17, 2007 Author Share Posted February 17, 2007 (edited) Te about box reads "VMWare Fusion e.x.p (36932)" I don't know if that's a build number or what. I downloaded it from the official VMWare site... if i remember correctly. Edit: Yeah, definetly, I remember filling in this form http://register.vmware.com/content/beta/fu...gistration.html Edited February 17, 2007 by thunder.scripts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobNyc Posted February 17, 2007 Share Posted February 17, 2007 Well the next build will have 3d support =) Let's see who wins.. DO you have coherence mode in vmware currently ? or that only exist for parallels Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opieum Posted February 17, 2007 Share Posted February 17, 2007 The latest released build does not have it. I think in a couple of weeks a new build will be arriving. That one WILL have 3D support. And a list of games that are known to run in it. There is a feature in the works that is supposed to be like coherence in some ways. Apparently that was pretty easy for VMware people to implement. It is supposed to be better in functionality with lots more extras. I know the details but I wont talk about it. Personally I don't like parallels as a company due to a bad experience I had at MacWorld with them. Their marketing people were {censored}s and spent alot more time trash talking VMware than actually answering questions about their product. So I see no need to help them by giving them details here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thunder.scripts Posted February 17, 2007 Author Share Posted February 17, 2007 Even though you can't do Coherence with VMWare yet, they've been working with virtualization for a long time (in windows at least), I don't think they'll have much trouble implementing that or any other feature parallels may have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_muad_dib Posted February 17, 2007 Share Posted February 17, 2007 (edited) i wonder what's the mac they used for the youtube video.... hmmm Edited February 17, 2007 by lord_muad_dib Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thunder.scripts Posted March 2, 2007 Author Share Posted March 2, 2007 [NO Torrent Links] Anyone tried that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted March 2, 2007 Share Posted March 2, 2007 Hey Thunder watch out, even VMware fusion is available for anyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thunder.scripts Posted March 2, 2007 Author Share Posted March 2, 2007 Hey Thunder watch out, even VMware fusion is available for anyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted March 2, 2007 Share Posted March 2, 2007 Any hackintosh users tried VMware Fusion lately ???? Yes I tried from the pre-beta, then the beta-1 and now the beta-2 alss worked fine. It didnt work when I didn't have QE and CI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Sticky Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 (edited) I just installed Fusion and before it finished it froze my mac with the "you need to power off" text screen. So i hit reset and now i get the same thing on boot up.. Not impressed. Haven't tried safe mode yet.. but still, WTF. IAN Edited March 8, 2007 by Mr.Sticky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Embio Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 Probably because your not using a Mac? Cheap shot, sorry. Its not that stable on my Macbook, I can run it for maybe half an hour before it hard crashes and then I need to hit reset also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 Yeah, that's incredible that in some Hackintoshes is running without probs. I only have problems testing one of the Open GL screensavers, the pipes one, it stalls and I need to restart th VM but not the App. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adriandkicks Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 Works fine here. Specs in sig for anyone who is interested...Havent tried 3D support yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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