Macboe Posted January 12, 2009 Share Posted January 12, 2009 I have vmware on a windows xp machine with 512 MB ram. Would I be able to successfully install Windows 7 beta on it? I don't care if it's a little slow, as long as it functions. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/146294-install-win7-in-vmware/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
frefrefrer Posted January 12, 2009 Share Posted January 12, 2009 yes u can give it a try and i believe u won't regret I have vmware on a windows xp machine with 512 MB ram. Would I be able to successfully install Windows 7 beta on it? I don't care if it's a little slow, as long as it functions. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/146294-install-win7-in-vmware/#findComment-1037651 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macboe Posted January 15, 2009 Author Share Posted January 15, 2009 It took forever to install and boots up slowly, but it runs okay considering its a vm. It's kind of slow. When I installed vmware tools (profile vista), and restarted it gave me an error and now I can't boot into it. I took a snapshot before installing vmw tools, but loading that doesn't help. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/146294-install-win7-in-vmware/#findComment-1041602 Share on other sites More sharing options...
opodeu Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 I have tried with Parallels it works faster than vmware.... but it looks like vista... I think the real potential of windows 7 will probably be tested in a real partition HD... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/146294-install-win7-in-vmware/#findComment-1058233 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dice7 Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 On OS X or windows virtualbox runs windows7 great. I have been running it for a little while and everything works. And virtualbox is free and very stable. Dice Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/146294-install-win7-in-vmware/#findComment-1063186 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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