KirbySaysHi Posted September 23, 2007 Share Posted September 23, 2007 Well, I've got OS X running, and everything works (ethernet, sound, graphics)! Yeah! But there are two "problems". 1) Not all of my partitions show up on the desktop 2) I'd like to run VMWare and be able to boot into my existing Vista partition. I've tried VMFusion, and it refuses to load up my vista partition, just sitting at a blank screen. If I try my existing XP partition, I get a "hal.dll not found or corrupted, please replace the file." However, I know for a fact that the file is there, AND that it's a working installation. Also, both of these partitions show up as "Boot Camp partition on..." and then the device location. I also tried parallels, but it complained that I had a "non-standard bootcamp installation". My device setup: Primary IDE: 0: A New Hope | WindowsXP 1: disk1s1 (OS X) | disk1s2 (OS X tester) | Return of the Jedi Secondary IDE: 0: DVD-RW Drive SATA 1: Vista SATA 2: Empire Strikes Back Hopefully... the above isn't too confusing. Right now, OS X has no idea that "A New Hope" exists; at least, it doesn't show up anywhere visually (although Vista is listed, but appears unmounted in system profiler). At this point, I'm more worried about vmware stuff, so any help would be greatly appreciated! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lactobacillus P Posted September 23, 2007 Share Posted September 23, 2007 Vista will not like to be booted using virtualized hardware that is significantly different from your real hardware setup as the VMWare virtual machine probably is - and even if you manage to do so it will probably trigger the windows activation stuff again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KirbySaysHi Posted September 25, 2007 Author Share Posted September 25, 2007 Thanks for the response, I guess I'll have to figure something out... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lactobacillus P Posted September 25, 2007 Share Posted September 25, 2007 People have been having good experiences with Parallels in coherent mode though. Perhaps you could try something like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KirbySaysHi Posted October 6, 2007 Author Share Posted October 6, 2007 As an update: I used macFuse and ntfs-3g, and now all my partitions are editable! Yah! And thanks for the suggestions, I'll see how things run using vmware/parallels performance wise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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