X-Ray Mac Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 I installed this version of Vista Ultimate via VMware Fusionm and for some reason Aero isn't installed on it. I go to personalize to try to change the menu bar color and it brings me to this.. what am I missing and what should I do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Numberzz Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 Aero needs a powerful graphics card and VMware can't deliver that without taking it away from Mac OS X. You can't run Aero in any virtual machine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X-Ray Mac Posted February 1, 2008 Author Share Posted February 1, 2008 ahhh ok Thanks for that I was confused. What if I were to use Boot Camp? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 Yes, you if you used Boot Camp you could because its running natively and directly uses your GFX card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Numberzz Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 ahhh ok Thanks for that I was confused. What if I were to use Boot Camp? That would work just fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X-Ray Mac Posted February 1, 2008 Author Share Posted February 1, 2008 thank you both for the information, I appreciate it! Which would u recommend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
socal swimmer Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 I would recommend Mac OS X 10.5.1 myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X-Ray Mac Posted February 1, 2008 Author Share Posted February 1, 2008 haha I know I have it and I love it but... my school believes in running EVERYTHING through windows and even my computer classes doing things strictly through vista and office 2007.. I figured I might as well get it and I did, but I want to know which way is best for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apowerr Posted February 1, 2008 Share Posted February 1, 2008 I figured I might as well get it and I did, but I want to know which way is best for me. If you're going to be using Windows and Office 2007 a lot, I would recommend installing it via Boot Camp. Further, there is support for Windows XP Service Pack 2 Boot Camp partitions, thus a user can utilise their Windows Boot Camp partition, eliminating the need for two separate Windows installations on their Mac. There is experimental Windows Vista boot camp support, though users will need to reactivate Windows Vista.[6] VMware included a snapshot capability for saving and restoring machine states. Virtual machines created with VMware Fusion can be freely used with any other VMware products, and vice-versa and compatibility with other VMware virtual appliances.[1] Source Yeah, I'd install via Boot Camp and then you can run Windows natively, or emulated through OS X. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X-Ray Mac Posted February 2, 2008 Author Share Posted February 2, 2008 Well I ran it though Boot Camp... still no Aero feature and my right click wouldn't work with my trackpad. I'm just sticking to Fusion I think. Also.. When I had Vista installed on VMware, I had no sound.. XP had no problem though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SticMAC™ Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 I had the same issue, so i decided seeing that I could not have AERO, I would run win2000 prof which is very fast and my needed app(CorelDRAW) in VMWare But now I've discovered VectorDesigner so i'd be spending less time in VMWare! Sound issue the same but works on Win2000 SticMAN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Korrupted Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 If you absolutely must have Vista, you could use VLite(like nlite) to strip out all the unneeded {censored}, so then you won't need to have 4-20GB hard drive space free for a virtual machine's OS install. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X-Ray Mac Posted February 2, 2008 Author Share Posted February 2, 2008 well hard drive space really isn't a problem.. I can live without Aero lol, but I need sound and VMware says its connected but when I go to the icon it says to audio part have been installed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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