romey-rome Posted February 19, 2008 Share Posted February 19, 2008 I've seen a couple of reports that VMWare automatically finds your XP partition / drive as a bootcamp volume without any trouble & lets you boot off of it. Is this really the case? If so, how would I partition my drive? Plain ol' MBR? I'm giving XP its own drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romey-rome Posted February 20, 2008 Author Share Posted February 20, 2008 Thanks for the PM morgang. Fusion did see my drive as bootcamp without extra work, however it would quit when I tried to start it. I tried the workaround to manually create the virtual disk link, but it would do the same. Parallels booted right up without any problems, so I'm just going to go with that for now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flowero4ka Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 I've seen a couple of reports that VMWare automatically finds your XP partition / drive as a bootcamp volume without any trouble & lets you boot off of it. Is this really the case? If so, how would I partition my drive? Plain ol' MBR? I'm giving XP its own drive. I don't really know about Fusion, I'd love to try it, maybe. Because most of people think that to choose one app, it's necessary to try both. How do you think? Now I use parallels. I remember I had no problems with instalation. It works good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romey-rome Posted February 20, 2008 Author Share Posted February 20, 2008 Fusion seems little "snappier" to me than Parallels. A more well rounded app I think. Plus, VMWare has been in the VM game for a long time, granted not on a Mac. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romey-rome Posted February 22, 2008 Author Share Posted February 22, 2008 Resolved my problem with Fusion. It's actually the same problem the MB Air users are having due to the lack of a CD-ROM. My IDE CD-ROM doesn't work on my motherboard, and I don't care enough to fix it at the moment. I just had to uncheck the "Connect" for the CD-ROM box in my BootCamp VM config, which stopped Fusion from crashing on boot. Apparently Fusion goes to boot off the CD-ROM first, & if it's no there, it's not smart enough to just go on. Just a note... I installed XP the way you would on a normal PC with NTFS on a separate drive. MBR Partition created during XP install. Fusion saw it as BootCamp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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