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From:Smith Micro Software Inc.
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6 of 6 customers found the following review helpful:
 Works exactly as advertised, 2008-06-01
Use with:
Macbook pro penryn 2.5GHz
Leopard 10.5.3 with bootcamp
Windows XP home SP2 OEM (upgraded to SP3 after installation)
I was concerned initially that this wouldn't work with an OEM version of XP when using it with both bootcamp and Fusion, but when I followed a very precise order of installation (which I found online), it was easy and relatively fast (the most time-consuming process was installing XP itself).
Once I installed Fusion, I was able to update to the most current version of the software online for free.
Here are the steps I took for a relatively painless install of XP:
1) Create the boot camp partition and install Windows XP.
2) Start up Windows XP with Boot Camp and validate.
3) Do all your patching and updating.
4) Boot into OS X
5) Install VMware Fusion and VMware tools if not installed already
6) Create a new image using the Boot Camp partition as the source
7) Startup Windows XP in VMware
9) Reboot the Windows XP in VMware
10) Validate Windows XP in VMware (this has to be after VMware tools is
installed and the image was rebooted. You may have to call the number for phone activation--the automated system will ask you to enter in a series of many, many numbers into your computer, which then should be adequate to validate the software again)).
11) Shutdown Windows XP in VMware
12) Shutdown OS X
13) Startup Windows XP using Boot Camp
14) Validate one last time if needed (this last step wasn't necessary for me).
Now I can use my Mac as a hybrid machine that can either run OS X, Windows, or both at the same time. I can drag documents and files from one system to another pretty seamlessly. It's pretty sweet.
The Best Virtualization Software for a Mac, 2008-05-30
Fusion is among the best out there for those seeking to run any version of Windows, Linux, etc... on a Mac. What makes it the best, is that you can run the virtual machine from an external hard drive, and you can run that virtual machine on any computer with VMware Fusion installed on it. I really love it, because I can work on Visual Studio and SQL Server from any computer off a single hard drive, and than if I did want too, I can transfer the virtual OS to the actual computer, and than transfer it to the Windows Server, or any other drive. The only downsides I can think of, are that Vista does not run well on my MacBook Air through Fusion, and on Vista, the Aero interface will not work, but that on any virtualization software. That's ok though, cause XP runs really well on the AIr. What makes this software fun, is that if there is any OS out there you want to run, but without messing up your current partition, you can run it through a virtual machine.
1 of 1 customers found the following review helpful:
 Solid product, 2008-05-21
What sold me on this product was the ability to run a virtualized machine of an existing Windows partition. This really gives you the best of both worlds in that when you need the extra performance (for games and whatnot), you can boot into Windows natively and when you want to run something that isn't incredibly demanding on your system, you can run that same instance of Windows (or whatever OS) from the VM. Its the "running the SAME instance" which really sells me. Because otherwise you end up having to install two instances of Windows (which would presumably means buying two copies of Windows) which would then mean that the data in the VM instance was not instantly available to you in the native instance. I've never used Parallels and I know there's plenty of fans out there of that product but as far as I know, Parallels does not offer this feature. Plus, from what I understand, Parallels will not take advantage of the multiple processor cores that most modern Macs have.
2 of 3 customers found the following review helpful:
 New to product. Just wanted to say their support SUCKS!!!, 2008-05-20
I can't say anything positive or negative about the product yet, however, their website AND telephone support is terrible! Its one of those websites where you cannot find the proper link. So instead I called and now I've been on hold for 15 minutes. Also if you miss their instruction to press a key, beware. They don't repeat. I realize I'm just venting right now to kill time while waiting for someone to answer.
3 of 3 customers found the following review helpful:
Forget Parallels...this is what you want, 2008-05-14
AWESOME solution for running Win/Mac side by side. The "Unity" feature lets you run your windows programs as if they were running natively on the Mac...you can't tell the difference. You can customize how much of the processor you want to allocate to each machine. The only MINOR annoyances were with setting up windows to use some external equipment. Don't waste your money on Parallels....don't believe me? Buy both, then next week give Parallels to someone you don't like.
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