Showing posts with label vm. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vm. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Yosemite, Fusion 7, Windows 10, Office 365: experience

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I am a bit freaked out about how painless this was. The experience was surreal to someone of my vintage. My primary machine is a 10 month o...
Friday, October 19, 2012

VMWare Fusion 5: faster with a single file than with 2GB files?

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I've been girding my primary machine for the Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion conversion for about a year. Yes, before ML was released. Hav...
Saturday, June 16, 2012

Notes on converting a MacBook Core 2 Duo dual USB to Lion

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Our vintage 2006 MacBook Core 2 Duo can, in theory, run Lion [1]. I just upgraded it from Snow Leopard, which it ran reasonably well albeit...
Friday, August 12, 2011

Shrinking a pre-allocated Mac VMWare Fusion virtual machine image

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My "pre-allocated" VMWare image was taking up 120 GB on my drive for about 40GB of data. I found many references on how to shrink ...
Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Speeding up my sluggish XP Fusion VM

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When I gave up my last XP machine, I created a VM from the disk image . It worked, but the performance was poor. My XP VM on an i5 iMac was ...
Saturday, September 04, 2010

VMware Virtual Machines - the backup problem

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It's times like this that I really miss Byte (or BYTE?) magazine. They would have had great coverage of VMWare VMs - how they work, an...
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Saturday, July 10, 2010

Retrospect Professional 8 backup of VMware VM corrupt on restore

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I've been using Retrospect Professional 8 to backup a Windows 7 machine. That machine has VMware VM running. There have been no backup e...
Friday, February 05, 2010

Access denied: VMWare Shared Folders on Windows 7

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Between Dell machines shipping with motherboard disconnected SATA cables, a Clampi Trojan on my Windows 2003 server , a mysteriously vanishe...
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Thursday, January 21, 2010

VMWare Fusion 3: Migration, PowerPoint and Shrink Disk

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I've used VMWare 2 with Windows 2000 and Office 2003 on my MacBook for almost a year. I hardly ever use it, but it's compact and fa...
Monday, January 18, 2010

How to fix permissions in an OS X Package and how deal with VMWare Fusion Insufficient Permission problems

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In this one post I shall now solve two mysteries not currently addressed anywhere Google can find. The first mystery is how, in Snow Leopa...
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Wednesday, May 06, 2009

Why I'm downloading Windows 7 RC tonight ...

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It works on VMWare -- and it's free ... VMware: Team Fusion: Windows 7 on Mac with VMware Fusion: A Practical Guide Revisited ...
Monday, February 16, 2009

VMWare Converter - turn your XP box into a VM platform

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I love the competition between Parallels and VMWare. I very much hope they both thrive ... MacInTouch: timely news and tips about Apple...