Fusion question

Is it possible to install both Windows 7 and XP, as separate installations with one purchase of Fusion on one Macbook unibody? If not, can it be done with two purchases/installs of Fusion? If so, how?

Thank you for any input.

 

Hi,

I gather you're talking about VMware Fusion? If so, do you want to run both OS's as virtual machines? VMware Fusion can do this fine as each will seem like a separate machine when running unless you use one of the networking functions or copy/paste.

The only thing I'd say is that you need a fair about of RAM to run VM's on any pc/laptop; I'd use a minimum of 512MB for XP and 768 for Win 7; more depending on what you intend on doing with it. Obv if your macbook only has 2GB of RAM then your options are limited when trying to run 2 VM's at once, as memory swapping may occur and slow down operations.

Hope that helps.

 

I have 4 installations of linux (mostly backtrack), XP, windows 7, server 2003 enterprise and SBS 2008.

You can have as many virtual machine installations as you have hard disk space and licenses for the OS's.

RAM is the limiting factor if you choose to run them concurrently. You will want lots and lots of ram also if you assign lots of ram towards your virtual machines.

512mb is vmwares recommended amount of ram for XP, and 1 gig is the recommended minimum for windows 7 according to microsoft.

Of course this depends on the applications that you run within the virtual machines, for instance if you play games within the VM's themselves you will want to dedicate more ram to them.

 

4gb is perfect for vm's. i have no problems with mine but i used to notice mild to heavy lagging when using vista on vm (this does not happen for most if not all users here). windows 7 runs flawlessly on my vm though.