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Having downloaded the Windows 7 beta I installed it in a virtual machine (VM) using Parallels 3.0 running on my Mac.
Though the install worked fine, the installation of the Parallels Tools failed (either automatically or manually).
According to Downloadsquad it will work if you are running Parallels 4.0, build 3810.
So guess what I am downloading now?
Though very happy with Parallels
Get the best of both the Mac and PC worlds with VMware Fusion. With an intuitive Mac-native interface and a wide array of powerful features, VMware Fusion provides the most seamless way to run Windows applications on your Mac.
I am trying out the VMware Fusion 2 Beta on my iMac, it installed just fine as did Windows Vista.
I don’t do a whole lot in Windows, but for some stuff you need Windows such as GO!View for the PSP.
These OEM versions will work with VMware Fusion (and Boot Camp or Parallels). Though as OEM versions you won’t get any support from Microsoft, for that you will need to purchase the full retail versions.
Note that Windows Vista Home can not be used with Parallels or VMFusion due it licensing restrictions.
So here I am installing Leopard on an external drive on my iMac and installing various applications. One application I use now and again is Parallels so that I can run Windows and Ubuntu on my Mac in a virtual machine.
One of the things I like about running an OS in a virtual machine is that I can just copy them from the internal drive to the external drive and do not need to worry about installing Windows again, basically it just remembers where it was when I closed it down previously – even though that was on a different drive running a different version of OS X.
Nice and easy.
So I managed to download Ubuntu 7.10 (in an hour) and decided to install it on my Mac via Parallels.
It seemed so simple, create a new VM and say I want Linux and Ubuntu Linux at that, point Parallels to the ISO and wahay!
Well not quite.
It seemed to start okay and then I got the following error.
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No (real) idea what is going on here.
