According to VMware Fusion, though, the Mac OS X installer disk was not a bootable disk. I also tried, in vain, to boot Mac OS X’s install disk under VMware to create a Mac OS X virtual machine. This behavior snagged me a few times while I was running a virtual machine in the background and was waiting for the optical media to show up in Mac OS X’s desktop. One thing to beware of - when you insert CD-ROMs or DVDs, Fusion grabs the media by default for the virtual machine, even when it’s not in the foreground. It will also then be registered in Fusion’s Virtual Machine Library (which is just a list of virtual machines that VMware Fusion knows about). If you have a virtual machine created on another platform, you can load it by opening the directory and clicking on the. While you see a directory at the shell, in the Finder, you’ll just see a single icon that represents the virtual machine. The only difference is that virtual machines created on other versions of VMware are stored in regular directories, whereas Fusion stores its new virtual machines in a directory that looks like a self-contained application - much like applications on Mac OS X. As far as I could tell, Fusion looks to be completely compatible the virtual machine format used by other versions of VMware. I also tried a couple of “appliances,” which are available from VMware’s Web site, as well as virtual machines I’d created with VMware Workstation and VMware Server on Linux. Ubuntu installed without a hitch, and I was using Feisty under Fusion in less than 30 minutes. Installing and running VMs in FusionĪfter installing Fusion I did a regular install of Ubuntu Feisty using the standard Feisty install ISO. If you miss the gazillion-and-one questions asked by VMware’s Linux installer, you’ll be pleased to know that the VMware Tools package provided with Fusion for Linux guest OSes still requires the same kind of interaction. I didn’t time it, but on a MacBook Pro with 2GB of RAM and a 2.2GHz Core 2 Duo CPU, I was using Fusion in less than 10 minutes. Unlike the multi-step process for installing VMware products on Linux, the Mac installer is a simple package file that walks through the process quickly and painlessly. VMware’s Fusion, which was officially released from beta at the beginning of the month, works well for running Linux (or other x86/AMD64 OSes) on the Mac desktop, and provides a great solution for multi-OS users who need simultaneous access to all their operating systems on the same machine. If you’re a Linux user who’s just been issued an Apple computer, you might want to look into a virtualization solution for Mac OS X.
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