Re: Appalled at my experience so far with VMWare Fusion, Win98 and XP Pro.

Jamie Kahn Genet <jamiekg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm about ready to give up. Clearly there was no testing with this
product. How on EARTH did this get such high ratings with MacWorld and
Mac|Life? Fusion is AWFUL!!! It doesn't even work the way it says it
will.

I expect that installing Win98 is a pretty rare case. I have one Mac on
which I installed XP straight and it worked fine. A second installed XP
and then upgraded to Vista. Again, worked fine. I have two friends that
have installed Windows (one XP and one Vista) and neither had a problem.

This is with a combination of Bootcamp and non-BC installations. Once
set up, some sites had some issues with networks that reqiured a bit of
tweaking, but everyone got theirs working and none took more than an
hour past the raw feeding of Windoze discs.

IOW, it works for most people. My first guess is that trying to go
through Lose98 is your biggest problem.

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- Burt Johnson
MindStorm, Inc.
http://www.mindstorm-inc.com/software.html
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