Comments on: Windows Vista Ultimate in Bootcamp and VMWare Fusion Redux

By: Brian

Brian — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 06:38:57 +0000

Fantastic article. That’s exactly what I needed.

I spent an hour needlessly reinstalling drivers and running the System Recovery utility until I found your advice. You’re a life saver.

By: foojook-mac

foojook-mac — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 06:29:47 +0000

I just want to thank you for the advice on deleting the old bootcamp file. I was about to remove the whole bootcamp partition and re-install vista ultimate along with many apps that I have already installed on a virtual machine using vmware. Thank you so much.

By: sedo1800

sedo1800 — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:48:11 +0000

Wow thanks a million, your a lifesaver!

By: Rich

Rich — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:19:53 +0000

Hi,

I found your post while searching for the solution to a problem I had when setting up my Windows 7 Boot Camp install to work with VMWare Fusion.

It actually works pretty well, except at some point Internet access in the VM disappeared. Wondered if you’d come across this problem?

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 14:06:00 +0000

Thanks very much for posting this – was just starting to tear my hair out after upgrading my bootcamp installation from WinXP to WinVista.

The advice of deleting the VMFusion virtual partition file worked a treat.

You’re my hero of the day ;o) now to upgrade VMFusion to V2

By: Felix G

Felix G — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:01:49 +0000

On a Mac Pro the RAM Problem is even worse. The 32-bet versions of Windows detect only 2GB.

So i installed the 64bit Version of Vista Ultimate. After deleting the configuration files from VMWare everything works fine now.

Great performance via BootCamp and decent performance via VMWare (except for DX3D of course).

By: Joel P

Joel P — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:44:16 +0000

FYI, you’re almost certainly only seeing 3GB in Vista because you installed the 32-bit version. 64-bit Vista would see all 4GB, but I think I read it’s not officially supported in Boot Camp or Fusion or something yet. Translation: it might work, but YMMV.

By: Fred Flintstone

Fred Flintstone — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 23:19:37 +0000

Not to be exceedingly pedantic, but on a Mac slashes, not backslashes, are needed for its path delimiters:

/Users/{yourid}/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/Virtual Machines/Boot Camp/%2Fdev%2Fdisk0/Boot Camp Partition

By: Pete

Pete — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 18:46:40 +0000

Jason,

thanks for posting this. I was losing my mind after resizing my bootcamp partition, becauseI couldn’t launch vista ultimate via VMWare fusion. Thanks to your post regarding deleting the file in:

\Users\{yourid}\Library\Application Support\VMware Fusion\Virtual Machines\Boot Camp\%2Fdev%2Fdisk0\Boot Camp Partition

I can boot to my 20 GB vista partition. Thanks so much!

-Pete

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Parallels or Fusion advice - EmiratesMac — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 03:44:05 +0000

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