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Saturday, January 26, 2008

Running Windows in VMWare inside Mac OS X on a Lenovo laptop

It's kind of ironic that I was running a Windows XP OS within a VMWare Fusion virtual machine under Macintosh OSX on a Lenovo X60T Tablet PC.  

Ironic aside, the WinXP runs very well in VMWare Fusion 1.1 Build 62573.  I did find it, thought, that the VMWare OS I created on my desktop PC wasn't working on the Mac.  When I reference the disc file, the VMWare application just crashed and quit.  So I have to build a new OS from scratch on the Mac.  Also the virtual machine has to be in native Mac partition.  It can't be a FAT32 partition, which totally make sense because FAT32 can't handle huge file.

And you know the real reason why I want a WinXP on Mac?  It's because I want to find a way to remote desktop to my PC desktop, and there's no Windows remote desktop client for Mac OSX.  (I remember that there's was an old client that works on Mac OS, but has some serious problem here and there.

Also funny thing about running PC under Mac OSX is that the new Mac Space really works.  Like right now I have virtual space 3 running full screen WinXP, Space 2 running full screen VLC playing Touching Daisies Episode 3, and space 1 running Safari with multiple tab writing this blog.  Multitasking is fantastic.

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