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ericmason
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‎11-07-2007 04:18 PM

Bootcamp trouble

When I attempt to use Fusion with my boot camp partition I receive this message... "could not create a virtual disk for your boot camp virtual machine". Any suggestions?

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‎11-07-2007 09:05 PM

Check that /Users/yournamehere/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/Virtual Machines/ is writable (e.g. you can create a file in it)?

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ericmason
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‎11-07-2007 09:11 PM

Yes, I can create a file in it.

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romman
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‎11-07-2007 09:29 PM

Which version of Boot camp are you using? Also what OS do you have installed on your boot camp partition as well? I have boot camp 1.4 (Leopard version) with Vista Business 32 bit and everything works great. However, the problem I have is that my graphics settings get messed up when I boot back into Windows.

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ericmason
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‎11-07-2007 09:56 PM

I am using 1.4 as well... the Leopard install. Everything was running fine for the first week of using Leopard then today VMware just quit working. I had a virtual machine running XP Home and today out of nowhere it wouldn't start... It would give me the message "failed to connect to peer process". I uninstalled VMware, deleted the virtual machine and decided to go the boot camp route. That's when I ran into this problem. I am using the 1.1 release candidate of VMware, using Vista Home Premium. I own both Parallels and VMware... using Parallels works fine with boot camp so I guess I will go that route for now, but in my experience VMware runs much better.

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romman
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‎11-07-2007 10:01 PM

Eric,

I'm using Fusion 1.0, I tried 1.1 for a while and came back to 1.0 because of performance reasons. I did try parallels and did notice a performance increase with Fusion 1.0 btw. My suggestion is to try version 1.0 of Fusion instead of the beta 1.1 release, you will get better performance anyway.

ericmason
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‎11-07-2007 10:06 PM

Yeah, I thought it might be a bug in the beta so I tried using 1.0 but got the same results. Who knows at this point... probably just caused by one of the many bugs in Leopard.

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romman
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‎11-07-2007 10:09 PM

Ahh, good point. I'm having a problem with Windows Vista not seeing more than 2GB on my Mac Pro! Probably a bug on the MAC side.

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ericmason
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‎11-07-2007 10:17 PM

Guess we will have to wait and see, and I hate the waiting game. Smiley Happy Thanks for the suggestions Romman!

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rcardona2k
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‎11-08-2007 03:23 AM

In what context is Vista (32-bit, right?) not seeing more than 2 GB? In properties of My Computer? How much are you allocating to the VM in Fusion?

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