Installing Boot Camp Drivers

[DougSteiert]

So I recently bought Fusion 5x and I'm trying to get my Apple Superdrive to configure with the windows, but I'm having some issues. I have looked up many things and have gone to downloading the Apple Support Software from Boot Camp Assistant onto a USB, then connecting the USB to Windows and trying to download. However, whenever I try to do the setup.exe, it says that it was not made for "this model". Also, when I tried singling out the Apple NullDriver (which I just assumed would be the Superdrive) it also didn't work. How am I suppose to get my Superdrive to connect and be compatible with the Windows so I can insert disks and have them pulled up? Please help.

-Doug S.

[avanish321]

If you have downloaded bootcamp from bootcamp assistant i believe its only for windows 7. .

In any case instead of installing entire drivers by running setup.exe try to run appleoddinstaller.exe present under apple/drivers/ or apple /driver/x64 depending on your os .

Note: the path may be different cos i dont remember exact path . Look for appleoddinstaller.exe file.

[SvenGus]

Strange, because the Boot Camp Assistant should automatically download the right version of the drivers for your machine.

Anyway, one can also download them manually, if necessary - see, for example, here:

http://www.cafe-encounter.net/p824/bootcamp-drivers-direct-download-of-bootcampesd-pkg

Not sure that this solves your problem, but you could maybe try...

[SvenGus]

... But they should work, at least for the most part, also for Windows 8.

[DougSteiert]

Ahh thanks so much! I just assumed it would be Null Driver, but it was indeed ODDIntaller. Also, thanks for the link, Sven; now I know where to go if I need anything else installed.

[ColoradoMarmot]

You shouldn't need any drivers installed in the windows VM to use a USB CD/DVD drive at all.  Fusion should handle all that by virtualizing the Mac hardware and presenting a generic device to the VM.