A Vmware Story

Hello, I have a strange story about VMWare for mac; yes, I know you probally think that this post goes somewhere else. Well, let get on with the story! I installed Windows 7 RC in VMWare for mac. I liked it very well. But there is only one problem about that. It is that about every 3 uses of the virtual machine in crashes. But since it is not a really a windows computer, the virtual machine brakes! I used it about 9 times, so the title looked like "Windows 7 3. Strange. Enjoy, -Hannah

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So, seems that Windows 7 RC is buggy.
Or vmware for Mac seems buggy.
Or you had a license registration problem.
Did you try a more stable Windows, let's say Windows XP or Windows 2003 on your vmware for Mac system ?

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RC Versions are buggy. And in case of windows final release is also buggy that is patched by their update site later with lots of service packs. But here VMware fusion that you're using is new software that VMware launched for mac platform. I expect bugs in this stage as software for this platform is not matured yet. Besides for windows platform vmware is above version 6 so i can say it is mature.

Besides both VMWare and Paralles who are creating virtual machine software for macintosh mentioned that support for Windows 7 RC is under beta. They're yet to support it completely. (For more information you can check paralles's homepage where experimental support for win7 is mentioned, same is the case with VMware). You can expect next update of these two software support WIN7 -ultimate and other versions without any glitches.

By the way, if you've heard of Apple bootcamp. You can use that to install windows 7 as dualboot. RC release is not good to use for bootcamp though,IMO.

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Nope, I never tried them, but kind of a strange thing to happen any way.
Bye
-Hannah

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Not strange. Windows 7 was released this month so it will take time for developers to come up with support for their current version to support VMware. Still there was experimental support for RC versions. But it didn't worked right ? So, that explains their point of experimental support.

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