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To: Swordmaker; tophat9000
Your statement that you set up VM Fusion in Boot Camp

That one of his statements actually makes sense. Fusion can run Windows from a Boot Camp partition within OS X as if it were a virtual hard drive. Some features, like snapshots, are of course not available. Fusion will also suck a Boot Camp partition into a virtual hard drive, kind of like the P2V in the enterprise VMWare systems. I so love that feature at work, "Server X is having hardware problems, it's gonna die soon! Don't worry, just P2V and chuck the hardware."

Now OS X not being full UNIX, that was a hokey statement in itself. Have you seen the list of OS X Unix software over at MacPorts?

123 posted on 08/09/2012 1:19:34 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat
That one of his statements actually makes sense. Fusion can run Windows from a Boot Camp partition within OS X as if it were a virtual hard drive.

My quibble was he said he "set up VM Fusion in Boot Camp" which is wrong... on its face. To have VM Fusion run the Windows installation FROM Boot Camp I would not have quibbled at. VM Fusion runs on OSX and in OSX. The way he posted it, showed he did not understand at all what Boot Camp was.

125 posted on 08/10/2012 7:19:42 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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