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oharamj

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Aug 5, 2012
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Problems nesting OSs with VMWare Fusion 4
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CONFIG: MacBook late 2009 Core 2 Duo Model A1342 6,1 2.23 GHz CPU; 8 GB RAM; 500 GB 7,200 rpm HD HOST: OS X 10.8.1; VMWare Fusion 4 GUESTS: OS X 10.8 1 64-bit; MAMP VMWare Appliance 64-bit; Ubuntu MySQL Appliance; Ubuntu 12 64-bit; Ubuntu 12 32-bit; Windows 7 64-bit; Windows 8 Preview 64-bit

All of the above guests work fine at the top level; that is, executed as guests from the VMWare Library window with OS X 10.8 as host.

What I'm trying to do is the following:

I would like to have a rotating 3-d cube desktop with transparency. There evidently is nothing out there for the Mac.
There appear to be Windows based solutions. My Windows 7 runs really well as a guest to the OS X host.
My thought is to run multiple VMWare VMs as guests nested under the Win 7 guest. The sides of the cube being two sessions of OS X, MAMP, and Ubuntu.
I've read and read about this in forums and elsewhere online. There's an amazing amount of contradictory opinion out there on nesting, Core 2 Duo and "VT", changing config files, 32 bit vs 64 bit clients, and so on. Plus an alphabet soup of acronyms and terms that make my head spin.

Can someone tell me if I can do this with my present MacBook and - if so - how in plain English?

If can't run on my current MacBook, what would be the entry point machine where this would work fine?

Thanks,

Michael
 
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