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Vista 64bit - boot camp
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Based on the thread https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/430179/, Vista can see both processors and all 8-cores. However, I'm not sure on if it's limited to Vista Business/Ultimate editions only.
Edit: Just to clarify, it looks like you'll need the 64-bit version of Vista Business or Ultimate to get access to all the cores. Fortunately, I think Apple recently released 64-bit drivers for Boot Camp so you should have a relatively easy path to set it all up. I intend to do the same in about 6-8 months time.
Edit: Just to clarify, it looks like you'll need the 64-bit version of Vista Business or Ultimate to get access to all the cores. Fortunately, I think Apple recently released 64-bit drivers for Boot Camp so you should have a relatively easy path to set it all up. I intend to do the same in about 6-8 months time.
Under boot camp, yes (specific to those versions mentioned above).
I believe, at least as of now, Vmware Fusion only lets you use a max of 2 cores, even if you have more. That's generally plenty for what you'd be doing under Boot Camp, at least for me.
I believe, at least as of now, Vmware Fusion only lets you use a max of 2 cores, even if you have more. That's generally plenty for what you'd be doing under Boot Camp, at least for me.
it's also worth noting that Fusion and Parallels don't support 64 bit Vista for bootcamp as you'll either get an error saying that you cannot run 64 bit os on a 32 bit machine or just some weird text error that will then screw your windows boot files, or both..... i know i did.
Both state that they are 64 bit compatible but that is only for normal vm's and not bootcamp. I don't think it would be a very hard problem to fix though as it would appear that a bootcamp vm is just automatically set to 32 bit and i am yet to find the option to change it to 64
Both state that they are 64 bit compatible but that is only for normal vm's and not bootcamp. I don't think it would be a very hard problem to fix though as it would appear that a bootcamp vm is just automatically set to 32 bit and i am yet to find the option to change it to 64
If you count seeing one or two BSOD's a month 'fine' among other irregularities - yeah, Vista 64 should work fine, seeing all cores and of course all the memory. However I've never seen a BSOD on my Vista 64-shipped Precisions.
The restriction is on the number of physical, socketed CPUs rather than the number of cores.
Vista Business and Ultimate (and Enterprise) both support 2 CPUs, so 2 quad core processors would give you the full 8 cores. The other consumer versions of Vista support 1 CPU, giving you between 1 and 4 cores currently.
Vista Business and Ultimate (and Enterprise) both support 2 CPUs, so 2 quad core processors would give you the full 8 cores. The other consumer versions of Vista support 1 CPU, giving you between 1 and 4 cores currently.
Really? Did you have to edit the vmk file to get it to work? Or has there been an update to vmware fusion that i missed as when i last tried before i gave up an just booted into bootcamp normally it didn't.
I'm not calling you a liar or anything but like this post from March shows, it never did work http://communities.vmware.com/thread/130760
Hm, Now that you say it I remember, I did something in the vmx file, but it was nothing more than edit a line of it. IIRC correctly I put "winvista" in the line 'guestOS'... and I think it wasn't even necessary.
If you create a new VM there is an option to choose Vista x64 edition. Doesn't it work?
my Version of VMware is 1.1.3 if this can help... (see screenshot)
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ah ok, i'm running the v2 beta as i thought that it might have enable 64 bit boot camp support, i tried deleting and recreating my bootcamp vm and it did boot this time but then i just got er a black screen and windows explorer didn't boot. Now it's been shutting down for the past 20 minutes....
Anyway, did you find that when you booted into your bootcamp partition using boot camp after using it as an vm that you had use the windows last known good configuration thing?
Also in case you were wondering i'm running Vitsa Business x64 SP1
