VMware Fusion 3 upgrade?

[MagicMouse]

My parents have VMware Fusion 1.1.1 and whenever I upgraded their iMac to Snow Leopard, the 1.1.1 did not work.

I did some digging and found out that 1.1.1 is not compatible with Snow Leopard. So we ordered Fusion 3.

Question is, when you upgrade does it uninstall windows? Or does it just "upgrade" the app?

Also, if it does uninstall windows, how do we back up the files if we can't boot into windows?

Please help me! This is really important to my fathers business!

 

[MacDawg]

No, it should just upgrade Fusion
It won't uninstall Windows

However, you need to be sure you can go straight from 1.1.1 to 3
I would check the VMware site to see about that process to make sure

 

[acurafan]

make sure you perform a backup prior to Fusion upgrade.

 

[MacDawg]

make sure you perform a backup prior to Fusion upgrade.

Agreed
Backups are always recommended when making changes to your system

 

[MagicMouse]

Agreed
Backups are always recommended when making changes to your system

How do I do a backup if I can't boot into Windows?

 

[MacDawg]

How do I do a backup if I can't boot into Windows?

It this case, I would probably just make sure I had a copy of the virtual machine file

 

[chrfr]

My parents have VMware Fusion 1.1.1 and whenever I upgraded their iMac to Snow Leopard, the 1.1.1 did not work.

At the very least, the upgrade from 1.x to 2 was totally free and could simply be downloaded. I'm not sure if 2.x is still available to download anymore.
Upgrading from one version of VMware to another doesn't affect the Windows installation.