XP Pro and Windows 7 Pro through VMWare?

[Macloven]

I'm presently running XP Pro through a virtual machine on VMWare 3. With the recent addition of a 500 gig drive, I'm now looking to run Win7 Pro as well and wondering if this is possible with Vmware?

the windows 7 version is retail, 32 and 64 bit Pro. I'll make the 32 v 64 bit decision once the software shows up and be installing it also as a virtual machine, not through bootcamp.

I've got 4 gig Ram, and figure there's no way I can run both virtual machines at the same time. But if I can run one or the other it would be very helpful in deciding on switching my office to Win7.

Thanks,

Mark

 

[balamw]

I'm now looking to run Win7 Pro as well and wondering if this is possible with Vmware?

Yes, Fusion supports W7. I run W7 Ultimate 64 on my MBP and Pro 32 on my MB, and I find 32 runs a bit smoother in the the VM than 64, but that is probably due to the fact that I only have 4 GB of RAM split evenly between the VM and the host.

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[Macloven]

Yes, Fusion supports W7. I run W7 Ultimate 64 on my MBP and Pro 32 on my MB, and I find 32 runs a bit smoother in the the VM than 64, but that is probably due to the fact that I only have 4 GB of RAM split evenly between the VM and the host.

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Thanks Balamw,

Do you know if i can safely have a virtual machine for both win versions on the same machine at the same time?

 

[Zortrium]

Yes, shouldn't be a problem. I run my Windows 7 boot camp VM alongside a Windows XP VM frequently.

 

[balamw]

Yup. On my MB I have a dedicated Vista VM and my W7 Boot Camp partition VM, and on the MBP I have W7 Boot Camp in a VM as well as Ubuntu.

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[Macloven]

Excellent. I've been avoiding win7, as I believe many of my older app's won't run on it. But this way I can test and still have a machine that I know will run my important stuff at the same time.

That 500 gig drive is one of the smarter things I've done latey...should've done it a long time ago. Now I wish I could go above 4 gig ram....

Thanks all!

Mark