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#WINDOWS 7 FOR MAC VMWARE FUSION MAC OS X#
#WINDOWS 7 FOR MAC VMWARE FUSION INSTALL#

If I set the network adapter to ‘bridged’ I can see the home network but can’t access the internet.

#WINDOWS 7 FOR MAC VMWARE FUSION MAC OS X#

That is: Environment: Windows 7 (RTM) running on Mac OS X VMWare Fusion 2.0 If I set the network adapter to NAT, I have internet access but can’t see my home network. Ordinarily, I would just put 32-bit on without even giving it a second thought but one of my colleges reinstalled his Windows 7 VM last week (same model Mac as me but without the SSD) and he is convinced going 64-bit helped him. I have the same problem as described by Jeff above.

#WINDOWS 7 FOR MAC VMWARE FUSION INSTALL#

Should I install 32-bit or 64-bit Windows 7 for the virtual machine? If I allocate less than 4 GB of RAM to the VM, then I'm guessing it won't make sense to install the 64-bit version of Windows 7. After this Win-Update around 7 days ago my VM with Win10 32bit doesnt start anymore Manually starting doesnt. How much of my Mac's 8 GB of RAM should I allocate to the Windows 7 virtual machine? This has already brought the boot time of the host OS down from 2 minutes to just under 25 seconds! It's hard to know how much credit goes to the SSD and how much goes to the fact OS X was clean installed, but I'm glad I did both.

To exit Unity mode, click the VMware application icon, and then select Single Window from the View menu.

They will appear on your Mac’s Desktop and on your Mac’s dock. So far, I have replaced the original mechanical hard drive with an SSD ( Samsung 840 Evo Series MZ-7TE250BW 250GB) and done a clean install of Mavericks. The VMware Fusion window will disappear, and all of the open applications in Windows will now appear to be Mac applications. Both the Mac host operating system and Windows 7 guest operating system have been handed down from user to user over the years, so performance has gradually degraded over time. The other 6 GB of RAM were left for the host OS (OS X Mavericks). Previously, I tended to work in the guest operating system most of the time: Windows 7 (32-bit) with 2 GB of memory allocated to this VM.

reinstalling Windows 7 Professional for my virtual machine, which runs on the Mac.

reinstalling OS X Mavericks on the Mac itself (would've gone for Yosemite as I usually like to be bleeding edge, but I've already read about how there is no VMware support yet so can't run the latest Mac OS at the moment).

There are three things I am doing to unleash the full potential of this laptop: I have finally decided to do something about it this weekend as I have enough time to work on a major upgrade now. My MacBook Pro 13" has been extremely sluggish ever since I started working my new job earlier this year, to the point it significantly affects my productivity.