I’ve been playing with the beta of VMware Fusion on my Mac Pro. Why? I’ve been delighted with Parallels, but I need to be able to host 64-bit Windows VMs in order to run native Exchange 2007 machines. VMware handles this quite nicely so far, and I’ve been able to run my work XP VM under Parallels while simultaneously installing Windows x64 under VMware– a nifty trick. However, I discovered that if you want to copy a VMware VM, you have to manually edit the VMX file, then generate a new UUID for the machine. It’s not hard, but if you don’t edit the VMX file by hand, the Fusion application will endlessly prompt you for the location of the VM disk image. It doesn’t hurt anything, but it also doesn’t work. That’s what I get for using beta software, I guess.
Parallels, though, isn’t sitting still. I love coherence mode, and I look forward to testing the direct disc burning features in their latest beta. My experience has been a bit different from Tom Yeager’s in that I find Parallels’ video performance perfectly acceptable on both the Mac Pro and the MacBook Pro. Visio, Office 2007, and Office 2003 all work faster under Parallels than the PowerPC builds of Mac Office do under Rosetta.
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I am trying to copy existing VMs in VMware to a storage drive. I am getting an error saying the file size is to large for the destination device. I have ample room on a USB drive (1TB). Can you suggest a solution.