{"id":41,"date":"2006-09-25T15:40:45","date_gmt":"2006-09-25T20:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macvm.com\/microsoft-windows-vista\/"},"modified":"2017-01-06T02:06:25","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T07:06:25","slug":"microsoft-windows-vista","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/macvm.com\/microsoft-windows-vista\/","title":{"rendered":"Running Microsoft Windows Vista on a Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Microsoft
\nOfficial Microsoft Windows Vista Site<\/A><\/p>\n

General Notes about Microsoft Windows Vista<\/strong>
\n– Until it fully indexes it’s virtual harddrive, Vista is going to be very slow, regardless of what build you are on. It may take a few hours depending on what you have installed on your virtual harddrive.<\/p>\n

Note that Vista is going to be slow in some instances:<\/strong>
\n– The “features” built into Vista that take advantage of video accelerated hardware, are going to be incredibly slow, because as of yet, nobody has a fast video solution under either virtualization or emulation (even on Intel hardware) on the Mac platform (but they are working on it)<\/p>\n

Intel – Hardware Virtualization:<\/strong>
\nParallels Desktop<\/a>:<\/strong>
\n* Macworld Hands On with Windows Vista on Macs<\/a>
\n* As of the 1896+ builds, you can install Microsoft Windows Vista RC1 under Parallels. See this Parallels Forum Thread<\/a><\/p>\n

Intel and PowerPC – Software Emulation:<\/strong>
\nQEMU & Q<\/a><\/strong>
\n– How-To at kju-app.org<\/a> – Installing Windows Vista Public Beta Two<\/p>\n

Other – Dual Booting:<\/strong>
\n* Some have gotten Apple’s Boot Camp<\/a> to dual boot Vista, however this gets into a tricky area
\n* Macworld Hands On with Windows Vista on Macs<\/a><\/p>\n

VirtualBox<\/a><\/strong>
\n* See User FAQ<\/a> about installing network driver manually.<\/p>\n

VMWare Fusion for Mac<\/a> Support:<\/strong>
\nCopy and paste of text, drag and drop of files, shared folders, and screen resizing:<\/strong>
\n* Microsoft Vista Business
\n* Microsoft Vista Enterprise
\n* Microsoft Vista Ultimate<\/p>\n

Licensing and Windows Vista<\/strong>
\n* Windows Vista Enterprise<\/a> – Limits on installing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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