http://vmtimes.com/2009/06/how-do-i-install-windows-2000-pro-on-vmware-fusion-virtual-machine/ Virtualization news and reviews Sat, 12 Dec 2009 02:36:47 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://vmtimes.com/2009/06/how-do-i-install-windows-2000-pro-on-vmware-fusion-virtual-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-1749 Xuan N Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:50:38 +0000 http://vmtimes.com/2009/06/how-do-i-install-windows-2000-pro-on-vmware-fusion-virtual-machine/#comment-1749 No, you will not over write anything on your mac. What vmware does is create a sandbox for the guess OS (your case win 2000) to play with but will not be able to touch OSX. During your VM creation wizard, you select the amount of hard drive disk space that your win2000 can run on. What vmware does in the background is create a large .vmx file and tricks the win2000 into thinking that the .vmx file is it's C: drive. Anything win200 writes will only be inside that file and no where else. BTW, 3D games perform very poorly under vmware. No, you will not over write anything on your mac. What vmware does is create a sandbox for the guess OS (your case win 2000) to play with but will not be able to touch OSX. During your VM creation wizard, you select the amount of hard drive disk space that your win2000 can run on. What vmware does in the background is create a large .vmx file and tricks the win2000 into thinking that the .vmx file is it’s C: drive. Anything win200 writes will only be inside that file and no where else.
BTW, 3D games perform very poorly under vmware.

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