Let me begin by saying that I have been, and probably will continue to be a firm fan of VMWare Fusion for Mac. I’ve used it every day for the last 4 years right from version 2.0.1, for developing on the Microsoft platform, and most especially with SharePoint. It has been rock solid, reliable and […]
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VMWare Fusion 4 Tools Upgrade Fails
September 15, 2011 
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After installing VMWare Fusion 4, the guest operating system VMWare Tools requires updating, but after initiating the upgrade a dialog box displays saying that the upgrade cannot be completed. Further information in the message indicates that the following line should be added to the Virtual Machine’s .vmx configuration file; isolation.tools.guestInitiatedUpgrade.disable = “FALSE” Shut the Virtual […]
Read moreConfiguring VMWare Fusion NAT on Mac OS X
August 25, 2010 0 Comments
Describes how to change the NAT configuration for VMWare Fusion. http://blog.mclaughlinsoftware.com/2010/03/01/vmware-fusion-nat/
Read moreVMWare Fusion Bridged Network Problem
June 26, 2008 1 Comment
Had a problem today starting a VM that used a bridged network connection, when starting the VM I got this message; “The network bridge device on /dev/vmnet0 is not running” The night before I’d been using a VPN connection from the VM and paused it before shutting down, today, plugged into a different subnet and […]
Read moreI’m all Mac’d Up
June 14, 2008 2 Comments
I’ve had a new Macbook for a few weeks now and I’ve got to say I’m a total convert, and I’m especially loving expose and spaces. I’m using it for all my dev work as well, with the help of VMWare Fusion, I doubt I’ll ever buy an MS host machine again. Most surprising was, […]
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