Mac Virtual Machines
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There have been several products released for running virtual machines on the Macintosh. 鶹Ƶ offers VMware Horizon to all students and faculty.

VMWare Fusion 2

Create the virtual machine

  1. Open VMWare Fusion 2
  2. Select New
  3. Click Continue without disk
  4. Click Create a custom virtual machine
  5. Choose machine type and platform and continue
  6. Select Customize Settings
  7. Give the virtual machine a name and click Save
  8. Set CPU, Memory, etc. as desired under Processors & RAM
  9. Set Network to Connect directly to the physical network (Bridged)

Set up virtual machine to netboot

  1. Start the virtual machine
  2. Note the MAC Address and register it in GReg appropriately

Imaging

  1. Restart the Virtual Machine
  2. Image as a normal 鶹Ƶ Windows based machine

Post-imaging

  1. Allow the Windows virtual machine to post image
  2. Install VMWare Tools by going to the Virtual Machine menu and selecting Install VMWare Tools