I have used Vista in/on a native partition for the last year (off and on).
With SP1 out I wanted to try again.
I also used Fusion 1.0 briefly and quit using it.
Now with Fusion 1.1 and Leopard - give it another try.
I've used the same pswd for Vista all this time.
Tried "use Mac OS" and tried disabling preference for keyboard support.
(It must be what I wanted as I had to retype it a 2nd time during setup of Vista this time).
Fusion / Vista won't accept it though.
Also,
my ~/ home directory is on another disk drive.
Fusion keeps telling me it can't create or WRITE and yet I can see and tell that the preferences
/Library/Preferences/VMware Fusion is there - so it does. Ignore the message? just a bug, huh?
I tried search, yet search took me through everything and not just Fusion discussions.
Searching just inside the current level could help.
What I did (above) was to skip the auto install, so I could change cores to 2 virtual cores, and boost memory from anemic 512MB to 2.5GB (and on Mac Pro you wouldn't want to run OS X with less than 2GB, and when installing Vista 64-bit it would be nice to use a "smart" preference (and if you have quad-core how about using 4-cores???
The install seemed to be.... flakey going through manual setup.
Now I am faced with other problems (natch):
Norton Internet Security 2008 checks hardware and OS, and it took 4 attempts, restarts, and it ALMOST completed the install only to get a "setup stop responding" message at 95% thru and now have to uninstall and try again? communication to the Pioneer DVD?
I have 2GB of files on USB SD memory card. But even after adding USB device, can't access the files. That has a lot of installers and 740MB Vista SP1.
It just seems that it is one step sideways and two backwards, but none forward.
I figure I bought Vista and Fusion and I don't NEED or want to be forced into a native OS, a VM should hopefully run acceptably. But I have my doubts.
Mac Pro w/ VM on a stripped RAID, 6GB RAM and it feels like molasses with 2- cores (I feel for anyone running with one, unless it is not threaded to take advantage of multi-core).
I suppose EVENTUALLY I'll get what I need (Quicken 2008, some other programs) installed, but right now it takes a lot longer this way.