[infin]

xp will start to install, then it gets to around 70% and gives me an error saying it cannot locate shell32.dll. Anyone have a problem loading XP onto the mini with VMware fusion? i am using version 2, i had the same error with version 1. The XP disk i know is good. I did a search on the net and found that people that have a PC have had this problem with bad memory, would this be the same case as a virtual machine? osx is working great.

[SkyWriter]

i had no problems installing and running XP home on a virtual machine Fusion 2.0.2. i also loaded an Ubuntu 9.04 virtual appliance from VMware. i couldn't install the Dell Ubuntu that came with the machine touhgh... it took for ages to get anywhere i gave up, but got no errors.

[riverboa99]

VMware worked for me fine. I installed off the XP recovery disk that came with the system. It isn't particularly fast, but i wasn't really expecting it to be.

[adzski]

same here - no problems running XP under fusion apart from its a little slow...i only have a gig of ram though.

[BeyondtheTech]

Wow, I was thinking about a getting XP for a virtual environment, but thought the Atom processor is too sluggish for emulation, so I just repartitioned my 64GB SSD drive to pop XP at the end in a 5GB spot. How well does VMware/Parallels run?

[sane]

Major problems here. Looks like Fusion doesn't like XP slipstreamed with SP3. Trying to source SP2 only version at the moment.

[chazzek]

Beyondthetech, VMWare is pretty fast for me on the Atom. Keep in mind that it's not emulation, but virtualization, and most instructions run hardware. There's a slight virtualization penalty, but XP still runs almost as quickly as a dual-boot setup.

[caseybea]

For all of you wanting virtualization inside of OSX-- you might want to give VIRTUALBOX a try. (Yes, it's free).

I've been using VirtualBox on linux, Vista, and now-- OSX - with various guest hosts inside. For me, it works flawlessly. Performance in XP in VB is really quite good.

http://virtualbox.org

[KoruptDM9]

I had no trouble runing xp on vmware fusion 2. I ripped the Dell XP disc into an ISO and put that on a flash drive. Then I installed XP from the iso on vmware. The first time I did it, I loaded XP onto a class 6 sdhc. Lagged too much. So installed it on my 16gb SSD next. Runs great now. I have 2gb of ram which helps too.

[STiMULi]

No problems here. I used the Disk that comes with the Windows based models to make it work.