Recently I brought a new 24″ iMac (just before the recent upgrades) making the move away from my MacBook Pro to a Mac desktop. I do also have a Windows box but it’s now being used as a file server after I made the move to Mac OS. Still requiring a use for Windows and not wanting to muck around swapping monitor cables from my external monitor on my iMac to the Windows box (can’t be bothered buying a KVM), I installed VMWare Fusion with Windows XP SP2 loaded. It is running really well, very stable and is yet to have any hiccups. It’s only being used to run a web application and MS Office however.

Here are some screenshots in the various modes:

Running window mode.

Running Windows as if it were operating side by side with the Mac.

Running full screen.

For testing, I’ve also loaded Windows 7 Beta and it also runs very nicely:

Running full screen.

Windows 7 booting up in the VMWare.

Window mode.