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Just download the PowerISO on your windows VM and extract the files from its image and install. You have your Windows 8.1 on your VM on Mac. Now, you can simply login with the password which you have given on the easy installation screen.Īnd there you go. I skipped the McAfee antivirus installation. I was really amazed at the speed of installation. Step 12: It hardly took 4 to 5 minutes for the installation to be completed. As soon as you do it, the windows setup starts. Click on the play button on the screen which looks like the following. Step 10: After you close the settings page. Also, 4 GB is recommended as Visual Studio and other developer tools need minimum of 4 GB RAM as a requirement. Step 9: Select “processor cores” as following and allocate the memory depending on your machine’s memory. Step 8: The VMware fires up as soon as you save the virtual machine as below: Click on the “Processors and Memory” option in the System Settings. Step 7: Here the Virtual Machine automatically assigns the memory, to configure it, you should click on “Customize Settings” and save the virtual machine.
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Step 5: Check Easy Install and give your details and enter the Windows registration key. Once you select it, it appears as the following. Step 3: Click on “ Use another disc or disc image“ Step 4: Select the iso image of Windows 8.1 from the file chooser.
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Select the “ Install from disc or image” option and click on continue. Step 1: Fire up VMware Fusion and click on “ +” and select “ New“. I got it for freeeeeeeeeee!! Good stuff!! Anyways, following are the steps to be followed to install Windows 8.1 on your VMware Fusion on a Mac Machine. As I am a student enrolled at a university. If you don’t have it, download and install it. This post assumes that you have VMware Fusion already installed on your machine.

So even though you have an i5 processor with 8 GB of RAM, its good to go.
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I have a MacBook Pro Retina 15 inch Mid 2014 (latest) currently running OS X Yosemite Version 10.10.2 Okay coming to the configuration of my machine. Because, I thought there would be performance issues and I was trolled for doing that. One might be thinking, why did I install windows using boot camp instead of installing it on virtual machine. One more thing, I spent over an hour to install windows using the boot camp.
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I couldn’t update Visual Studio further and I couldn’t install SQL server on the partition because of low disk space. I allocated 60 GB for Windows partition because I only have 256 GB Flash drive. I ran out of memory in a couple days after installing Visual Studio and I had only 7 GB of space left. I can’t utilize my trackpad to the fullest. I have to install all the software applications again in the other partition. One thing is clear, personally I felt dual booting was a pain. I have even personally experienced the Windows 8.1 installed using the Boot Camp Assistant on a separate partition. I did good amount of research on the internet reading various posts and reviews on the performance issues one might have by installing windows on virtual machine. Frankly speaking, it’s a piece of cake if you do everything right.
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So, for me, this won’t work as I’m printing checks out of Quicken PC.This post demonstrates how to install Windows on your VMware Fusion on Mac. That did allow me to send a file through to the printer, but the formatting was not right. I also attempted to use the technique titled: There are others in the vmWare Fusion forum complaining about USB problems. That means if I want to ‘Connect a printer directly to a virtual machine through USB’ - the only thing I know to do is re-install vmWare Tools.

I then decided to see if I could reconnect the printer - no go. As soon as I finished using the printer from within Fusion - I ‘disconnected’ the printer from the Virtual Machine menu. In order to get this to work I had to uninstall and reinstall vmWare Tools. ’ Connecting a printer directly to a virtual machine through USB'.I can't say I've tested it extensively, but there is one bug I’ve discovered - accessing usb devices such as your printer is a problem. I upgraded to 10.11.4 and am running Windows 7 in Fusion 6.0.6 - it's partially compatible.

Just in case someone else stumbles upon this.
