First time poster and a first time Mac owner, so please have patience with me. I'm an engineering grad student so I do a lot of CAD work. I also do web and graphic design part-time. I have a rMBP 15 2.3ghz 16gb 256gb
I have a fresh copy of windows 7 ultimate with one activation and a student copy of vmware fusion 5. I want to install windows 7 as a bootcamp but I want to use the fusion 5 feature that allows you to power the bootcamp partition in a virtual machine. But I'm seeing a lot of people saying I'm going to need two serial numbers for windows due to the actual hardware being one computer and the virtual machine looking like another. Although, I am seeing on VMware's support that their vmware tools keeps this activation problem from happening.
Link to VMware Fusion 5 doc that says you can boot without 2 licenses.
-So my First question is: Will VMware's VMtools keep me from having to have two licenses to boot my bootcamp partition from inside of Mountain Lion?
The only reason why I want to bootcamp is so that when I run CAD I can take advantage of all my hardware. I just don't have enough experience with virtual machines to know if programs like Solidworks and AutoCAD Architecture will run in the VM.
-Second question- Does anyone think these mentioned CAD programs will work fine if I simply just install into VM and skip the bootcamp all together?
Thanks for the help
I have a fresh copy of windows 7 ultimate with one activation and a student copy of vmware fusion 5. I want to install windows 7 as a bootcamp but I want to use the fusion 5 feature that allows you to power the bootcamp partition in a virtual machine. But I'm seeing a lot of people saying I'm going to need two serial numbers for windows due to the actual hardware being one computer and the virtual machine looking like another. Although, I am seeing on VMware's support that their vmware tools keeps this activation problem from happening.
Link to VMware Fusion 5 doc that says you can boot without 2 licenses.
-So my First question is: Will VMware's VMtools keep me from having to have two licenses to boot my bootcamp partition from inside of Mountain Lion?
The only reason why I want to bootcamp is so that when I run CAD I can take advantage of all my hardware. I just don't have enough experience with virtual machines to know if programs like Solidworks and AutoCAD Architecture will run in the VM.
-Second question- Does anyone think these mentioned CAD programs will work fine if I simply just install into VM and skip the bootcamp all together?
Thanks for the help