Originally Posted by
aztimm
I've given the Mac OS over a year, and it still frustrates me. I know this is a touchy subject; whenever I post about it on FT, I get bombarded with people saying how any Mac OS is better than any Windows. So I'm beyond that, I want to move forward with Windows on the computer, and move on.
Given what you said in the OP which I read as "I will never run OS/X", I don't think it makes sense to run windows in a VM. I stand by what I said earlier, bootcamp is the way to go.
You will use OS/X to install bootcamp, then run bootcamp setup assistant to create a windows partition, etc, and then use bootcamp to boot the windows installer and never look back. Isn't that what you wanted to do?
If you want to read the docs on how to do that, start here:
http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/
On the other hand, if you plan on running both OS' and particularly if you just need windows to run a few programs that you can't run or don't run well under OS/X, then, sure, a VM would be the way to go, but that's not what you said in the OP. Am I misinterpreting what you said?
I did a p2v thing and I run vmware fusion, but just because that's what I do, it doesn't mean that's what makes sense for you. That's what I thought, but I guess everybody else here feels that you should be doing what they do because it worked for them.
-David