Chapter 1. Instant Getting Started with VMware Fusion

Getting my first Mac was one of the most exciting and personally profound changes I had made in my computing experience. Back in October 2006, I got a MacBook Pro, and it changed my life. No longer did I have to fight with viruses to the same degree and OS X, now finally running on Intel, opened up the possibilities of Boot Camp and installing Windows on a partition, or running multiple operating systems on it through a technology called virtualization. So, I could still use Windows if I needed to, but I had the added bonus of a host system that I could trust.

An early problem I had was that I still needed to use some Windows-based apps for work. To solve this, now that Apple had switched to ...

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