Comments on: A Beautiful Union: SharePoint and VMware Fusion

By: Gabi

Gabi — Wed, 26 May 2010 23:35:22 +0000

Thanks for the reply.

8gb, expensive!

Just going to try 2010 on my mbp through bootcamp.

Need a single install so I can test it out before deploying and work out the horrible branding :s

Good informative website,

thanks again,

Gabi

By: Chris Poteet

Chris Poteet — Wed, 26 May 2010 20:02:03 +0000

@Gabi: At the time I was running Win Server 2008. The version of SharePoint I was running at that time only needed 2GB RAM to run well so I kept it in VMWare. The new version of SharePoint needs 4GB minimum so I couldn’t do that now. I now have a MBP with 8GB RAM.

By: Gabi

Gabi — Wed, 26 May 2010 11:50:25 +0000

Interesting read.

Just wondering as to why you decided to go through a VM instead of running this natively on bootcamp, then you would have your 4GB dedicated.

Which server OS where you running on this too?

Thanks,

Gabi.

By: Ty

Ty — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 03:07:21 +0000

sweet deal! Excellent blog my friend! I’m doing a complete MOSS install on my MacBook Pro (500 GB HD, 4GB RAM, Western Digital 1 TB external HD wt/firewire). I plan on partitioning the VM drive to accommodate VISTA, XP with SP2 and I want Windows 7 on it as well. MacBook Pro is the only laptop capable of pulling it off.

By: Chris Poteet

Chris Poteet — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:29:37 +0000

@Scarlet: I would dedicate at least 2 GB of RAM if you’re doing SP development. I actually give my SP VM two virtual processors and about 2.5 GB of RAM.

By: ScarletKnight71

ScarletKnight71 — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:49:11 +0000

Chris — I am also a SP developer and was looking for a new machine to do my work. In addition, I am an OS X fan. Did you do any special configuration work with VMWare Fusion to get your desired performance on the MBP?
Thanks,

By: Peter Kazanjy

Peter Kazanjy — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:43:14 +0000

Great post Chris! We’re going to re-blog it on the Fusion team blog.

Pete Kazanjy
VMware Fusion Product Marketing