This will prevent Windows from hogging disk space over time, and keeps your VM image compact. When you're done with using the VM, restore the snapshot. Set your preferences (homepage? IE settings?), and save a snapshot of your VM.
Disable all unnecessary services, to increase the booting speed.Disable the page file (especially recommended when you've got a SSD).Ĭontrol Panel > Advanced system settings > Performance > Advanced > Virtual memory > No paging file - Set.Install CCleaner, to wipe (temporary) (log) files.Ĭontrol Panel > System Protection > Configure.2 GB RAM (Minimum of 1 GB, to ensure that your system doesn't crash).Create an new VM, and put the ISO image in the virtual CD slot.More details (about the old image) can be found here. For more information, and the tools used to create this image, see this forum.ISO size: 700 MB (after installing: less 2GB).I myself use an image, created by ivankehayov: I have not tested it in VMWare, but there should be no differences. Recommended graphics hardware for Windows DirectX 10 or OpenGL 3. Microsoft Windows is not included with VMware Fusion.
Mac OS X 10.13 or later Operating system installation media (disk or disk image) for virtual machines. 2014 old versions Licence Free to try OS Support Mac Intel Downloads Total: 23,075 Last week: 15. Afterwards, you have a fully functioning Windows 7 + IE9 system, which takes only 2GB of physical space: Getting Windows 7 Lite 750MB free disk space for VMware Fusion and at least 5GB for each virtual machine Software. Download Now The new VMware desktop product for the Mac, codenamed Fusion, allows Intel-based Macs to run x86 operating systems, such as Linux, NetWare, Solaris, and Windows in virtual machines at the same time as Mac OS X. The following steps will take a maximum of ten minutes.
For that reason, I recommend to only use Windows 7 if you want to test IE9+ (which requires Vista+). Even the cleanest installs have a size of at least 10 GB. Ordinary Windows 7 installations are shipped with a full load of crap.