VMware Fusion

I use work a pile of computers (a Mac Pro as my lab machine, a MacBook and iMac and Mac Mini at desk, and a Dell Inspiron with 2 displays), and at home my MacBook Pro is my main machine. Home I stick to Mac OS X, and at work for certain tasks I need XP, and for certain other tasks I need other OS (different Linux, different Solaris, Windows, Netware etc) which don't all...

that should turn now to you indicate VMware Tools install, and click on the installer there. ...

There should come VMWare menus. Select "install VM tools". ...

Now if you go to register.codeweavers.com they have the full downloads available for today, and if you register your email you'll get the serial in a few days. I don't remember vmware.com going down when there were news of some versions of ESX going out for free.. :)

Though I think it should be free, its not that great, I would prefer VMware Fusion or Parallels any day, but they just use up so much space and processing power and laptops can't really handle it. ...

You do have to retstart to use Bootcamp, but believe me its better for gaming. Fusion i see now advertises DirectX9 hardware acceleration but common sense dictates you are gonna get better performance running just XP via bootcamp rather than running OS X then emulating XP over the top. Admitedly you only want to run old games but still don't assume they will work under...

What if I were to have Parallels, VMware and boot camp all in the same machine? ...

THAT would be illegal, sadly. And my guess is that the copy protection of those games won't let you play them in VMware or Parallels. ...

The whole thing sounds rather, well, strange. Tell us the long story. Come on. You have your own private legal Windows XP disc and "won't have access to it" when you get your next computer? Come on... Anyway: If the image's format doesn't work with VMware, simply use Toast to burn it to a new disc. Voilà.

Usually it is specially coded, but with what i've read is that .toast is really an iso just without the name. So you can just give it a try. What you do is open VMware make a new Windows XP file and it will give you an option to choose from either a disc or a disk image file, choose disk image file and then locate the iso file. ...