Boot Camp Poker

Yes, I wish I had a fancy new MacBook Pro (but isn’t an even fancier one right around the corner?).  Anyhow, I’ve cleared out my Black MacBook and there is tons of empty storage on it.  I had Parallels on my MacBook and VM Ware on my iMac, but find myself playing on my laptop - duh.  So, with all this empty space avaiaable, it is time to migrate back from desk to laptop.

First Step.  Delete Parallels (sorry guys).

Second Step.  Install VMWare Fusion.  I headed to their website.   Found the download page.  Logged in (you may have to register) and agreed to the EULA.  Downloaded the newest version (2.0.4) with 12 months of McAfee Antivirus software.

Third Step.  Waited for download to finish.

Fourth Step.  Clicked on “Install VMware Fusion which appeared in the unzipped .dmg.  Agreed to everything they wanted including MacFuse.
Fifth Step.  Waited for Fusion to install.   Read a bit about MacFuse while waiting for 1 minute install to complete.

Sixth Step.  Entered my serial number.  You can get a free demo license for a 30-day trial online, if you haven’t bought it yet.  Note: copy and paste works much much better than trying to figure out if you are seeing a 0 or an O.

Seventh Step.  Open VMware Fusion from applications.   Choose Create Virtual Machine.

Eight Step.  Look through piles of unboxed disorganized discs looking for WinXP.  Found them.  Decided it might make sense just to copy the virtual machine from iMac.  Started transfer.  40 hours pending.  Decided Target Disk mode might be faster.  Saved this post as draft.  Okay that didn’t work not sure why, but Fusion wouldn’t open the copied Win XP Virtual HD.  Okay don’t use the Win XP Pro x64 version on a MacBook.  You aren’t 64bit capable.  Use the disc that doesn’t say “disc 2″.  Getting closer…

Ninth Step.  Found VMware instructions re: copying virtual machines.  Decided to try again.

Tenth Step. Hey! That worked!
Eleventh Step. Now trying to port all my prior hand histories from Pokerstars and Full Tilt to the Fusion side.  Plan is to only play in Fusion - so I receive the benefit of Poker Tracker and stop donking everything away.  Though, I’m not sure if Poker Tracker has a setting that will stop me from playing way above my bankroll.
Twelfth Step. Okay, I was going to say “Alcoholics are sober at this point, and I still don’t have VMware on the MacBook.” but I managed to install it several steps earlier.  Man VMware is easy.