Having both VMWare and Parallels?

[Pilaco]

I like to use VMWare or Parallels to run my Boot Camp partition. But I have experience some problems with running Parallels and VMWare with that message that tell me that I need to reactivate Windows. I also had to reactivate Norton Antivirus after the "major hardware change." I installed Parallels second, but I think the fault is with VMWare. I never had problems with activation when I started with Parallels first. So now I'm asking, if I uninstall VMWare, will there be a "major hardware change" again? Because I have reactivated my copy of windows countless times, and the guy at norton told me not to reactivate Norton again, because I won't be able to.

thanks for the help

P.S.
The reason why I chose Parallels over VMWare, is the fact that VMWare is very.... not good. Haha. You can play games with better graphics, but the graphics don't work. They randomly switch between random graphics. I found that parallels is better with the games that it can play. Trickster online for example. VMware can't play that because all the graphics keep shuffling around, and it's annoying.

 

[webgoat]

there are no activation issues with fusion if you install vmware tools before activating... as far as which is better at games its like choosing something crappy versus something thats slightly less crappy... whats the point? go with boot camp

 

[Pilaco]

Well, everything is activated now. My question is if uninstalling it will modify the hardware or whatever that message is. And I do use boot camp, but sometimes I'd like to use some programs in Windows and mac at the same time.

 

[webgoat]

Well, everything is activated now. My question is if uninstalling it will modify the hardware or whatever that message is. And I do use boot camp, but sometimes I'd like to use some programs in Windows and mac at the same time.

i don't think you should have any problems.. i'm not exactly sure how you've been running windows though... did you have a boot camp partition that you were using with both fusion and parallels?

 

[Pilaco]

i don't think you should have any problems.. i'm not exactly sure how you've been running windows though... did you have a boot camp partition that you were using with both fusion and parallels?

Yeah, that's what I did. I had a boot camp partition that I was running with VMWare and Parallels. xD

 

[webgoat]

Yeah, that's what I did. I had a boot camp partition that I was running with VMWare and Parallels. xD

there may have been some conflicting problems between parallels and vmware tools that could have led to the activation issues... only thing i can really think of

 

[Pilaco]

Oh, okay. I'll have to try and uninstall one, then.
Thanks