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    VMWare Fusion and Quickbooks

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by dwjlee, Oct 31, 2008.

  1. dwjlee

    dwjlee Notebook Consultant

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    I need to use multi-user Quickbooks for work. Does anyone have experience using Quickbooks on XP through Fusion on a Mac?
    I would like to know if anyone has run into any problems.
    Thanks...
     
    dwjlee, Oct 31, 2008
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    jimboutilier Notebook Evangelist NBR Reviewer

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    It works just fine in Parallels. I have not tried it in Fusion but both VM products should be fine.
     
    jimboutilier, Oct 31, 2008
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  3. dbam987

    dbam987 wicked-poster

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    Using XP with Fusion works very well. Quickbooks doesn't do anything special that prevents Fusion from doing its thing.
     
    dbam987, Oct 31, 2008
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    dwjlee Notebook Consultant

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    The Quickbooks data file is set up on our company server. So, there shouldn't be any problems reading the file?
     
    dwjlee, Oct 31, 2008
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    You shouldn't encounter any problems. As long as you are able to get network access from the XP virtual machine you should be good to go.
     
    dbam987, Oct 31, 2008
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    buzzwriter Newbie

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    When my Windows desktop died a sudden death today, I attempted to install (using VMWare Fusion) in Windows Xp running on a new Macbook. The "reinstallation" disk didn't work, so I called QuickBooks Pro support (I have a support contract). They say that Intuit will not support installation if windows is running in Fusion on a Mac. They did give me a link and suggested I download Quickbooks Pro 2008 XP directly. The download seemed to work, but it said the file was corrupted. Same result after another download using IE 7 in the Fusion Window.

    Anyone else have experience with this? My data backup was stored remotely by Quickbooks backup, so I'm hopeful that I can recover the data once I have a working program again.
     
    buzzwriter, Jan 16, 2009
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