So I decided to buy a new macbook (13 inch one) a few weeks ago. I installed vmware fusion and got XP Sp3 up and running real quick. It works very well and is very fast, except one thing that was killing me.
I use VibrantInk theme for VS2008, which has a black background, and when I moved my mouse over the code, I couldn't see my mouse cursor. Well it turned out it was black for some reason. I can't stand the white background, so this was a HUGE issue. But it all ends well.
How to fix:
You have to set the 'Hardware Acceleration' to one under 'Full Acceleration'. This did the trick. It is kind of annoying since the mouse kinda moves around 'laggy' like. I haven't tried the new fusion beta install, but I'll update the post if it works better with that.
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I used to have the same problem before my latest repave. Not sure what is different and why it works now, but whatever...
When I did have the problem I switched out the default cursors for the high contrast cursors in windows control panel. You may want to give it a try to see if it is better than the laggy cursor problem.
The problem is that Visual Studio uses a special kind of cursor (AND/XOR) that Mac OS X doesn't support. VMware Fusion 1.0 emulates these cursors by drawing them as all black.
VMware Fusion 2.0 (now in Release Candidate 1) adds a white border around these cursors to make them visible on a black background. Give it a try!
Thank you guys for the ideas. I am going to install the beta for Fusion in the next few days.
Thanks!!
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