Warning for you: apple’s (amazingly awesome) time machine doesn’t back up Virtual Machines or the files stored on them. I learned this the hard way when my MBP’s hard drive and I installed a new replacement (500 gigs!). Booting up VMWare I found my window’s vista virtual machine was gone. Like…permanently. Including my Quickbooks files, my scanned documents, and a bunch of tax documents from 2008.

From my understanding, since virtual machines are stored as a single, very large file the developers turn if off. Be nice if there was a warning or something.

So, make sure you save any backups or files to your macbook instead off the VM file system. I got very, very lucky and found a quickbooks backup from september 2009. I lost a few months, but I’ll take it.