Thanks dlhotka for your swift reply but I am not trying to have multiple iTunes accounts/library’s shared across a LAN, Gadgets, or trying to bend things.
I already have all iGadgets working fine using a mix of MS VMs, and all respond well to iTunes in…… I’ll explain more
No1 iMac
I have all my own personal phones (old and new) synced in iTunes within an XP Pro VM as I mmm must use MS Outlook. I have to stick with that as my Outlook .pst file is about 9GB in size (goes back to 2000) and I haven’t found anything that can migrate that to even Office for Mac. I’ve tried many options of converting to various 3rd Party mail programs and then trying to import from that but none are as sophisticated as MS Outlook, or can handle my well handled, very old, MS Outlook DB, that is a tad more complicated than what Joe Average uses. That makes me spit but I’ll spit if I have to.
That works well and I know XP Pro has a now limited life of a few hundred days before MS pull the plug on support and any updates. IMO XP Pro is the best OS MS has issued and what has followed (always the best in the line) I’ve used hard and all are SHITE in comparison. As I said that’s my opinion only, also my son’s and many other millions… and I digress.
Also on No1 iMac I have an iPad1 and iPad mini that sync to iTunes ‘as Apple intended’ and no problems there either.
No replication or sharing of iTunes Library’s is required as what I need works. Phones and iPads share certain information using iCloud and that suits me.
What doesn’t work is iTunes Wi-Fi sync re my phones in the XP Pro VM (many have that issue on a REAL PC). Also XP (32bit) is my guess is not worthy of HD support from Apple (because iTunes for XP can’t play HD even though attached iGadgets can) or isn’t hardware compliant be it, because it isn’t or Fusion 5.0 says it can’t cut the mustard. That is a separate issue that lead me to want to change things.
No2 iMac
My daughter has a few iPhones that sync to iTunes natively using the root Mac OS X. If she’s happy then I’m happy, and that works as you would expect.
My wife prefers a Win7 Ultimate VM and she syncs her iPhone with iTunes on that and she’s also happy. It works.
My son syncs his iPhone, iPad1, and an iPad mini via an XP Pro VM and you might have guessed that also works.
The above works for all and I am not trying to reinvent the wheel or trying to invent any new spoke design to bend, hack or buckle what works, but it the MS stuff (VM or not) that just doesn’t do what it says on the tin as far as Apple tell me. Agreed?
iTunes in XP Pro not supporting HD was an issue with capable iPads connect so….. I thought I would try to get those iGadgets on a Mac OS X VM as itunes on there should speak the same language.
If I can get it to work I’m use a Mac OS X VM instead of an XP pro VM and that is all I want to do.
For me anyway I can’t get iTunes on a very legitimate Mac with a very legitimateMac OS X VM running via a a very legitimate version of Fusion 5 to just do what I know iTunes can do, and should be able to do.
Again…. I still have the same 3 ,,,,,,,,or 4 questions.