i have been running windows xp on my macbook pro using vmware. i recently upgraded to vmware 5. i also recently upgraded to osx.8 mountain lion only to discover that i can no longer run microsoft entourage because mountain lion does not support power pc programs. so i have 5 years or so of notes on all aspects of my life - receipts, travel info, financial info, hundreds of other areas, plus notes of professional meetings, that i can no longer access.
i understand that one way around this would be to install os x.4 or x.5 as a virtual machine within vmware 5 running under mountain lion. (i'd actually prefer x.4 because then i can access my system 9 applications which had all my info from the 90s)
can someone please direct me to instructions for how to install x.4 (in addition to the windows xp that's already there) into vmware.
also, i saw someone's macbook where she swiped horizontally to jump between os x.8 and windows and older mac os versions. swipe and the desktop of a different os shows up. does that happen automatically in vmware 5 or is there some way of adding it. or did i get it wrong and that's not vmware.
thanks,
john