Windows 7 on Mac OS X

Last night I got Windows 7 Release Candidate up and running in VMWare on my Macbook Pro.  So far so good, I have Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008 Express installed and they seem to working fine.

I used Disk Utility to delete my existing FAT32 partition where I was running Windows XP, and then create a new partition. I then ran Boot Camp to create a new FAT32 partition (32GB), but once the Windows 7 installer kicked in it informed me that Windows 7 only runs on NTFS.  At that point you can just format and continue.  Once Windows 7 is installed, Boot Camp kicks in (Windows 7 warns you that it doesn't think the software is compatible - I ignored the warning).  All the Boot Camp drivers installed without incident.

I then attempted to connect VMWare to my new Windows 7 partition, but I found I had to first delete the /Library/Application Support/VMWare Fusion/Virtual Machines/%2Fdev%2Fdisk0/Boot Camp partition.vmwarevm and then create a new virtual Machine .

I found these instructions to be helpful.