Running Quartus on an Apple Mac

I read thru this thread and don't have enough information to be certain this will work. I recently tried to install a Quartus programmer (V11.0) under a virtual window of VMWARE. Running WindowsXP. Programmer seems to execute the gui, but even tho we have installed the USB Blaster driver and hardware sees the blaster, the programmer doesn't. Can't figure out where the disconnect is in the driver/application connection to the USB Blaster. Anyone who can help, this would be cool!