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Getting Started with VMware Fusion
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Create a Virtual Machine from the Boot Camp
Partition
Boot Camp is an application from Apple that enables an Intel-based Mac to
run Windows operating systems. Boot Camp creates separate Mac and
Windows partitions on your hard disk to create a dual-boot environment, so
that you can use either Mac OS X or Windows at boot time, but not both.
With VMware Fusion, you can use your Windows Boot Camp partition as a
virtual machine. This feature gives you the following abilities:
Use your Boot Camp virtual machine and your Mac at the same time
without rebooting to switch between them.
Share files easily between your Boot Camp virtual machine and your
Mac, through shared folders, and by dragging and dropping files or
cutting and pasting text.
To create a virtual machine from the Boot Camp partition
1
From the Virtual Machine Library window, select
Boot Camp partition
,
which is automatically detected, and click the run arrow.
2
Enter your Mac password to access the Boot Camp partition.
You must have administrator privileges to use the Boot Camp as a virtual
machine. VMware Fusion creates a virtual machine from your Boot Camp
partition and starts Windows.
N
OTE
If VMware Tools is not installed, and you reactivate Windows in your
Boot Camp virtual machine, and subsequently boot your Boot Camp
partition natively, you will be prompted to reactivate Windows. Reactivating
Windows in your native Boot Camp partition will result in your Boot Camp
virtual machine requiring reactivation the next time you power it on, and so
forth. Installing VMware Tools solves this problem. If you have VMware Tools
installed, you must reactivate Windows only when you first power on your
Boot Camp virtual machine.
