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Working with VMware Fusion and Boot Camp partitions

This article identifies options for using VMware Fusion with an already-installed Boot Camp partition.

VMware Fusion has two ways of working with an already-installed Boot Camp partition:

Launch it directly. For more information, see Launching a Boot Camp Partition in VMware Fusion (1014618).
Import it, which copies an existing Boot Camp partition into an independent virtual machine. This does not affect or remove the Boot Camp partition. For more information, see Importing a Boot Camp Partition in VMware Fusion(1015088).

Note: When launching a Boot Camp partition directly, the following Fusion features are unavailable:

Suspend or Resume
Full Virtual Disk Backup
Snapshots or AutoProtect

Note: AutoProtect is a feature derived from the Multiple Snapshot feature, which allows you to have more than one snapshot at a time. AutoProtect relies on a virtual parent disk, whereas Boot Camp uses a physical disk. As such, it is impossible to take a snapshot with a Boot Camp partition.

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