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Working with VMware Fusion and Boot Camp partitions

Purpose

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

Resolution

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

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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