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Launching your Boot Camp Partition in VMware Fusion
Purpose
VMware Fusion allows you to launch an already-installed Boot Camp partition without affecting its ability to boot natively. This gives you the ability to access a Boot Camp partition from both inside the Mac OS using Fusion, and by rebooting and launching Windows directly.
This document describes how to launch a Boot Camp partition in VMware Fusion.
- For information on creating a Boot Camp partition, see Apple's Boot Camp Installation Guide.
- For instructions on how to import a Boot Camp partition, see Importing a Boot Camp partition in Fusion (1015088).
Resolution
- Launch VMware Fusion.
- From Fusion's menu bar, click Window > Virtual Machine Library.
- Click the play button that appears beside the Boot Camp partition.
- When prompted, provide your user password for authentication. Fusion prepares the Boot Camp partition to run in a virtual environment. This may take several minutes.When preparation is completed, the Boot Camp partition launches.
- When prompted, proceed with the installation of VMware Tools.
- When prompted, restart Windows.
- When Windows has rebooted, log in normally. You may be prompted to reactivate Windows because different hardware is recognized by the operating system. You only need to do this once. For more information, see Windows OS prompting for Activation when swapping between Bootcamp and a VMware Fusion virtual machine (1003426).
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- KB Article: 1014618
- Updated: Oct 27, 2009
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VMware Fusion - Product Versions:
VMware Fusion 1.x
VMware Fusion 2.x
VMware Fusion 3.x