This article provides steps to import your Boot Camp partition into VMware Fusion.Īn imported Boot Camp virtual machine has access to features that are not supported when booting directly from an existing Boot Camp partition (such as taking snapshots and the ability to suspend). I'm assuming that there is a way to backup the Bootcamp VM somewhere within VMWare Fusion.
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If I didn't care about saving my Win 7 information, I'd simply remove Windows 7, install Windows 8 and make a new virtual machine and install Win 7 to it. I just want to backup/save my Windows 7 Bootcamp parition as a VM. I really don't care about transitioning my Windows 8 Virtual Machine directly to Bootcamp, so I don't care if I need to install Windows. So I found out that I could not have two different Windows paritions within Bootcamp.īasically what I'm trying to do is backup/save my Boot Camp image as a vmdk file so I can still open it via VMware (and not lose the information already on it), then install Windows 8 on Boot Camp so I can natively boot to it, and still be able to open it via VMWare Fusion like I'm doing now with my Win 7 Bootcamp partition.
I recently created a Windows 8 VM image within VMware Fusion, but due to the whole "move your mouse to the corner of the screen" thing with Windows 8, it's kind of a pain to have it run within VMware. I have VMWare fusion, and I configured it so that I can run the Boot Camp parition within my Mac so I don't have to natively boot to it.
So currently I have Windows 7 set up as a Boot Camp parition on my Mac Pro.
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