I haven't tried this but in the end Fusion just generates a giant file
on your Mac hard drive to represent the PC hard drive. I also know that
VMWare will 'import' a bootcamp partition. So depending on how much you
have on bootcamp and how much free space you have on the Mac side you
could just have VMWare slurp the bootcamp partition into the VMWare
file. Note that VMWare defaults to allocating only actual used space. So
your VMWare machine could have a 100GB virtual drive that only takes
10GB of disk space because most of it is unused. Once you have
everything off the bootcamp partitions you should be able to used disk
utility to delete that partition and grow the OSX partition to add the
space. You might have to do this while booted from an install DVD since
you normally can't change the partition map of a drive that you are
running the OS from. Worth a try though :)
CB
On 10/19/12 12:44 PM, Tommy Craig wrote:
Hi,
There are two ways to do this. First you can install Fusion and just tell it
to use your bootcamp partition as your virtual machine. This would probably
be the easies way to go if you already have bootcamp working.
With this option you can either use Window from within the Mac by using
Fusion or if you think you want to have all of your system resources
available to Windows you can choose Bootcamp from the startup screen just
like you are currently doing.
As far as I know, if you want to switch entirely to Fusion without the above
option, you would have to remove your Bootcamp partion, install Fusion and
then reinstall Windows from within Fusion.
Tommy
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[mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of wayne coles
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2012 11:29 AM
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: vm fusion
Hello list as a new user to the mac i have a few questions i am using boot
camp with win7 pro on a mbp13inch and if i wanted to switch to vm is it
doable and how would i go about it and would the boot camp partition be put
back as one partition or would i have to do a clean install so any help
would be most grateful so thanks in advance and sorry if these questions
have balready been asked
Wayne coles
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