sroddy Posted July 20, 2007 Share Posted July 20, 2007 I post here a really easy to follow guide that will make you eventually boot from your windows partition under vmware if: you are using a dual boot XP/OS X normally booting with the darwin bootloader you have them on the same HD VMWare is not seeing the windows partition as a "BootCamp" partiton. 1) Install VMWare. 2) Open terminal and type: sudo fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0 where 0 is the number of your hd where you have the two systems. type: print here you will have a list of your partitions. Please proceed ONLY if you see the HFS+ partition flagged with the * symbol. type: flag X where X is the number of the windows partition you want to use with vmware. type: write type "y" and enter. Do not exit fdisk as you will need it just in a few minutes. 3) launch vmware and you'll be pleased to see that you now have a bootcamp boot option. Follow the program instructions. 4) When you have finished to install everything and play a bit with the new toy exit VMWare shutting the machine down. 5) Go to the open terminal window and type: flag X where X is the number of the partition the was flagged before you changed it (the HFS+ boot partition). type: write y exit 6) Open vmware and verify that the BootCamp boot option is still there (as it was for me). 7) Try to reboot mac os (it should be all ok! DONE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wingk1314 Posted July 20, 2007 Share Posted July 20, 2007 thankyou so much for this. Havn't tried yet but i'll try it once a final version of fusion comes out. (it's still too buggy for me atm) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shanusmagnus Posted July 21, 2007 Share Posted July 21, 2007 Thanks a million for this post; I knew there had to be a simple way to get this done! However, I'm not quite out of the woods yet. I installed Windows/OS X/Linux, in that order. Linux installed grub, which apparently did something weird to the Darwin bootloader. Grub right now is set to boot: Linux: hda0,2 Windows: hda0,0 OS X: hda0,1 When you select OS X from Grub's menu, it then boots into the Darwin bootloader, which in turn gives me the option of booting OS X or Windows. The result of all of this is that when I follow the instructions you posted, I *do* get the option in Fusion to boot from Boot Camp Partition (yay!) but when I actually try to do so I get this: ---- GRUB Loading stage1.5 GRUB loading, please wait... Error 17 ---- I take it that VMware is trying to boot grub, which sees the filesystem as some kind of weird VMware virtual thing and gets confused, and pukes with an error 17. My question, therefore: do you know how to fix this? I will happily lose the ability to boot into linux and reinstall the darwin bootloader on MBR if only I could figure out how... Help is much appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir mac alot Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 thank you. it worked exactly as described. anyone know how to get the Win XP in fusion to see a fat32 partition? booting in windows sees the partition fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doum Posted October 28, 2007 Share Posted October 28, 2007 Hi, I try that to use my previously xp installation on fusion but it doesn't work When I do "write" after flag the windows partition it says me : fdisk:*1> write Device could not be accessed exclusively. A reboot will be needed for changes to take effect. OK? [n] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
potuz Posted November 16, 2007 Share Posted November 16, 2007 ... and reinstall the darwin bootloader on MBR if only I could figure out how... I'm in exactly the same boat, please let me know if you find a solution for this one. P. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
my1stmacisaHACK Posted November 18, 2007 Share Posted November 18, 2007 trid this method using VMware 1.1 but it theres an error... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
se_dony Posted November 18, 2007 Share Posted November 18, 2007 i, too get an error. i can select the bootcamp option without switching my active partition, but when i try to boot, i get this error: b0 error Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apulaski Posted November 18, 2007 Share Posted November 18, 2007 you sir are my hero! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliffton Beach Posted November 20, 2007 Share Posted November 20, 2007 Using Leopard 10.5.1. disk1s1 = linux, disk1s2 = osx, disk1s3 = XP. disk1s5 is my data partition. Lilo is in the MBR as my bootloader. With VMWare Fusion 1.1 I was unable to get anything going. Choosing a boot camp partition and run or settings cause Fusion to try to create a VM profile but it never finished and after killing Fusion the VM wasn't runnable. Fusion 1.0 worked better, I was able to create a VM profile. I set the Windows partition active, but on starting Fusion it ran Lilo from the hard drive's MBR (and failed). I finally followed someone else's advice and downloaded a SuperGrub ISO and set the VMs CD drive to "Use Disk Image". When I started the VM I pressed f2 to access the "BIOS" and set it to boot from CD. Once SuperGrub started I was able to choose to boot the windows partition. Works fine, though I don't have access to the data partition (disk1s5, a fat32 partition) from within the VM. It's all a bit of a hassle. If it were really important for me to have a windows VM for certain apps I'd probably just install Windows in a regular VM and forget about getting the "boot camp" partition running in VMWare. It's doable at least.. Also, now that I have a VM set up, I can run it with Fusion 1.1. I just can't get it set up in the first place with 1.1. 1.0 seems to be necessary to start, at least for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BbqKittens Posted November 23, 2007 Share Posted November 23, 2007 so is there a way to get vmware fusion 1.1 to boot the windows bootcamp partition yet? I always get the b0 error Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted November 23, 2007 Share Posted November 23, 2007 you can manually specify the dive in the vmx files with a tool. here is an old post: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?s=&...st&p=344195 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbonkers Posted November 23, 2007 Share Posted November 23, 2007 does anyone have the invalid serial number error? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clintoy Posted November 24, 2007 Share Posted November 24, 2007 b0 error Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rootnik Posted January 1, 2008 Share Posted January 1, 2008 If you are getting a b0 error, it usually means that Fusion found your 'boot camp' before you were able to set the Windows partition as active. To get around this: 1. Make sure Fusion is not running. 2. Using Finder, go to /Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion and trash all of the folders (you should see Boot Camp and Helper) 3. continue with step 2 sroddy's tutorial (post 1 in this thread) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
la_mer Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 I installed VMware Fusion 1.1 on Leopard and it ran my windows xp on another hard disk like a charm. It detected it as a Bootcamp partition automatically. No settings required at all. just one thing: I could only found the C drive in the xp disk which I formatted to 3 partitions. Is it possible to get the other 2 appear as well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir mac alot Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 i have not found a way to have the drive be seen like real drives. but, vmware allows you to add Shared Folders. you can add fat32 drives or even mac drives and folders. then while in windows you can give the shares a drive letter so the drives always show up. only problem is when you boot into windows directly the system takes a long time to startup. i think it is trying to find the shares and not finding them because vmware is not running. it works, just not the best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilSoldier Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 Is it possible to get this working with vista? I am using VMWare Fusion 1.1 with Tiger 10.4.11 Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 I installed VMware Fusion 1.1 on Leopard and it ran my windows xp on another hard disk like a charm. It detected it as a Bootcamp partition automatically. No settings required at all. just one thing: I could only found the C drive in the xp disk which I formatted to 3 partitions. Is it possible to get the other 2 appear as well? Sure, but you need to do it manually you can use vmware-vdiskmanager to make the VMDKs of your Physical partitions, then with a text editor add them to your VMX file. Is it possible to get this working with vista? I am using VMWare Fusion 1.1 with Tiger 10.4.11 Thanks I ran Vista on my AMD with 10.4.10 without problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilSoldier Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 Hi, thanks for your reply, but I have not been able to get it working with Vista; I always get the b0 error, and when I reboot after following the above steps, the Vista bootloader asks for the DVD, saying winload.exe is corrupted. I seem to get this very frequently if I change any active partition, so to save hassle, I am using the Vista bootloader at the moment. Will it still be possible to use Vista in VMware? Would it help if I downloaded 1.0? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imgeorge Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 I tried to follow this guide but right after I type: sudo fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0 I got this: fdisk: could not open MBR file /usr/standalone/i386/boot0: No such file or directory Enter 'help' for information I could never get to the partition list for disk0, on which my Mac OS X and WinXP are installed. Anybody has idea about this? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kombucha Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 Ignore the error, just move on (type "print"). I have the same issue, no idea why. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilSoldier Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 Does nobody have any idea how to help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilSoldier Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 Still nobody? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geysa Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 Very thanks work fine ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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