raggedjagged Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 VMWare shows the "Boot Camp" Entry in the menu, but when I start it, it says: Could not create the virtual disk for your Boot Camp virtual machine. How do I fix that? I want to be able to boot my physical Windows Vista hard drive on my computer in VMWare Fusion. I also tried Parallels 4, but it doesn't allow me to even create a new disk because when I select Boot Camp during the setup process, it sys it couldn't configure the Boot Camp partition. Please help!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/141640-vmware-not-booting-local-windows-drive-as-boot-camp/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
geiman Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 yeah I would love to get this to work as well, whenever I try and boot my small vista partition it gives me a BSOD right before it shows the login screen. Thats with VMWare Fusion, I haven't tried Parallels yet. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/141640-vmware-not-booting-local-windows-drive-as-boot-camp/#findComment-1004444 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgguy Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 What version of VMWare are you running? If 2.0 you might want to try 1.3 and see how that does, I've had some issues with 2.0. You can also try trashing the VMs and letting VMWare rebuild them. I forget the exact location, but search for "Virtual Machines" and throw the "Boot Camp" folder away. It'll rebuild it automatically. A BSOD is actually good news in a sense -- you're almost there. Try giving it more memory, or booting in safe mode to see if it's a specific driver that's causing the VM problems. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/141640-vmware-not-booting-local-windows-drive-as-boot-camp/#findComment-1005315 Share on other sites More sharing options...
raggedjagged Posted December 20, 2008 Author Share Posted December 20, 2008 What version of VMWare are you running? If 2.0 you might want to try 1.3 and see how that does, I've had some issues with 2.0. You can also try trashing the VMs and letting VMWare rebuild them. I forget the exact location, but search for "Virtual Machines" and throw the "Boot Camp" folder away. It'll rebuild it automatically. A BSOD is actually good news in a sense -- you're almost there. Try giving it more memory, or booting in safe mode to see if it's a specific driver that's causing the VM problems. I'm running VMWare version 2.0.1 (128865). I tried deleting that folder already, and I still get the same error immediately after I try to start powering up the Boot Camp entry. I checked the vmware logs to see what happens when I get that error, and this is what I get: Dec 21 05:41:45.709: vmfusion| Cmd /host2/#_client/util/file/cmd/##87/op/stat/ failed: Invalid path Why does it give that error? Why is it trying to access/write to a folder in /host2/...? That directory doesn't even exist!! Can someone please help me with this? Thanks! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/141640-vmware-not-booting-local-windows-drive-as-boot-camp/#findComment-1007694 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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