Booting from different hard drives in VMWare fusion

[johnlocke2342]

Hi.

I'd like to run my Windows 7 partition as a virtual machine on my Hack, but when I open VMWare Fusion, I got the "Boot Camp Partition" showing up, but I can't boot from it. When I want to boot from it, my Windows partition disappears from my desktop, like on a real mac when you boot the boot camp partition, except it says

Can't open disk "/Users/moise/Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/Virtual Machines/Boot Camp/%2Fdev%2Fdisk0/Boot Camp partition.vmdk" or one of the snapshot disks it relies on. Reason: the physical drive partition table changed since disk creatio. Remove the physica drive from the virtual machine, then add it again

My computer is partitionned as follows:

-200 GB GUID hard drive

-Mac OS X 10.5.7 with Chameleon 2 RC1 installed on it

-500 GB MBR hard drive

-Windows 7 RC build 7100 (NTFS)

-Data partition (NTFS)

-Ubuntu 9.04 system (Ext3

-Ubuntu data partition (Ext2)

-Linux swap

 

If anyone can help, thanks!

[kytzu]

you can boot a partition like that from vmware only if it was installed with bootcamp, otherwise you have to install a new image form osx and place it wherever you want. If your HDD is GUID and not MBR, you can try to install Win 7 using bootcamp but I'm not sure it can work on hackintosh.

[johnlocke2342]

Look, I believe it'll work on a hackintosh, as I saw a thread on how to do this on a hack on which both OSes are on the same drive, and another one saying how to do what I want to do, except it's for Parallels (I downloaded the demo, but it won't install, saying my "mac" doesn't support virtualization). I tried both tuts, adapting them to my situation, but t just won't work.

Anyone else?