airecken Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 Hi, So I have 10.6.2 vanilla and Windows 7 x64 setup in the same hard drive on different partitions. I can boot into each one perfectly via chameleon. However, I'd like to also be able to boot up the same Windows 7 in VMware while in Mac. Is that possible? Vmware sees it as a boot camp partition, and after prepping it, it gives me an error every time i try to boot it up. Any thoughts? Help please? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/202232-dual-boot-windows-7-and-1062-on-same-partition-and-using-vmware-fusion/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
an1r0n Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 Hi, So I have 10.6.2 vanilla and Windows 7 x64 setup in the same hard drive on different partitions. I can boot into each one perfectly via chameleon. However, I'd like to also be able to boot up the same Windows 7 in VMware while in Mac. Is that possible? Vmware sees it as a boot camp partition, and after prepping it, it gives me an error every time i try to boot it up. Any thoughts? Help please? Just install fresh VM installation in mac, that's kinda better... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/202232-dual-boot-windows-7-and-1062-on-same-partition-and-using-vmware-fusion/#findComment-1358772 Share on other sites More sharing options...
airecken Posted December 14, 2009 Author Share Posted December 14, 2009 Just install fresh VM installation in mac, that's kinda better... really? why is that better? wouldn't it be better to have flexibility to boot into directly or via vmware? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/202232-dual-boot-windows-7-and-1062-on-same-partition-and-using-vmware-fusion/#findComment-1358808 Share on other sites More sharing options...
an1r0n Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 really? why is that better? wouldn't it be better to have flexibility to boot into directly or via vmware? VM means Virtual Machine. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/202232-dual-boot-windows-7-and-1062-on-same-partition-and-using-vmware-fusion/#findComment-1358868 Share on other sites More sharing options...
joako Posted December 25, 2009 Share Posted December 25, 2009 I have the same exact setup with the same exact issue except I am using Parallels 5. I think the issue is the bootloader. Did you install Win7 first and then OS X? I had similar issues in Linux trying to boot a Windows partition from VirtualBox. When you install Vista it installs its bootloader, then OSX overwrites it. This is fine since you are using the OSX bootloader e.g. PC_EFI but when you try to boot direct to that Windows partition it does not work any more. Anything involving Windows and another OS on the same hard drive is always a problem... even on a 2nd hard drive if it was in the machine when you did the Windows install. One solution is to add all the partitions into VMWare so when you load the virtual machine the boot sequence is the same as the real machine and the bootloader sees the same things. Parallels will not let me do that -- there is no way to add the Mac partition or just the entire disk. It will only let me select "Boot camp partition" And yes while the "most ideal" situation is that you not share the Windows installation it is a waste of disk space and a waste of time to maintain 2 Windows install on the same hard drive. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/202232-dual-boot-windows-7-and-1062-on-same-partition-and-using-vmware-fusion/#findComment-1368862 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iyerit Posted December 27, 2009 Share Posted December 27, 2009 I have the same exact setup with the same exact issue except I am using Parallels 5. I think the issue is the bootloader. Did you install Win7 first and then OS X? I had similar issues in Linux trying to boot a Windows partition from VirtualBox. When you install Vista it installs its bootloader, then OSX overwrites it. This is fine since you are using the OSX bootloader e.g. PC_EFI but when you try to boot direct to that Windows partition it does not work any more. Anything involving Windows and another OS on the same hard drive is always a problem... even on a 2nd hard drive if it was in the machine when you did the Windows install. One solution is to add all the partitions into VMWare so when you load the virtual machine the boot sequence is the same as the real machine and the bootloader sees the same things. Parallels will not let me do that -- there is no way to add the Mac partition or just the entire disk. It will only let me select "Boot camp partition" And yes while the "most ideal" situation is that you not share the Windows installation it is a waste of disk space and a waste of time to maintain 2 Windows install on the same hard drive. A workaround for the bootloader issues is by adding a new CD/DVD device to the VM, change CD/DVD 1 to IDE1:0 (assuming it was in its default of IDE0:1), and set the new CD/DVD 2 to IDE0:1 (the point is to have CD/DVD 2 "before" CD/DVD 1), and having a chameleon boot CD ISO image in CD/DVD 2, and setting CD drive to be the first boot device. You won't want to put it in CD/DVD 1 because Parallels will hijack that drive for Parallels Tools installation. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/202232-dual-boot-windows-7-and-1062-on-same-partition-and-using-vmware-fusion/#findComment-1369727 Share on other sites More sharing options...
joako Posted January 3, 2010 Share Posted January 3, 2010 A workaround for the bootloader issues is by adding a new CD/DVD device to the VM, change CD/DVD 1 to IDE1:0 (assuming it was in its default of IDE0:1), and set the new CD/DVD 2 to IDE0:1 (the point is to have CD/DVD 2 "before" CD/DVD 1), and having a chameleon boot CD ISO image in CD/DVD 2, and setting CD drive to be the first boot device. You won't want to put it in CD/DVD 1 because Parallels will hijack that drive for Parallels Tools installation. Is there some place to download the chameleon disc? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/202232-dual-boot-windows-7-and-1062-on-same-partition-and-using-vmware-fusion/#findComment-1375284 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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