potuz Posted October 3, 2007 Share Posted October 3, 2007 Hi there, I couldn't find a satisfactory answer on the forum so I'm posting it, I apologize if it's a double posting though. I'm running 10.4.10 on a Hackint0sh and have about 6 partitions across 2 disks (windows Vista, Ubunbtu and osX as a main system). I installed Vmware Fusion 1.0 and would like to run Win applications out of it. I'm new to the vmware world and it doesn't show any virtual machine when it starts up. It'll let me make a new one, but I don't want to install everything again. Is there any way I can just add my existing (working fine otherwise) windows partition to Vmware? I should also mention that when booting osX the NTFS partition loads as read only. Thanks, R. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/65251-windows-native-partition-on-vmware/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
youngi Posted October 9, 2007 Share Posted October 9, 2007 try that: Parallels - Boot your physical Windows partition from MacOS X86 [ Tutorials ] [ OSx86 ] by macgeek @ 10.02.2007 15:38 CEST Sherry Haibara has found a way to boot physical Windows partitions in Parallels, running inside a MacOS X86 install! Congrats! Here is the tutorial: Get the latest Parallels beta here Open Parallels and choose to create a new virtual machine. It'll ask you what HD do you want to use. Choose Boot Camp. Continue the setup, but do not run the Virtual Machine. When finished, close Parallels. Use a Text Editor to edit your virtual machine configuration file (*.pvs). Find the line that says: "Disk 0:0 image = Boot Camp" and replace it with this "Disk 0:0 image = Boot Camp;diskxsy" where diskxsy is your Windows/Linux/Other OS "Boot Camp" disk. disk0s1 is valid for instance. Save and exit. Start up Parallels and launch the Virtual Machine. Enjoy! source: InsanelyMac Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/65251-windows-native-partition-on-vmware/#findComment-467120 Share on other sites More sharing options...
potuz Posted October 9, 2007 Author Share Posted October 9, 2007 Thanks, but that's using Parallels, I did try that and it does work (and so does wine), I was just wandering why vmware wouldn't work though. P. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/65251-windows-native-partition-on-vmware/#findComment-467180 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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