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12 Getting Started with VMware Fusion
VMware, Inc.
To create a virtual machine from the Boot Camp partition
1Start VMware Fusion.
2 Create a virtual machine in the Virtual Machine Library for Boot Camp.
3 Type your Mac password to access the Boot Camp partition.
VMware Fusion creates a virtual machine from your Boot Camp partition
and starts Windows. After Windows boots from your Boot Camp virtual
machine, VMware Fusion starts the installation of VMware Tools to
enable full virtual machine functionality and optimize performance for
your Boot Camp partition when used as a virtual machine.
4 Follow the onscreen instructions and restart your virtual machine when
prompted.
5 When the VMware Tools installation is complete, restart the guest
operating system.
The first time you power on your Boot Camp virtual machine after installing
VMware Tools, you must reactivate Windows.
Boot Camp setup Action
You are running VMware
Fusion on a Mac with Boot
Camp and you have no virtual
machines on your Mac.
From the VMware Fusion Home
pane, click Boot Camp. This process
creates a Boot Camp virtual
machine in the Virtual Machine
Library and starts it.
You are running VMware
Fusion on a Mac with Boot
Camp and you have virtual
machines on your Mac, for
example, virtual machines
created with Parallels Desktop.
VMware Fusion displays the Virtual
Machine Library with a Boot Camp
virtual machine. From the Virtual
Machine Library, select the Boot
Camp virtual machine and click
Start Up.