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Booting into a Virtual Machine from a physical installation

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Mar 15, 20268592 views
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In Mac OSX, you can create a Boot Camp partition, install Windows on it, and then later by using Parallels you can boot into that OS virtually in OS X! Its awesome, I've been using it on my macbook. So, what I want to do now is, on my desktop running Windows 7 and Ubuntu 9.04, I want to virtualize …

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Fix for: Booting into a Virtual Machine from a physical installation

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I know that VMWare Server can do this when you create the virtual machine. I'd guess that Workstation is similar. If you create a new VM, when creating the virtual disk, choose instead to use a physical disk. Note: You have to run this process as an…

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