Can I boot from a VMWare Fusion instance?

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  1. galahan, Oct 9, 2010

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    I have Windows 7 installed in VMWare fusion. Is there a way to directly boot from that installation into non-virtualized W7? Would bootcamp or something be able to read and boot from that installation?

    I want to boot directly into W7 for gaming. The virtualized performance isn't really cutting it.
     
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  2. RaceTripper, Oct 9, 2010

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    No, you can't.

    But you can install Windows 7 using bootcamp (which is bootable), and use Fusion to run that as virtualized while booted in Mac OS X. Thus, with a single Win7 installation you can pick between dual-boot or virtualization. But you cannot do that with a regular Fusion VM image.
     
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  3. galahan, Oct 9, 2010

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    Argh, ok, I'll reinstall with BC. Thanks.
     
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