Can someone settle a VM question for me

[Dorfdad]

Im looking to get either Fusion or VMWare based on this one simply feature alone, but ive not read anything about it.

I want to be able to bootcamp boot my Imac into XP and use it for games, but I do have some applications I wan't to use at times that I do not want to REBOOT into XP for. So I would like to know if either of these Virtual Machines will allow me to bootcamp AND virtual boot from OSX?

I know fusion had an import from bootcamp, but once imported your stuck booting from within OSX.

Im looking to boot from both at different times. Is this possible!?

 

[dimme]

From VMware you can boot your boot camp partition.

 

[Dorfdad]

From VMware you can boot your boot camp partition.

Both ways? So on money I can use the VMware partition and tuesday boot from the bootcamp partition!?

 

[Queso]

VMWare allows you to boot from your BootCamp partition within a Virtual Machine in exactly the way you're describing. The only difference between that and a more usual virtual machine is that the VM cannot be suspended. You have to shut it down when you close the VMWare program.

This is so that the guest Windows OS is ready for when you want to reboot your Mac and run it natively.

 

[Dorfdad]

VMWare allows you to boot from your BootCamp partition within a Virtual Machine in exactly the way you're describing. The only difference between that and a more usual virtual machine is that the VM cannot be suspended. You have to shut it down when you close the VMWare program.

This is so that the guest Windows OS is ready for when you want to reboot your Mac and run it natively.

thank you looks like VMware is my choice!