Reinstalling Vista via VMware Fusion

[richardsim7]

I installed Vista on my new Macbook Pro using the Boot Camp assistant, however I did something to get rid of error messages and screwed up my activation *cough*.

I can access Vista fine using VMware fusion, my question is: Can I re-install Vista through VMware fusion so it saves me having to reboot all the time (ie: cutting me out of OS X, interrupting what I'm doing)

-Rich-

 

[rdowty]

In Fusion you can either run your BootCamp partition in BootCamp or as a virtual machine. The only issue is that it seems to disable Aero even when using BootCamp.

 

[richardsim7]

Aero isn't the issue here, how do I restart my virtual machine and boot from disc?

-Rich-

 

[ayeying]

restart, hold "C". or hold the alt/option and select the disk from the menu

 

[richardsim7]

Well I managed to boot from disc (F2)
I installed Vista fine, but when I tried to boot into it it BSOD'd
So I installed it the old fashioned way (boot camp) and that worked fine, but it BSOD'd again when I tried to go in via Boot Camp. This was resolved by deleting the boot camp folder in user/application support/vmware fusion/virtual machines and letting VMware Fusion create the bootcamp thing again

-Rich-