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Re: How do I boot into my external Windows 7 hard drive on my iMac?

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There are additional manual edits that need to be made to the .vmx configuration file so as to not allow the Virtual Machine to be Suspend and also not have Snapshots taken so as to have it conform to the same conditions imposed on a Boot Camp partition install of Windows when run as a Virtual Machine.

 

All of this has been covered many times in this forum by myself and other so you should be able to search and find the finer details of what I've synopsized here.


I've had a look but would you be kind enough to post a link to this part.

 

Have a look at: Editing the .vmx file for your VMware Fusion virtual machine (1014782)

 

To keep the Virtual Machine from being suspended, which you do not want to do when using a physical disk, add the following option to the .vmx configuration file.

 

suspend.disabled = "TRUE"

 

To keep from having Snapshots taken use the following option syntax:

 

ide0:0.deviceType = "rawDisk"

 

Note that if the physical disks .vmdk was created as a SCSI (lsilogic) vs. IDE then ide0:0 would be scsi0:0.  Note that this option may be added automatically when adding a .vmdk pointing to a Raw Disk, don't remember for sure and not were I can test at then moment, so the option may already be present however if not then add it.


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