Already have VMWare, Can I now use BootCamp?

[sanseref]

Just upgraded to Leopard. I am using VM Ware Fusion to run Windows XP (which I'd like to keep). Can I now create a new partition for Boot Camp (I want to boot into Windows for certain games that will probably run faster if not on the virtual PC)?

I assume the version of Windows on the Boot Camp partition would not have all the same settings/programs/files as the one currently on VM?

Would it be better to just wipe the current VM partition and start with Boot Camp and then reinstall the VM using the Boot Camp partition? I just didn't want to have to do this and reinstall the programs I have right now.

 

[Giaguara]

Is your XP currently in a Boot Camp partition or in a separate VM file?

There should be something like Carbon Copy Cloner but for Windows out there. So if you have a separate VM and you want to create a Boot Camp partition and sync the VM to that, that would be an option for it. All I know of solutions doing that aren't of the consumer end, so Acronis etc would do it but for a single system would be an overkill. Or again, if there was something like rsync for Windows, that would do it too.

 

[ex2bot]

I'm trying out a free Windows cloner called DriveImage XML. Seems to work fine with BootCamp. I needed something to back up Boot Camp in case malware damages my Windows game machine install. I read somewhere that the major commercial cloner, Norton Ghost, would not work with Boot Camp.

A popular free one that I couldn't get to work is CloneZilla.

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