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    What's wrong with Bootcamp?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Omela, Aug 19, 2008.

  1. Omela

    Omela Notebook Consultant

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    Hi all
    Why bootcamp partition sometimes disappears from desktop Finder ?
    I think this prevents VM from starting sometimes
     
    Omela, Aug 19, 2008
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    If you are using a virtual machine, then if the Boot Camp partition isn't disappearing there would be a problem. An OS needs exclusive access to it's primary partition, so when a virtual machine starts up the partition should disappear and only be accessible from within the OS. That prevents some external application from modifying contents in the partition without the OS's knowledge thereby corrupting it. Like having two people editing a document at the same time without knowing what changes each other is making, there will obviously be consistency issues.

    The Boot Camp partition should reappear when the virtual machine shuts down.
     
    ltcommander_data, Aug 19, 2008
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  3. Omela

    Omela Notebook Consultant

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    thats a problem - it isn't reappear after VMware quits
     
    Omela, Aug 19, 2008
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    Are you using the latest version of Fusion 1.1.3? Fusion 1.1 was supposed to have fixed the remounting problem. I'm using 1.1.3 and I've never had this problem.
     
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  5. Omela

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    maybe it conflicting with parallels installation?
     
    Omela, Aug 19, 2008
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    Very likely. I don't see any reason why you would need VMWare Fusion and Parallels at the same time. And I don't believe virtual machines are supposed to be shared between both at the same time. Parallels has a utility to convert Fusion VMs to Parallels and Fusion has a utility to convert Parallels VMs to Fusion, so VMs really aren't directly cross-compatible.
     
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    From my experience with vmware, before it uses the partition, it is mounted normally within osx. When vmware uses that bootcamp partition, it unmounts it and uses it. When you close it, vmware never remounts it to be used within osx. So it doesnt show up in finder or the desktop.

    When youre done in vmware, launch Disk Utility and click on your bootcamp partition, then click mount. Works everytime for me.
     
    sulkorp, Aug 19, 2008
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    I just wanted to try both - VM is faster with vista for sure. But currently parallels better slightly because in it I already activated vista and in VM activation is not passed - it tells me that key already in use. Paralells also dont have disk problems
     
    Omela, Aug 20, 2008
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