virtualize windows 7 triple boot MacBook pro using fusion - no training camp

Hello. I know I've seen many, many messages online on using Bootcamp, but here is my situation. Once again, sorry if this has already been - I searched for a long time, read many messages from Woodyz and others, etc...

I have a triple boot MBP - refit on/dev/disk0s1, Snow Leopard on/dev/disk0s2 (HFS +), Windows 7 Ultimate 64 (NTFS) on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64 (ext4) on/dev/disk0s4 and/dev/disk0s3.

I'd only (for now) to be able to run the Mac Fusion to run Windows (Visual Studio is the primary reason and other members of my group are those of windows).

That's what I tried:

1.) not mounted/dev/disk0s3 of disk utility

2.) / applications/VMware\ Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmware-rawdiskCreator/dev/disk0 3 WIN764 free (once I tried ide) to create

3.) Ran Fusion Version 4.1.3 (730298) to get:

New-> continue create a virtual machine-> custom-> etc etc that up a localized vmwarevm in the Virtual Machines folder...

4.) I then change, with a mac Editor (nano), the vmx in this file to add:

scsi0:1.present = 'TRUE '.
scsi0:1.virtualDev = "free".
scsi0:1.filename = "... / WIN764.vmdk" (because the 2 files created by rawdiskCreator are just above this vmwarevm folder.

When all this is done, I just get the rotating bar of DHCP and it says no operating system is located.

I can't find instructions step by step for those of us who do not use bootcamp...

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Steve

Occasionally, I need to create a Virtual Machine using a physical hard disk, temporarily placed in a FireWire enclosure, so what I do is to create a regular file based VM using VMware Fusion and make sure that vHDD of the machine virtual is on IDE.  Then, I use vmware-rawdiskCreator and create a set of files hard for the pHDD as like an IDE drive.  I then manually remove existing hard (empty) files of the virtual machine and place those created with vmware-rawdiskCreator in the packaging of the Virtual Machine and make the changes in the .vmx config file above.  Now depending on the physical Machine, the pHDD came and what OS is installed, I have to first start the Virtual Machine with an ISO Image of the custom of a boot disk WinPE that I then inject the required drivers for disk controllers HARD & keyboard and Windows registry entries when a Windows OS and any additional settings that may be necessary.  This is done to avoid type 0x7 BSOD, etc..

Note: When it is necessary, you will WPA (Windows Product Activation) and other issues of product activation type to be processed when doing this and not all product activation type number are rectifiable so keep that in mind.  Windows and Microsoft Office should be supported by VMware Tools, but others will require creative, if possible solutions, if their manufactured products will not support this usage scenario.

For some information on what is required I basically used information in the importer.iso in the bundle of VMware Fusion.app to validate my own scripts/programs to do the same thing as VMware Fusion as if it was done on the Boot Camp partition.  The content of the .iso make good reading, if you understand such things.

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