Mac boot from physical Windows partition

[Mookie]

Now that Apple has released Bootcamp and made it easy to create a dual boot Windows partition on Dou Core machines, it would be great to be able to boot the physical partition as a VM.

 

[blackcrayon]

Now that Apple has released Bootcamp and made it easy to create a dual boot Windows partition on Dou Core machines, it would be great to be able to boot the physical partition as a VM.

Yes, this would be great... Seems like it wouldn't be all that difficult since the software can already read other "disk" types of volumes, so why not a real disk? The hardware in the virtual machine would not match the Mac's "native" hardware, but this could be worked around with Windows' Hardware Profiles feature, you'd just select the one you need at startup (or have some other mechanism that "knows" which one to use).

 

[Joseph Papier]

Same for me! It would be absolutely great. I could launch parallels in most cases, and reboot if what i need to do needs 3D acceleration or direct hardware access. VMWare can do that in Windows... let's hope that MacOS X and/or EFI and GUID does not restrict that!