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I'm wondering the same thing. Even trickier: on a Mac using VMWare Fusion, you can have a Windows partition that you can both boot into and run as a VM within

I'm wondering the same thing. Even trickier: on a Mac using VMWare Fusion, you can have a Windows partition that you can both boot into and run as a VM within OS X.

Arnout 11y ago
I last tried the bootcamp/vmware setup with a Vista partition; it really confused the activation system and kept de-activating.
wila 11y ago
You cannot run windows 10 upgrade on a bootcamp machine that you also use as a VM for the moment. What has been reported to work is to buy Windows 10 license and then you can use the machine on bootcamp as well as via VM. More details here: https://communities.vmware.com/thread/516838 https://communities.vmware.com/thread/516838
- jcoby 11y ago
  FWIW I upgraded to windows 10 on my bootcamp partition 100% through vmware fusion using the official win10 iso. I got the same error you linked until the latest rollup fix (which put my install into a boot loop due to nvidia geforce creating a phantom user but that's a whole different problem). Once I installed the rollup it gave a different error and then took a day or two for the activation servers to finally work and activate the install. I only run windows natively to play games so it only runs for 2-3 hours at a time. It took until yesterday to get it all sorted out. I installed win10 within a few hours of the iso going up.
  - wila 11y ago
    That's great news! Thanks for the heads up. If possible please also post this at the forum thread that I referred to.
reirob 11y ago
Doing the same on Linux box with Windows 7: a partition with Linux and a partition with Windows 7 + NTFS partition for data that is visible on both. You can boot both systems or use the same Windows in a VM under Linux. But it was tricky to build that VM. I followed instructions from [0], but don't remember if I had any troubles. Even if Windows itself when running in the VM, MS Office complains that it's not registered - I guess MS Office uses a different method to determine if it runs on the same hardware. Was not worth to bother for me because I have to use Windows only short times from the VM - and if I have to use it over extended periods I boot directly to it. But it would have been slick if it worked 100%. [0] http://geekery.amhill.net/2010/01/27/virtualbox-with-existing-windows-partition/ http://geekery.amhill.net/2010/01/27/virtualbox-with-existin...

I'm wondering the same thing. Even trickier: on a Mac using VMWare Fusion, you can have a Windows partition that you can both boot into and run as a VM within OS X.

Arnout 11y ago

I last tried the bootcamp/vmware setup with a Vista partition; it really confused the activation system and kept de-activating.

wila 11y ago

You cannot run windows 10 upgrade on a bootcamp machine that you also use as a VM for the moment. What has been reported to work is to buy Windows 10 license and then you can use the machine on bootcamp as well as via VM. More details here: https://communities.vmware.com/thread/516838 https://communities.vmware.com/thread/516838

jcoby 11y ago
FWIW I upgraded to windows 10 on my bootcamp partition 100% through vmware fusion using the official win10 iso. I got the same error you linked until the latest rollup fix (which put my install into a boot loop due to nvidia geforce creating a phantom user but that's a whole different problem). Once I installed the rollup it gave a different error and then took a day or two for the activation servers to finally work and activate the install. I only run windows natively to play games so it only runs for 2-3 hours at a time. It took until yesterday to get it all sorted out. I installed win10 within a few hours of the iso going up.
- wila 11y ago
  That's great news! Thanks for the heads up. If possible please also post this at the forum thread that I referred to.

reirob 11y ago

Doing the same on Linux box with Windows 7: a partition with Linux and a partition with Windows 7 + NTFS partition for data that is visible on both. You can boot both systems or use the same Windows in a VM under Linux. But it was tricky to build that VM. I followed instructions from [0], but don't remember if I had any troubles. Even if Windows itself when running in the VM, MS Office complains that it's not registered - I guess MS Office uses a different method to determine if it runs on the same hardware. Was not worth to bother for me because I have to use Windows only short times from the VM - and if I have to use it over extended periods I boot directly to it. But it would have been slick if it worked 100%. [0] http://geekery.amhill.net/2010/01/27/virtualbox-with-existing-windows-partition/ http://geekery.amhill.net/2010/01/27/virtualbox-with-existin...