I have a dual-boot system with OS X and Ubuntu on my Mac. A friend told me that he uses Fusion to launch his Boot Camp-installed Windows as a virtual machine. Can Fusion do that with a physical Ubuntu-install as well?
Apple only supports Windows XP and Vista under Boot Camp and in turn VMware only supports what Apple supports. That said VMware's implementation of running the Boot Camp partition as a Virtual Machine is flawed and can be problematic since Apple doesn't guarantee the BSD Name of a Volume and VMware didn't account for this and this has it own set of issues and has been covered before in this forum so I'm not going to reiterate. Now with that said if you really want to attempt to virtualize an unsupported Boot Camp configuration you can attempt to create a Virtual Machine around it using a Raw Disk and this can be done with vmware-rawdiskcreator so have a look at my replies in as a reference to using vmware-rawdiskcreator.
Also by default on a normal Boot Camp partition Virtual Machine Fusion cannot Suspend and Snapshot the Boot Camp partition Virtual Machine and I do not know the parameters for Fusion 2.x to add to the Virtual Machines .vmx configuration file when manually creating a Virtual Machine from the Boot Camp partition and will warn you that if you Suspend or Snapshot the manually created Boot Camp partition Virtual Machine and then run it natively you can potentially corrupt it beyond repair.
Now do you really want to take any chances virtualizing an unsupported OS on the Boot Camp partition with a product that doesn't even handle a supported OS properly under the current circumstances?
