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cagz
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Contributor

Monterey and Fusion 12.2.3 boot camp issues

Trying to setup a boot camp VM for the first time.

Boot camp is setup correctly, boots up fine if I use the option key.

It also works fine with Parallels so I am assuming the Windows itself is fine.

When I try to create boot camp VM I get the error: The Boot Camp volume is not prepared to run as a virtual machine. It appears that Windows did not shut down cleanly the last time it was used.

I followed VMware recommendation (changing startup disk to Windows from macOS and reverse) several times and I am quite sure it is actually shutdown correctly.

Log file is attached.

According to this fusion finds the correct drive and windows directories, but then fails.

I tried all other older recommendations in these forums, not sure what I can do next.

Thanks

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Mikero
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Community Manager

Try deleting the bootcamp VM from the Fusion Library and re-'run' it.

This doesn't delete your BC partition itself, just the VMware 'stubs' that point to it... Deleting and re-creating them should force a re-read of the partition table and set it up properly.

 

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Michael Roy - Product Marketing Engineer: VCF
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cagz
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Thank you for the response.

Tried it many times. Including deleting Boot Camp folder and related plists before trying again. The same issue even with a fresh setup I am afraid.

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Nusi1
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Contributor

I am having this issue with the same version numbers and same OS. Were you able to solve this issue?

I am currently booting into window whenever i need it. 

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ColoradoMarmot
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Was boot camp created with the Apple boot camp wizard?

And the OP was using both Fusion and Parallels - I strongly suspect that might be part of the issue.  Use one or the other.

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