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PepsoDismal
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Use a physical 10.6 Server disk with Fusion

With the up coming release of Lion I have installed Snow Leopard Server on to a new internal hard drive on my Mac Pro.

Is there as way of using this drive (along with my Boot Camp drive with Windows 7 on) in Fusion so that I a) do not have to take up space on my main drive with another VM (I have XP as a VM) or b) so I don't have to reboot my Mac to use Snow Leopard?

I apologies if this has already been covered but I was unable to find a post that covered my question!

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WoodyZ
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I have not tried to run OS X Server as a Raw Disk like is done with the Boot Camp partition however you certain can give it a try.  This (creating the Raw Disk .vmdk) is not supported via the VMware Fusion GUI and will need to be created manually and then added to a OS X Server Virtual Machine created via the VMware Fusion GUI.  You should be able to glean the information necessary to accomplish this from Re: harddisk not found.

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