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Use partition as a Virtual Machine

Hi All,

I have a laptop with a dual boot Windows / MX Linux.

Laptop has 2 drives - a M2 1 TB and a 1TB SSD (2.5").  The M2 drive is the boot drive, with a grub bootloader. I selec Linux, or I can select the windows bootloader.

I want to be able to dual boot into MX Linux, and also access MX Linux without rebooting into it.


Someone in a Linux forum suggested I can create a VMWare 'virtual' machine using a physical drive.

The layout is: the 1 TB M2 drive has a 700 GB partition running windows, and a 300 GB (roughly) partition for Linux

I selected Use physical disk, then use partition. The partition wouldn't boot in VMware. Is there something I need to do? I think I read I need to umnount the partition first in Linux?

Is there an easier way to do this?

Thanks!

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