I'm running VMWare Fusion on a Boot Camp partition. When I launch the virtual machine, I see the C:\ drive which is the BOOTCAMP partition, but I don't see the other hard drive (D:) which is visible when launching boot camp directly. I realize that I can drag and drop files between OS X and the virtual machine, but I was wondering if this is the only method of accessing OS X files from the virtual machine. Is there no way to have it show the second hard drive so that every file I want to access doesn't have to be copied over?
Accessing files from Mac OS X in VMWare Fusion
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Yes. The virtual machine creates virtual machine files, the data on the volume is separate from that.
Take a look at these two questions:
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It sounds to me as if the correct application will launch once you tell OS X which application it should use.
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Best Answer
I recommend using the Shared Folders feature in VMware Fusion.
I have a Boot Camp partition as well running Windows 7. When I need to access files that are on the Mac OS X side from within Windows, I go the VM preferences and enable each folder I want to share (you can share multiple folders form different locations). All shared folders will then be shown on the Z:\ drive in Windows.
Hope this helps.