Installing Fusion onto my BootCamp drive

I have a drive dedicated to BootCamp w/ an XP installation/apps set up just the way I want it.
Can I additionally install Fusion on this drive w/out having to re-install everything so that I have access to XP and my windows apps from both BootCamp and Fusion?
Any suggestions on specific instructions on how to do this since I don't think this would b ea "standard" Fusion installation.
tia

You can do this of course. After installing Fusion, it can detect your Boot Camp partition and you can thus run your Windows without rebooting. However, you have to re-register your Windows. And next time if you go to Windows using Boot Camp, you have to register your Windows AGAIN! (Actually, I re-register my WinXP 3 times.} But now I can freely switch between Boot Camp and Fusion without re-registration anymore.
But for my OfficeXP, when I switch from Boot Camp to Fusion or vice versa, I still have to re-activate it. So I just use my OfficeXP in Boot Camp environment to avoid the trouble.

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