Need to load Windows on an iMac, Advice please...

The boss has VMFusion and needs to load it on his iMac, I've never done this so need a 101.
Thanks in advance,
Geoff

No. VMware Fusion uses virtual hard drive image files. Windows (or whatever) guest OS you are installing mounts and uses these image files as if they are real hard drives. The image files are store on your Mac's hard drive volume, like any other file (except they tend to be bigger than most files). Setting up these image files is part of the wizard for adding a new virtual machine.
So there are no separate partitions being used, unless you want to install the guest OS on a separate partition. You can use VMware Fusion that way, but it is far more flexible to use the hard drive image files. For one thing, using the image files, you can install as many virtual machines as you want, limited only by the Mac's storage capacity. So you can have one for Windows XP, one for Windows 7, one for Ubuntu Linux, etc.

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beardedbob wrote:
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