Windows virtual machine on a Mac mini

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You don't have to partition the Fusion Drive to use a virtual machine. Depending on the app you use to make a virtual machine, the virtual machine is stored in Documents folder as a virtual hard drive, so you don't have to worry about it.
You can use Parallels, VMware Fusion or VirtualBox to create a virtual machine. VirtualBox is free and works correctly, so I suggest you to try that one first

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    <CFArray 0x127bb0 [0xa087e1a0]>{type = mutable-small, count = 1, values = (
    0 : <CFDictionary 0x10fa70 [0xa087e1a0]>{type = mutable, count = 3, capacity = 3, pairs = (
    0 : <CFString 0x127230 [0xa087e1a0]>{contents = "dsAttrTypeStandard:RecordName"} = <CFArray 0x1273d0 [0xa087e1a0]>{type = mutable-small, count = 1, values = (
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    Message was edited by: capc

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