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Re: Launch Windows VM on startup before logon on Fusion 5?

Just an FYI...  What you're wanting to do is not officially supported in any way shape or form and if you do implement it be aware you'll have a greater chance at trashing the virtual hard disk beyond repair.  So however you end up implementing it you need to have a good backup and restore regime in place and do not rely on Time Machine for backing up the VM's themselves.

 

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It is a known fact that Time Machine is not 100% reliable backing up/restoring Virtual Machines under all circumstances/conditions.  Also backing up Virtual Machines via Time Machine is disk/time intensive and wastes a tremendous amount of space for something that may be corrupt and worthless come time to restore it.  At a minimum I would exclude Virtual Machines from Time Machine and with the Virtual Machines shutdown, not suspended, and VMware Fusion closed then manually copy the Virtual Machines Package(s) to an alternate location, preferably on to a different physical hard disk.  Then keep the User Data that is stored within the Virtual Machine backed up off of the Virtual Machine on a regular basis so as to always have a current User Data Backup.  If you have to restore a properly backed up Virtual Machine that is not as current at least you'll have a working Virtual Machine and current User Data to go forward with when you find out your Time Machine Backup of the Virtual Machine fails.


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