VMWare for XP and Boot Camp for Vista?

[peakoilpete]

I would like to run XP under a VMWare partition for old Windows application support and Vista for Gaming. Is the following setup possible?

Assuming 500GB HD

Boot Camp 1: 350GB OSX with VMWare 50GB XP sub partition
Boot Camp 2: 100GB Vista

or am I misunderstanding how these partitions are supposed to work?

 

[Infrared]

I would like to run XP under a VMWare partition for old Windows application support and Vista for Gaming. Is the following setup possible?

Assuming 500GB HD

Boot Camp 1: 350GB OSX with VMWare 50GB XP sub partition
Boot Camp 2: 100GB Vista

or am I misunderstanding how these partitions are supposed to work?

Looks fine. The 'sub partition' is a file, strictly speaking,
rather than a real partition, but that's not important.

 

[The Menacer]

I would like to run XP under a VMWare partition for old Windows application support and Vista for Gaming. Is the following setup possible?

Assuming 500GB HD

Boot Camp 1: 350GB OSX with VMWare 50GB XP sub partition
Boot Camp 2: 100GB Vista

or am I misunderstanding how these partitions are supposed to work?

What you would do is partition your hard drive through the Boot Camp Utility into 350 and 100GB partitions. On the 350GB partition, which is your main one (with OS X on it), you will install VMWare. On the 100GB partition, install vista through the BCU.