In contrast, Bootcamp partition expansion is an order of magnitude more painful and requires re-installation of Windows (Winclone has a workaround). It is a bit of work to expand a VMware installation virtual disk, but it is possible. One additional advantage of VMware (and other VM solutions) is the ability to expand the virtual disk based on available underlying physical drive space. It does not require a virtual disk, it will use the Bootcamp filesystem.īootcamp requires a partition, but VMware can be used (without Bootcamp being installed) using a virtual disk. VMware will boot a Windows installation on the Bootcamp partition without a reboot normally required if there was no Vmware layer. I also have a 256Gb partition for Bootcamp (on a different machine) which is a much more independent installation where I can locally store documents.

I have a 32Gb W8.1 installation, but there is very little non-OS information on the C: drive. It depends on how much local data you want to keep on the Windows side.

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