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1. Install Ubuntu on the partition of your choosing
2. Install VMWare Fusion
3. Get Grub Super Disk 2 (http://www.supergrubdisk.org/category/download/supergrub2diskdownload/super-grub2-disk-stable/)
4. Determine which partition you have Ubuntu installed to using "diskutil list"
5. Create the VMWare Configuration
  a.  Create a new VM
  b.  "Create a Custom Virtual Machine"
  c.  Type "Linux->Ubuntu 64 bit"
  d.  Either use the defaults or customize to your needs.
6. Create the virtual disk mapping to the real partition (this assumes you use the default names)