Boot Camp - running OS X partition as a VM
There is a legal impediment to run Mac OS X on Non-Apple hardware [sic!].
VMware Player &amp; VMware Workstation therefore officially don't support the installation of Mac OS X on any hardware.
Breaking several EULAs you might install a patch to circumvent this restriction (I will not provide a link for the patches)



  Then with Workstation and a patch, you can boot into your OS X partition from Windows.
  
  But in order to access your macintosh HD partition first, you must create a blank OS X virtual machine.
  
  Note that Macintosh HD here means your OS X partition in your internal hard drive.
  
  Source


I didn't test this! So a full Time Machine backup and a full Boot Camp-partition backup deems advisable.