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polishsumgai

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I am trying to load a Windows program from DirecTV to watch movies on my iMac.

http://www.directv.com/directv2pc

The s/w installation errors out at the end of the routine " Install DirectX9 or above"

I assume Parallels v:5.0 is not v:9.0 of DirectX !

Is there a source to update DirectX to v:9.0 in Parallels 5?

What version of DirectX is in version Parallels6?

Anyone have any luck installing this DirecTV application?

TIA

UPDATE : Info found at DirecTV

http://forums.directv.com/pe/action/forums/displaythread?postID=10508163&ie=x#e10508163



The Parallels Desktop application does indeed support you using a Bootcamp partition as a virtual machine disk within the Parallels application. In fact, there are two ways you can hook in the Boot Camp partition, either as a bootable vm, or as a secondary hard disk on another WinXP vm (that is, as disk "D:" or similar).


http://www.askdavetaylor.com/use_winxp_boot_camp_partition_in_parallels.html
 
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