Boot Camp & Parallels?

[rayray1017]

Hi, i have bootcamp already installed w/a 30 gig partition for xp to reside and was thinking about installing parallels. If i install parallels on my imac, will i have to install xp twice? thanks, Ray

 

[M@lew]

Pretty much you will. The current Beta of Parallels lets you use your XP Bootcamp partition with Parallels but apparently a lot of people have some issues with that. So at the moment, you basically have to have two copies of XP. One for Bootcamp, One for Parallels if you want to use them both at the same time.

 

[72930]

Pretty much you will. The current Beta of Parallels lets you use your XP Bootcamp partition with Parallels but apparently a lot of people have some issues with that. So at the moment, you basically have to have two copies of XP. One for Bootcamp, One for Parallels if you want to use them both at the same time.

You're wrong, with the latest parallels, you can use your boot camp partition

NEW! Better Boot Camp support - Using your Boot Camp partition in Parallels Desktop is now easier than ever. RC2’s Boot Camp support includes:
Full support for FAT32 and NTFS partitions
Easy offline configuration. Simply tell Parallels Desktop that you want to create a virtual machine from a Boot Camp Partition and click start. No complicated set up required!