have i done this wrong?

[otispunkmeyer]

i installed paralles...

then i thought about doing boot camp

then i though ahhhh...will i have to make another install of XP? or can i use the one parallels made?

 

[robbieduncan]

Bootcamp cannot use a Parallels VM image. It needs it's own partition. Parallels can use a Bootcamp partition though.

 

[showtime]

Bootcamp cannot use a Parallels VM image. It needs it's own partition. Parallels can use a Bootcamp partition though.

Does that use more hard drive space or is it just booting from your boot camp partition?

 

[robbieduncan]

Does that use more hard drive space or is it just booting from your boot camp partition?

You can tell Parallels to boot from the Bootcamp partition: no more disk space (or even a virtual HD file) required.

 

[otispunkmeyer]

heh so i did it the wrong way round

i assume removing parallels and the xp install isnt too hard. then i just need to go through it all over again with bootcamp, then have parallels mooch off of it.