installing parallels...hd partitioning

[jvaska]

i am seting up a new macbook and i am not sure how to partition things. we have a 120g drive...i want a partition that could hold osx and xp...if this is correct. but what might be a good size for this?

will 40g be enough?

is there anything else i should consider?

 

[After G]

I think 40 G is good. Give more to the system you will use more

 

[dukebound85]

i dont think parallels needs partitioning, only bootcamp does

 

[robbieduncan]

i dont think parallels needs partitioning, only bootcamp does

Exactly correct. Parallels can just use a big file on your OSX partition as a "virtual partition" to run Windows (or Linux) from. It can even compress this file so it's smaller than the actual size reported to Windows.

 

[After G]

Oops, thought the OP wanted to use Bootcamp with Parallels. I hear that a lot lately.