Moving from Bootcamp to Parallels 6

[musiclover408]

Hi...
I currently use Windows XP on a separate hard drive on my MacPro. I am tired of having to reboot every time I want to switch between Windows and MacOS. So I just purchased Parallels 6 and was wondering how I can get everything that is already installed on the Windows hard drive to transfer over to the Parallels program??

I appreciate anyone's help here!

Thanks!!

 

[gr8tfly]

You should be able to continue to use the same drive as a VM, so everything will be the same as if you booted natively.

Create a new VM and tell it you are using Bootcamp. It will use your physical partition as the HD for the VM. When it first boots, it will automatically install the Parallels Tools to enable proper integration with the OS-X environment.

The exact steps are covered in the Parallels user manual.

Edit: note that Parallels 7 is the latest; I believe if you just bought v6, you should be able to get the upgrade for free.

 

[musiclover408]

Edit: note that Parallels 7 is the latest; I believe if you just bought v6, you should be able to get the upgrade for free.

Thanks for the info. Do you know what changed from 6 to 7? I bought 6 from an Ebay member but it is still sealed so it is new and never registered so I don't know if I qualify to upgrade to 7 for free.

 

[summitRun]

Link

Using Boot Camp Partition in Virtual Machine

 

[gr8tfly]

Thanks for the info. Do you know what changed from 6 to 7? I bought 6 from an Ebay member but it is still sealed so it is new and never registered so I don't know if I qualify to upgrade to 7 for free.

You probably should go to their site - they have a list of the improvements and new features. Those include better integration with Lion (mostly if you are using the VM in full screen mode).

They have all the info on what's required for a free upgrade. I would think if the serial hasn't been used, you should qualify. I don't know the specifics, though. You might need to first install 6, but I'm really just making an educated guess here.