Parallels: MIgrating from PC Question

[LastLine]

I've tried looking on Parallels support on this but I've come up with nothing, I've also tried a brief search here but again no definitive response.


If I use Parallels 7 to migrate a Windows machine to my Mac, does this in ANY way affect my existing Windows installation on the PC? Just concerned that if I do it and don't like the performance I may end up losing my exisiting desktop PC.



Any experiences much appreciated.

 

[D.T.]

No, it just bundles up the OS, programs (and optionally standard user data like documents, music, etc.) into an image and moves it to the Mac.

I did it with my HP to migrate an image over to Parallels. Worked great (I moved over my data manually).

The issue however, is with licensing and activation. Once I got the VM up and running it needed activation in a few days. It worked fine, and I've since booted my HP briefly, but I believe there will be some issue with the old HP machine ... probably something to the effect of not allowing future updates, etc.

However, I believe I could re-activate the HP if needed.

I was in the same boat, moving over my development environment, and if it had failed, I would need to get the old machine back up and running ASAP.

 

[LastLine]

No, it just bundles up the OS, programs (and optionally standard user data like documents, music, etc.) into an image and moves it to the Mac.

I did it with my HP to migrate an image over to Parallels. Worked great (I moved over my data manually).

The issue however, is with licensing and activation. Once I got the VM up and running it needed activation in a few days. It worked fine, and I've since booted my HP briefly, but I believe there will be some issue with the old HP machine ... probably something to the effect of not allowing future updates, etc.

However, I believe I could re-activate the HP if needed.

I was in the same boat, moving over my development environment, and if it had failed, I would need to get the old machine back up and running ASAP.

Thanks for the feedback. I've come to the conclusion that I will probably go for boot camp in the end. Parallels seems nice (tried the trial) but doesn't offer support for a particular game I want to run in it Boot Camp is coming.

 

[D.T.]

Thanks for the feedback. I've come to the conclusion that I will probably go for boot camp in the end. Parallels seems nice (tried the trial) but doesn't offer support for a particular game I want to run in it Boot Camp is coming.

NP.

If I was considering any gaming, I'd probably go with the BC ... but since it's for development, and I need/want my OSX environment available concurrently, I opted for Parallels (running the previous v6).