S superspiffy macrumors 6502a Original poster Feb 6, 2007 740 0 Sep 25, 2007 #1 I made a Windows Vista partition with Boot Camp to play games. But I also want to install Parallels for those quick things I do in Windows. So can I use Parallels with a Windows partition already made by Boot Camp?
I made a Windows Vista partition with Boot Camp to play games. But I also want to install Parallels for those quick things I do in Windows. So can I use Parallels with a Windows partition already made by Boot Camp?
mkrishnan Moderator emeritus Jan 9, 2004 29,776 15 Grand Rapids, MI, USA Sep 25, 2007 #3 Reading materials.
S superspiffy macrumors 6502a Original poster Feb 6, 2007 740 0 Sep 25, 2007 #4 I don't know how to setup Parallels to recognize the BootCamp partition already there
Duff-Man Contributor Dec 26, 2002 2,984 17 Albuquerque, NM Sep 25, 2007 #5 Duff-Man says...perhaps looking/searching through the Windows on the Mac forum here wouyld be a good place to start.....oh yeah!
Duff-Man says...perhaps looking/searching through the Windows on the Mac forum here wouyld be a good place to start.....oh yeah!
devnill macrumors newbie Sep 20, 2007 20 0 London town Sep 26, 2007 #6 I would say no, as Parrallels creates a separate virtual machine in a file on the OS X file system.
I Impulse29 macrumors member Apr 12, 2004 62 0 Sep 27, 2007 #7 devnill, I would say you're wrong There are different options, and one is to use the Boot Camp drive for parallels.
devnill, I would say you're wrong There are different options, and one is to use the Boot Camp drive for parallels.