Parallels vm disk location?

[MarkC426]

I have installed Parallels trial into Mojave to try a High Sierra vm.
When I select the install of HS, it gives me two locations for the vm, one is the .dmg (ghosted out), the other is called Macintosh HD, but only has 68gb avail (for vm).
Problem is my original drive from years back has this same name.

Is it trying to create vm on my old hd (which I don’t want to touch), or does parallels install vm’s on the boot drive?
[doublepost=1559479719][/doublepost]Ok I figured it out, before installing an os you can go to utilities (in the parallels interface) and open a disk utility and rename the vm Hdd name (which is on the boot drive......).

However..........upon launching HS in a vm, it’s pretty crappy.......
Whether this is a limitation of the trial, it is limited to 1024x768 with 64mb vram, 2gb system ram (everything ghosted out). I’m not spending out if I don’t know if it will work......whole point of a trial.

 

[Stephen.R]

Whether this is a limitation of the trial, it is limited to 1024x768 with 64mb vram, 2gb system ram (everything ghosted out). I’m not spending out if I don’t know if it will work......whole point of a trial.

Make sure you shut down the VM before trying to change things. You can't alter emulated hardware while it's running.

I run a High Sierra VM under Parallels (for Billings Server) and while it's not as fast as the native macOS, it's plenty fast enough.

 

[MarkC426]

I think in this instance it probably wont fit my needs.
I was looking to run 3d graphics software, maybe not a good idea in a vm.