bootcamp and parallels

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bootcamp and parallels

I currently run XP in parallels, and since upgrade to leopard all works fine,

but my question is, can i boot my parallels disk in bootcamp, i would like to beable to do this as you can still run the bootcamp drives in parallels.

is this possible i have looked but cant find an answer

Black MacBook 2.16, Mac OS X (10.5), 2G

Posted on Oct 30, 2007 9:19 AM

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Answer 1

Oct 30, 2007 9:25 AM in response to freefalladdict

I think it depends on the version of parallels you have.

I have been using my bootcamp drive in parallels for a while now, but if I recall correctly, that feature was added later on with parallels. So if you have an earlier version of parallels, you may not have that option.

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Answer 2

Oct 30, 2007 9:25 AM in response to freefalladdict

Yes you can run Parallels your bootcamp

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Answer 3

bunger

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Oct 30, 2007 9:27 AM in response to freefalladdict

I am not sure what you are getting at here. Is your XP installation currently a full Parallels virtual machine, or did you first install XP via Bootcamp before Parallels?

The only thing that Bootcamp really lets you do is carve up your physical hard drive to allow OS X on one partition and windows on another partition, and then provides Windows-specific drivers. It is NOT virtualization software like Parallels.

So... if you have installed Windows into a Parallels virtual machine, you are basically stuck with that..

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Answer 4

Oct 30, 2007 9:30 AM in response to bunger

thank you bunger your post was very helpful

yes i installed in parallels first so im stuck with that unless i re-install in bootcamp then use parallels if i want to run side by side,

i have the latest version of parallels so that will work

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Answer 5

bunger

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Oct 30, 2007 10:51 AM in response to freefalladdict

Mule,

That is exactly correct. You would need to reinstall Windows XP via Bootcamp (which would reduce the amount of space on your drive that OS X has available as it would carve out that space for Windows) and then created a new Parallels "virtual machine" that points to Bootcamp. Unfortunately, I don't think there is any tool/utility that would convert your existing Parallels install into a real, physical disk image...

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Answer 6

Nov 19, 2007 1:03 PM in response to bunger

So what would the advantage be of doing it this way? I am about to configure a new machine and would like to optimize the setup with as much flexibility in mind. This sounds like a good idea as described in this discussion.

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