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From: flarosa on 11 Jul 2008 23:49 I've got an Intel Mac on which I've used Bootcamp to install Windows Vista. Vista runs great, but I'd like to convert it to a virtual machine using Parallels or VMWare (not sure which one is better?). If I install one of the VM products, will it recognize my existing Windows partition and boot it? Or will I be stuck doing a complete reinstall of Windows? (How will this affect my Windows license?). Thanks.
From: Mac Guy on 12 Jul 2008 00:23 On 2008-07-11 22:49:45 -0500, flarosa <frank(a)franklarosa.com> said: > I've got an Intel Mac on which I've used Bootcamp to install Windows > Vista. > > Vista runs great, but I'd like to convert it to a virtual machine > using Parallels or VMWare (not sure which one is better?). > > If I install one of the VM products, will it recognize my existing > Windows partition and boot it? Or will I be stuck doing a complete > reinstall of Windows? (How will this affect my Windows license?). > > Thanks. === Parallels can use the Bootcamp partition. There still could be issues where Vista "thinks" this is new hardware and complain. Frankly, I've done this with Vista between a Dell and Parallels they both got activated (this was a retail upgrade Vista)
From: Greg Buchner on 12 Jul 2008 10:24 In article <58db050e-0975-4eff-b904-91e2ff577677(a)b1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>, flarosa <frank(a)franklarosa.com> wrote: > I've got an Intel Mac on which I've used Bootcamp to install Windows > Vista. > > Vista runs great, but I'd like to convert it to a virtual machine > using Parallels or VMWare (not sure which one is better?). > > If I install one of the VM products, will it recognize my existing > Windows partition and boot it? Or will I be stuck doing a complete > reinstall of Windows? (How will this affect my Windows license?). Mac Guy gave you some information about Parallels, so I'll do VMWare Fusion. Fusion will use your Boot Camp partition (I do this), and when you boot up, don't reactivate your copy of Window. (It should want to.) Install the included VMWare Tools first, then reactivate it. This should let you switch back and forth between booting via Fusion or Boot Camp without Windows whining it's way back to Microsoft... Greg B. -- Actual e-mail address is gregbuchner and I'm located at gmail.com
From: flarosa on 12 Jul 2008 16:50
Hi, Thanks for the reply. I installed Parallels with a 15 day trial license and it did use my Boot Camp partition, and Windows didn't even complain about wanting to be reactivated, which was my main concern. However, there were many other issues that came up. I have the Windows version of Photoshop on my Vista partition, and it won't run under Parallels (it complains about the license being invalid). I have a USB license dongle attached to my computer that I use for some music software, and the music software doesn't see the dongle, nor does it see my external USB audio device. I would guess that the latter two are matters of assigning the USB devices to the VM instead of the Mac OS, or telling the audio app to use the default sound drivers. Other apps such as Sony Vegas ran OK but so slowly that it wasn't worth running them. In any case, after I spent half an hour with it, I decided that it was an interesting curiosity but I'd just as soon boot Windows natively when I need to run Windows apps, which isn't often. Frank On Jul 11, 11:23 pm, Mac Guy <g...(a)pc-topgun.com> wrote: > Parallels can use the Bootcamp partition. There still could be issues > where Vista "thinks" this is new hardware and complain. > > Frankly, I've done this with Vista between a Dell and Parallels they > both got activated (this was a retail upgrade Vista) |