arstechnica.com — "A very persistent and very brave ex-Boot Camp user posted his (rather complex) process on the Parallels forums about how he managed to convert his Boot Camp install of Windows XP over to his Parallels install, thereby enabling himself to get rid of his Boot Camp partition in favor of the virtualization software du jour."
Jul 18, 2006 View in Crawl 4
dogearedboyJul 18, 2006
Seems to me it would be easier to just back up your data and then reinstall XP in Parallels.For the record, I'm running a Virtual XP machine on my Macbook. (2Ghz Duo w/ 2GB RAM)I'm only giving Windows 384MB of RAM and the system runs great in both Operating Systems. I can even play video in the virtual machine. I run it most of the day in the background since I stream XM radio and it's sometimes a bit buggy on the MAC side of things.
captainscarletJul 18, 2006
Blah Blah Blah..You still cant use it to play the high graphic intensive games (the only need for windows)....I'll stick to boot camp and go play Oblivion on my 17" Macbook Pro then...
danglermanJul 18, 2006
damm! I submitted this story a couple of days ago. Why...oh why<a class="user" href="http://digg.com/software/How_to_Use_Your_Bootcamp_Partition_for_Parallels">http://digg.com/software/How_to_Use_Your_Bootcamp_Partition_for_Parallels</a>
aaronhoffmanJul 18, 2006
Inability to right click in Boot Camp? I've never experienced that problem with my Mighty Mouse.Are you sure you installed the provided drivers properly?
coolbruJul 18, 2006
It certainly would be nice. According to their FAQ, it's on Parallels' wish list already, along with things like Linux additions.
localhJul 18, 2006
@cerebral:No, that's a "googol". A Google is Google, period.