There is no problem if i open the virtual machine (Windows XP SP2) when the virtual hard disk is on the Mac drive. However, i can't open the same (cloned) VM that resides on a network disk. i'm getting this error: "Virtual machine cannot be started because of the following problem: Unable to get the geometry of the virtual hard disk. Perhaps file /PATH is not a valid virtual hard disk image file." The same problem occurs when i'm trying to open VM Ubuntu that resides on that network disk. I have verified that i have read & write permissions on the network disk, and especially on the Parallels files. I don't have this problem when accessing a VM on a network disk in Parallels for Windows. How to resolve this problem ?
This is the answer i got from Support: Hello! Parallels doesn't support booting VMs from network shares now. So we'll have to wait for a next version, in order to be able to put a VM on a network share, so that it could be used by several hosts.
Any update? I tried this as well and it didn't work. I have some huge disk images that I wanted to move to network drives, but Parallels won't let me. Does it matter the file sharing protocol? I'm currently doing a samba mount of a Windows drive. Would a AFP mount work? Or does Parallels require the hard drive image to be local.
This was my workaround: create disk image files (.dmg) using Disk Utility and copy your VMs onto that. Then put the .dmg file on the server. Create an alias of your VM on your local machine. When you launch that, the .dmg should mount and the VM start normally. I hope they fix this.
