Running Off Of A USB Drive

Hi, I was wondering if you can run Parallels Desktop 7 with Windows 7 off of a usb drive or external hard drive so that you don't have to use computer hard drive space. This would be awesome if you could.

Thanks

 

Parallels the program itself, no. But the Virtual Machines (.pvm files) can be moved anywhere and are perfectly portable, I personally keep some VMs in an external drive.

 

What do you mean by the virtual machine itself? Does that mean all of my windows partition could be on an external only and run it off there?

 

Parallels Desktop is a program that runs virtual machines, the program has to be installed on OSX.
The virtual machine is essentially a virtual disk, which is basically just one large file/bundle (*.pvm) that can be moved around. Virtual Machine is the term that represents the virtualization of an operating system like Windows. I don't know how else I can explain this.

 

Thanks, now I understand!