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Perhaps laptop battery life is a guide? I cannot give a precise answer, but I think my experience is relevant. I "captured" my Boot Camp partition with the second or third 2.5 beta (the first to allow switching back and forth between hardware boot into Windows and running Windows within the...

A few examples Running the Windows machine within the Mac OS requires lots of processor cycles, which means that if Windows is running on a portable Mac the battery will be exhausted more rapidly than if one is using one's MacBook Pro as a single-OS Windows box. Especially when running Windows...

Windows said it couldn't do a repair install because of missing files (System32\HAL.dll and System32\ntoskrnl.exe). I did another Windows XP install to a different folder and copied the missing files into my old installation, and now I have my Boot Camp partition working again.

I made the mistake of suspending the startup of Windows from my Parallels virtual machine with the Win XP OS installed on my Boot Camp partition (I had an urgent need to leave my current location and couldn't wait for the startup of the virtual environment and Win XP boot to complete, so I just...

Further details Turns out my Boot Camp Windows XP Home installation is hosed as well. I was able to boot into it once after the Virtualization solution stopped working. Now Windows hangs during the boot process. Safe Boot found a corrupt file <Windows root>\system32.hal.dll>, and tells me to...

If I have Airport turned off in the Mac OS and I start my virtual machine, can the virtual machine use the internal wireless hardware in a MacBook Pro? My guess is the answer is "no."

Oops: I should say that my installation was build 3094

I installed Parallels beta 2 (build 3036), and for several days I was able to use either booting from Power up into Windows only (my Boot Camp partition) or via Parallels into a virtualized space. Unfortunately, today I screwed up and quit Parallels (the application) while Windows XP was...

When I plug in my Cingular Wireless via a USB cable, nothing happens. Is Activesync not yet supported?

I have a first generation 1.87 GHz MacBook Pro. When I boot into Windows from Parallels (using my Boot Camp partition as the source for the virtual machine) a "cartoon text bubble" alert pops up from the little tiny icons at the lower right of the Windows "window" stating that my screen color...

re: the XP EULA I'm no lawyer, but I had read the securityfocus column you've linked when it first came out, and it clearly bemoans Microsoft's goal of limiting virtualized use of Vista, not XP. So, thus far, I don't see any evidence of the Parallels team encouraging "sponsored piracy" if...

Are you CERTAIN about the XP license limitations? Hi, Don I don't have my XP license in front of me (and if I did I'd need to find my reading glasses to find the relavent fine print), but what I've read about Windows Vista includes lots of grumbling about the supposedly NEW requirement...

I'm asking this question because of the flood of reports of what I'm calling the "Boot Camp/Parallels Windows reactivation dance." The issue seems to be that if one installs Parallels Tools for Boot Camp (at least under many users' conditions), Windows sees "hardware" changes and demands...

The Boot Camp/Parallels Windows reactivation dance Now THAT is good news. Did you start with a FAT32 Boot Camp partition? Any other clues why you were luckier than others? What's your host Mac? What version of the Windows OS are you running (perhaps a stupid question; if you started in Boot...

Boot Camp and endless WinXP reactivation demand Thanks for your input! Being able to capture a Boot Camp partition to run its installed copy of the guest OS is a relatively small step forward for the end user (although perhaps a major tour de force from the programmer's perspective)...

Before I do my first installation of Parallels (to capture my Boot Camp partition), I'm wondering if EVERYONE is being asked (once or repeatedly) to reactivate Windows XP by Microsoft whenever changing the Windows startup method (as a real PC from power-off cold boot or as a virtual machine...