change the MAC address
Somewhere in another thread someone suggested changing the Parallels address from a 10.x.x.x address to the physical address of the NIC card. This does work. I am running Windows XP in a Parallels VM that uses my boot camp partition. I can boot between the VM and boot camp and my Microsoft apps run in both without complaining about activation.
Here's the drill:
1. In System Preferences on the Mac, start the Network utility
2. Select the ethernet controller on your Mac (on the the Mac Pro there are 2. Choose the one you have a network cable plugged into.) Select the Ethernet button and write down the "Ethernet ID" number.
3. Open Parallels but do not start the VM
4. Go to the Edit menu and edit the virtual machine configuration
5. Select Network
6. In the next window select Advanced
7. Highlight the mac address and type in the address from the Network utility (the one you wrote down in step 2 above) in its place.
8. Back out of the configuration menu.
9. If you already activated the MS applications within boot camp, they should now work fine in the VM.
This worked for me.
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