I am wondering if I can use parallels to boot a linux that has been installed on a second (and third disk)? I migrated to a macpro and simply added my linux disks, installed a new linux on a spare disk, installed reffit and booted. I have installed parallels and wondered if I could also boot the new linux directly without needing to reinstall linux. I have tried to configure the parallels virtual machine to use a seperate partition for booting but cannot figure out the mapping in the virtual machine configuration screen (sata 0:1). Is it possible to do what I am asking? Boot a hardware partition directly and how to configure it? My layout is below. Disk 1 and 3 are the actually harddrives (using md and lvm), disk 2 is the second drive where linux is install. Thanks $ diskutil list /dev/disk0 /dev/disk0 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk0 1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1 2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 999.9 GB disk0s2 loup:~ kgk$ diskutil list /dev/disk1 /dev/disk1 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: FDisk_partition_scheme *500.1 GB disk1 1: Linux_RAID 255.0 MB disk1s1 2: Linux_RAID 499.9 GB disk1s5 loup:~ kgk$ diskutil list /dev/disk0 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk0 1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1 2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 999.9 GB disk0s2 /dev/disk1 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: FDisk_partition_scheme *500.1 GB disk1 1: Linux_RAID 255.0 MB disk1s1 2: Linux_RAID 499.9 GB disk1s5 /dev/disk2 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk2 1: EFI 209.7 MB disk2s1 2: Microsoft Basic Data 984.0 GB disk2s2 3: Linux Swap 16.0 GB disk2s3 /dev/disk3 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: FDisk_partition_scheme *500.1 GB disk3 1: Linux_RAID 255.0 MB disk3s1 2: Linux_RAID 499.9 GB disk3s5
