I have tried to search for this but I can't find anything about it. I am currently running Parallels 6 on Mac OS X 10.6.7, with a VM of Win7 Pro x64. I'd like to clone my VM, or something similar, and use that image to install a copy of Windows on a BootCamp partition for dual-boot purposes. Is it possible to do this, maybe using the Acronis software that comes with Parallels 6?
kendellrt, Parallels Desktop supports Boot Camp partitions created with native BootCamp Assistant only, and Parallels Desktop may fail to recognize your customized BootCamp partiton even if you manage to move a VM to BootCamp
attention you need a secund Win7 licence! I tried to do that and it's no way since trying to restore to the bootcamp NTFS partition will not work! With my previous MacBookPro I used either Bootcamp or //desktop6 with my Bootcamp XP_SP3 single one licence! But this is no more blessed on Windows 7: If you try to use your Bootcamp Win7 virtualized thru //desktop6, you'll be prompted to purchase another Win7 licence... Arghh! a lot of bucks to throw thru the window... ;-( If you ignore this gentle warning, after the next attempt to boot, you'll be punished with a "black screen" just few secunds after finishing the boot process. Thanx a lot Microsoft: this is reallay bad since you only have a single hardware, but certainly not 2 computers! Worse, when you boot from //desktop you cannot use in the same time your genuine Bootcamp Win7, so why 2 licences needed?... I was told that VMWare Fusion 3 doesn't need two licences of Win7... If it's true, this will kill //desktop6, because having to purchase a secund Win7 licence for the same hardware is obviously a big issue. I could resurrect from the black screen after booting in safemode and doing a restore from a previous version just cooked before trying this silly boot with //desktop6 attempting to use my Bootcamp partition virtualized. It was the installation of the Parallel tools that corrupted my Win7 letting Microsoft to consider it was a cracked win7 licence instead of a rosebud one... Holy sh... Be aware that in Win7 you may automatically activate the licence without paying attention; this was my case. Hope this helps! regards Bernard (Paris,Fr)
