Hi, Im considering buying parallels and yes I have heard alot of problems with the software in this forum but I still wanted to give it a try. Since, I am buying the new macbook pro 17 inch for education use, more specifically developing games using systems like ps3 and xbox and so forth. I need the power of virtualised windows and mac to very efficiently play games. My question is: 1) Will parallels run moreefficiently with a boot camp partition or without? 2) If it will run faster with a partition, then will I be able to access mac from the native boot camp running windows? 3) If not #2 then is there any possible way to run mac in a vm while in windows utilizing parallels? Thanks in advance, Tim
Just wanted to know if you guys have any questions I could answer to make the process smoother while Im waiting? Thanks, Tim
1) Yes. 2)You'll need something that can read HFS+, like 'HFSExplorer' (free), or 'Macdrive'. 3)Not really.
Thanks for the response specimen! By the way, just wanted to be sure we are on the same page. Did you mean #1) is yes, meaning that parallels will run much effieciently with a windows boot camp partition? or did you mean without? Secondly, I could have sworn-and Im not positive and maybe not seeing things correctly- I saw somewhere on these forums that it is possible to run mac(via vm or something) and windows(not or with vm?) by using parallels? Thanks again! Tim
Oh yeah, I ignored the 'without' in your question, now that a re read the question I think the without is unnecessary. I mean Yes it runs faster with bootcamp. The only supported virtualization of a Mac is Mac OS Server under Parallels Desktop or Parallels Server running on OSX.
ok thanks. Will my analysis then be correct if I said the configuration would be similar to: 1) Hardware>OS>Parallels; for Parallels without bootcamp? 2) Hardware>OS>Parallels>OS; for Parallels with bootcamp? Im asking this becuase if this holds true then wouldnt there be an extra step in the process for running Parallels with bootcamp? In turn meaning a less efficient run time if Im correct? Thanks, Tim
You're way off. The difference is that the disk instead of being a file (virtual disk) it's a real partition.
