Migration of a Bootcamp partition to Parallels: Possible?

[marcjp]

Hi, and apologies in advance if the question is either too basic or the solution has been answered elsewhere...

Here is the environment:
1) An existing MacBook Air with a Mac OSX 10.7.5 82GB SSD partition, and a second BootCamp 30GB SSD partition with Windows 7 Ultimate SP1.
2) A new MacBook Pro 13" Retina with a single Mac OSX 10.8.2 250GB SSD partition.

Here's the question:
Can I migrate the existing MacBook Air's BootCamp partition to the new MacBook Pro, and if so how (i.e. which Parallels version, tools, etc. are required)?

Thanks!
Marc

 

[Andrew@Parallels]

Hi,

There are two ways to accomplish that:

1.
a. Install Parallels Desktop 8 for Mac on your old Mac.
b. Migrate your BootCamp partition as suggested on page 34 of the User Guide: http://www.parallels.com/fileadmin/...port/pd8fm/Parallels_Desktop_User_s_Guide.pdf
c. Uninstall Parallels Desktop from the old Mac (unless you want to have it on both Macs, but you will need two separate licenses then)
d. Install Parallels Desktop on the New Mac
e. Copy your virtual machine from the old Mac to external storage device. You VM is located at Documents/Parallels folder and has PVM extension
f. Plug in your external storage device to the new Mac and copy PVM file to Documents/Parallels
g. Double click on PVM to register and start your VM

2.
a. Start your old Mac and boot to Boot Camp with Windows
b. Start your new Mac and boot to Mac OS X side
c. Install Parallels Desktop 8 on the new Mac
d. Install Parallels Transporter agent on Windows (old Mac Boot Camp): http://download.parallels.com/desktop/v8/update1.hotfix3/ParallelsTransporterAgent-18354.823166.exe
e. Migrate Windows to your new Mac virtual machine as described here: http://kb.parallels.com/en/115007