moviung hdd between VMs

Hi
I have two Parallels VMs (both windows 7) and I want to move the D: drive hdd from one VM to the other.
How can I do that? The hdd is huge, and doing a file copy would be terribly slow. Ideally I could copy the .hdd file from one VM to the other but not sure how to do that..
thanks

 

I have a similar more complex issue, I'm wondering how to share HDD between VMs, I have multiple instances of Windows on a work PC that I am wanting to convert for use on my Mac via a TB RAID array, The problem is that they share common files and equate to over 1TB. They need to continue to be able to share these common files as if they were still in a Win machine and I was choosing which instance to load. I read on another thread here:

"You could also try keeping the VM file (.pvm) on your local machine but move the much larger virtual hard disk files elsewhere. Usually the virtual hard disk files (.hdd) are stored inside the .pvm but you can manually move them out and update the hard disk configuration to point to the new locations.

The .pvm file also contains log files, configuration files, snapshot files and virtual memory files."

I plan to attempt to fool Parallels into doing this by pulling the .hdd files out and pointing the other .pvm machines to them. I'll try to get back to you and let you know if it works, it might help in your situation.

Thanks,
Fyre

 

In the VM configuration, with the VM shut down, go to the Hardware tab and click the + sign at the bottom of the list of hardware. Then choose to add an existing HDD from an existing VM. You probably can't have both VMs running at the same time, though, if you do this.

Steve