newbie question: boot camp migration/file system

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bgrant

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after a few fits and starts, I've managed to create a vm (XPSP2) migrated from my boot camp partition. I also have the automatically-created "My Boot Camp.pvs" vm.

I'm pretty ignorant of both Mac OS and of the parallels file system. What I would like to do is just eliminate Boot Camp altogether (once I'm confident that parallels is working well) and recover the disk space on the boot camp partition. I'm aware I'll lose the ability to run windows apps natively (at max speed).

So my question: When you create a vm by migrating from Boot Camp, does it reproduce everything (OS, files, apps, settings) on your MacOS partition or is it still making use of the Boot Camp partition? Can I kill boot camp, format its partition, and run the new vm off the mac partition?

I tried to glean this from both the parallels desktop and parallels transporter documentation, but some combination of it being opaque and my being clueless has left me confused. Any help appreciated. Thanks!
 
Parallels Desktop doesn't provide ability to migrate Boot Camp partition to Virtual Machine, while you on Mac OS side, but you can use Windows version of Parallels Transporter and migrate that Windows to Virtual machine
 
that's what I've done. I used the Transporter Agent in the "My Boot Camp" vm along with the Transporter in MacOSX to migrate to a new virtual machine. This was successful, and the new vm includes the settings, files, and apps I had in boot camp before.

the question: can I now get rid of boot camp? Are the files for the new vm all located on the mac osx partition?
 
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can you be a bit more informative? I'm trying to understand how parallels treats and locates files.
 
This is not Parallels, if you need to delete Boot Camp, use Disk Utilities
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.5/en/8493.html
If you copied migrated VM to external disk, and can run newly created VM from Mac OS , it is on Mac OS, if you used inplace migration, it is still on WIndows
If you created Virtual machine, you can see folder like Microsoft Windows XP (oe what ever name you gave) on disk where you copied your machine
Did you started migrated VM, or you booted in Boot Camp VM?
 
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