Parallels Desktop

Hi everyone. I want to buy Parallels desktop, but I already have windows installed to its own partition with bootcamp. Is there any way that I can get Parallels Desktop to just read from the Windows Partition that I've already set up with bootcamp? I have a lot on my windows partition and I don't really want to have to install from scratch with Parallels desktop, and delete the partition for windows currently.

If someone could let me know if there's a way to do this I will proceed to purchase the software.

Thanks a ton!
Jared

 

Yes there is, download the trial before you buy, check the User Guide, there's a section about that.

 

thanks

Awesome, i'll do that right now, thank you very much.

 

Can't figure it out

I can't get it to work for some reason. It says "More than one Windows Partitions are found. This is not a standard Boot Camp configuration. Please refer to the Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide, Using Boot Camp Windows XP Installation chapter for instructions on how to configure Parallels virtual machine in case of a non-standard Boot Camp configuration on your Macintosh Computer."

I opened that guide, but I couldn't find anything about non-standard bootcamp configurations. If you could help me out that would be cool. Maybe I'm reading the wrong guide?

 

Open Terminal app, from Applications/Utilities and paste command bellow, hit Enter

for n in `diskutil list |grep -v /| grep disk | awk '{ print $NF }'`; do diskutil info $n; done; diskutil list

copy /paste output here

 

This means that you have more than one NTFS and/or FAT partitions in your system (including external drives that are connected when you start the Virtual Machine) and Parallels doesn't know which one to use, if you had only one it would be automatic, but when there's more than one it's not and there's no GUI option for it (it should have) but you can edit the .PVS file if you know which one is the one you want to use by following this kb article (this probably isn't in the user guide):

http://kb.parallels.com/en/5063

In my case, although most of the times there's only one NTFS partition in my system I edited the .PVS file so that if and when I connect an external drive with NTFS partitions on it Parallels always knows the one it should use. This also permits having a second (third,...) Boot Camp partition on an external Firewire disk.

If you don't know which one you should use, follow John's instructions.

 

ty

unplugging my external made it work. Thanks for all your help!