Parallels running on dual boot without virtualized systems

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Andy G.

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Well good morning everyone

Sorry if the title is not very precise but I did not find a better a way to describe my question. I already read some reviews about Parallels searched in the forum. Nothing could answer my question until now. Perhaps you can help me.

For better understanding, an example:
Laptop with a 200 GB hard disk. On this harddisk we have:
- a 100 mb partition with the boot loader
- a 4 gb swap file
- a 10 gb ext3 partition for fedora 64 bit with the common file system
- a 2 gb ext3 partition on mountpoint /var/log
- a 67 gb ext3 partition on mountpoint /home
- a 110 gb ntfs partition running windows 7 ultimate 32 bit

Does Parallels offer a product that gives the possibility to "boot" windows virtually from fedora and/or the other way around? I should precise that I don't want to lose the possibility to chose on boot-up to run either windows or linux, neither do i want to make a virtualized copy of any of those 2 systems.
Somehow like a system that boots a virtual machine from a normal partition... do they offer something like that?

I really appreciate any comments, tips, hints...
 
I would like to be able to do the same thing. Boot either OS natively and run the other one inside Parallels. This would be similar to Parallels on Mac virtualizing my Bootcamp partition.

Thanks!
Ron
 
It looks like this is supported in Workstation 6.
I can select real disk partitions as hard drive.
However, I haven't managed to get this working yet.
 
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