I have an imac 27" running lion and had installed windows 7 via bootcamp, everything is working fine but I am just tired of having to reboot everytime I want to jump back and forth between the OS's.
When I saw Parallels I thought THIS is the answer! I assumed I would need to re-install windows but I read I can just point parallels to the bootcamp installation of windows 7, is there a walk thru anywhere or video anywhere of how this all works?
I haven't got the software here yet but am a bit confused am I installing parallels on the mac side and then instead of reinstalling windows telling it to access windows via the partition where bootcamp sits? If i do this and it works, do I still have the option of rebooting into windows via bootcamp (I can't imagine needing to do this but wondered).
Am I going to have to reactivate windows once I start using parallels on the mac side of things (assuming that I don't have to reinstall it if i can point parallels to the bootcamp partition).
I saw lots of stuff on parallels on youtube but didn't find a video of someone installing it using an existing bootcamp version of windows.
The version of parallels I ordered says 7, I am using windows 7, and lion if that helps,
Excited about all this but kinda nervous as I am still very new to the mac side of things (with bootcamp I find myself in windows 90% of the time) so I am trying to change that by getting and using parallels just wanna make sure I do it right and not have grief in the install or have issues needing to reinstall or reactivate windows again and again.
Bill
When I saw Parallels I thought THIS is the answer! I assumed I would need to re-install windows but I read I can just point parallels to the bootcamp installation of windows 7, is there a walk thru anywhere or video anywhere of how this all works?
I haven't got the software here yet but am a bit confused am I installing parallels on the mac side and then instead of reinstalling windows telling it to access windows via the partition where bootcamp sits? If i do this and it works, do I still have the option of rebooting into windows via bootcamp (I can't imagine needing to do this but wondered).
Am I going to have to reactivate windows once I start using parallels on the mac side of things (assuming that I don't have to reinstall it if i can point parallels to the bootcamp partition).
I saw lots of stuff on parallels on youtube but didn't find a video of someone installing it using an existing bootcamp version of windows.
The version of parallels I ordered says 7, I am using windows 7, and lion if that helps,
Excited about all this but kinda nervous as I am still very new to the mac side of things (with bootcamp I find myself in windows 90% of the time) so I am trying to change that by getting and using parallels just wanna make sure I do it right and not have grief in the install or have issues needing to reinstall or reactivate windows again and again.
Bill