You know how you can suspend and resume the virtual machine. Is it possible to somehow do this, saving the state of virtual machine, but quitting Parallels in between? So you could save the state (say XP launched and Quicken running), quit Parallels, and then later restart Parallels and resume this instance, so that you skip the whole windows boot, etc? Thanks
Well, suspend/resume option is designed specifically for such conditions... Have you ever tried to suspend you virtual machine, quit Parallels Desktop or even restart your Mac and then resume it? Actually, it works by default.
Wonderful! Thanks for the tip! Any risk of corrupting files that are being accessed by Windows apps? Do you think I need to be careful about shutting down Quicken first?
No, when you are suspending a virtual machine its memory state and configuration state is written to a file (.mem and .sav correspondingly, you can locate them in .pvm package of a virtual machine). Using this feature is safe.
