Seeking upgrade advice from 10.4 & Boot Camp to Leopard

[scotto]

I'm planning to upgrade from system 10.4.11 to Leopard, and I'd also like to switch from Boot Camp 1.4 to a native Parallels VM. I'll stay on Win XP through this, as well as Parallels 3.0. Any suggestions/warnings/gotchas? Does Transporter really work on Boot Camp now? What order should I do this in? Will MS Office need to be reactivated? The collective wisdom and experience of this board should make this painless, right? Thanks.
--Scott

 

[Xenos]

Hello Scott,

Transporter will not work for Boot Camp, unfortunately. You will have to make a clean Windows installation on a new VM.

Best regards,
Xenos

 

[scotto]

Release notes say Transporter works with Boot Camp

Xenos-
The following is copied directly from the Build 5582 release notes. Is it incorrect?
--Scott

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What's New in Parallels Desktop 3.0 for Mac (Build 5582)
<snip>
• Parallels Transporter - Migrate Windows from your Boot Camp partition to a Parallels
virtual disk image
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[Xenos]

Hello Scott,

I apologize for I had old information on this feature. You can use Parallels Transporter to migrate Windows from Boot Camp partition to Parallels virtual disk. Here is what you should do for this:

1. Set your Boot Camp VM Network Adapter in Configuration Editor to Host-only networking;
2. Launch the Guest OS in the VM;
3. Install Transporter Agent in the VM;
4. Transport Windows from Boot Camp partition on Mac side;
5. Use the new VM.

If you will not manage to do this with Host-only networking, try Bridged Ethernet.

Best regards,
Xenos