Share Boot Camp Installation across Multiple Users?

[jmdon]

I'm pretty new to Mac in general. I have Windows 7 64 installed on its own partition via Boot Camp. I purchased Parallels 7 today and installed it. I was able to use the boot camp partition without any problems.... Until I switched users on my mac.

I need to figure out how to use my Boot Camp Partition for my VIrtual Machine and have it accessible to all the "users" of my mac. I read a couple KB articles but they seem to be referring to older versions of Parallels and I'm not seeing exactly what they describe.

I'm only using multiple users on the mac because I have a software suite that I need to have access to multiple versions.

Any help would be great. I already completely uninstalled Parallels once because I though I had to install the program in a "Shared" location(WIndows on the brain I guess) so I'm not opposed to deleting the VM again and reinstalling it to get it right.

 

[jmdon]

OK, I think I got it, But dont know if I did it "Correctly"

I removed my Virtual Machine(But saved the files)

Copied that VM to Users>Shared>Parallels

Clicked on "Add Existing Virtual Machine"

Clicked the VM in the Shared folder.

Parallels reinstalled Parallel tools and windows started up fine.

Went to another user on the Mac, started parallels, add existing VM, and navigated to the same VM in the shared folder.

Windows seemed to start up just fine.

I then reactivated windows...


Seem reasonable or did I screw something else up?