I have installed Windows 10 in Bootcamp and bought a license to activate this. I used Parallels Desktop 12 to test a VM from Bootcamp-Partition, which worked well. In the Meantime PD13 was released, so I updated on this and bought a license-key for this as well.
Unfortunately in PD13 the VM does not recognize that windows has already been activated in the Bootcamp-Partition, so I bought a second license-key for Windows to use in the VM.
When I start Windows directly, from the previously activated Bootcamp-Partition, it is again not activated. So I activate again with my first entered license-key. As soon as I want to use the VM, this one is, again, not activated. So I activate it again with my secondly bought license.
This way of use (using both Bootcamp and VM) is described in the Parallels Desktop Manual and worked fine when I was testing it with PD12. It clearly does not work with PD13, leaving me without a usable Windows (for both License-Keys the activation and re-activation tokens have been used now). My only option left is to buy another Windows-License, which is really, really frustrating !!!
I hope you will get this problem fixed in future updates and communicate this to other (potential) users as well.
Last edited by a moderator: Sep 21, 2017