Will Parallels 3.0 change my virtual disk?

[jvolk]

I have a working Parallels Build 3094 and all is good. I have upgraded to Leopard 10.5.1 on one of my partitions and I would like to be able to run parallels from THAT partition. So, if I upgrade to 3.0 will it change my virtual disk (beyond installing a new version of parallels tools).

What I want to make sure of is that I can run parallels from my OLD Tiger partition using the SAME virtual disk... (the guest OS is Windows XP).

Thanks for any help (Yes I do have bootable backups, backups of my old virtual disk, etc.).

 

[Hugh Watkins]

yes of course
so clone your VM first and play with a clone

keeping your 2.* in a safe place - or two with a back up

Hugh W

 

[jvolk]

So by "yes of course" you mean that parallels WILL change my virtual hard disk making it unreadable from version 2?

Just want to make sure...

J

 

[Eru Ithildur]

That's right, migrating to V. 3 makes the .hdd file unreadable by V. 2 and earlier.