WinVista Boot Camp support?

Discussion in 'Parallels Desktop for Mac' started by joelwnelson, Feb 27, 2007.

  1. joelwnelson

    joelwnelson Junior Member

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    I have Windows Vista running under Boot Camp, but I noticed that the latest release version of Parallels does not allow booting Windows Vista from a Boot Camp partition. If I have the proper license, will Parallels Desktop eventually support booting a Vista partition in the virtualized environment?
     
  2. darkone

    darkone Forum Maven

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    probably when apple does...
     
  3. jbh001

    jbh001 Member

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    Booting into Vista via Boot Camp partition works as well on a Mac as any other PC even though Apple only officially "supports" XP SP2. The question is: does Parallels Build 3186 finally allow access to a Vista Boot Camp partition? Apple support is irrelevant because it is already there (unofficially).

    I haven't been able to test it yet because I haven't been able to get a complete download of Build 3186 off any server yet because they are all swamped.
     
  4. darkone

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    with the complexities of what could go wrong .. for instance, bootcamp might work with vista, but its not fully funtional.. i know for certain the device drivers have issues in vista, I would suspect that Parallels will be hit or miss. if it works, great, if it doesnt its not a suprise.
     
  5. joelwnelson

    joelwnelson Junior Member

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    The option is grayed out in the Parallels Setup Wizard.
     
  6. NoBackUp

    NoBackUp Bit poster

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    Chaps,

    I have this running quite easy actually... I just firsted used the bootcamp partion under XP... also booting from the boot camp patrition directly. Then ran the update under Par, no no issue ... direct or under Par.. :)
     
  7. Chris Price

    Chris Price Junior Member

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    Are you saying you installed XP onto Boot Camp, configured it in Paralells, and then upgraded the Boot Camp partition to Vista?

    I suspect that wouldn't work... Parallels has to revert XP to older kernels to make it work.
     
    Last edited: Feb 27, 2007
  8. jbh001

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    I found a way around this. I opened Boot Camp Assistant, left it open, and then started Parallels. For some reason that sequence fixed the Boot Camp option being greyed out. Alas, when I try to start the VM I get the error message "Unable to open disk image Boot Camp" even in Build 3186. Maybe the next build will fix this.
     

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