blkblt Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 See http://forum.parallels.com/post42129.html for more details: ...Creating Parallels Custom Boot Camp configuration may be helpful in case Parallels Desktop is not able to determine what partition must be considered as a default "Boot Camp" partition. It may happen, for example, if Parallels has found more than one matching partition. "Custom Boot Camp" configuration also allows the user to use several partitions in one virtual machine.... I'm thinking this might help Hackintosh owners boot off a native hard drive partition? /blkblt Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40888-parallels-beta-rc2-is-out/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Hurt Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 That very interesting. I wonder if this will help us poor hackintosh users. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40888-parallels-beta-rc2-is-out/#findComment-292169 Share on other sites More sharing options...
erbic Posted February 4, 2007 Share Posted February 4, 2007 Wonder if this works with Vista? I'd try it, but Home Premium can't run in virtualization software. I've got the Ultimate on my desktop downstairs, and got the cheapo Home Premium licenses for my other two computers. (MBP and another desktop) so I can't test this out. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40888-parallels-beta-rc2-is-out/#findComment-293302 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ai Haibara Posted February 4, 2007 Share Posted February 4, 2007 GUYS, GREAT NEWS! Parallels with Custom Boot Camp configuration CAN BOOT HACKINTOSH WINDOWS PARTITIONS! Tested it right now! You just need to create a new virtual machine using the "Use Boot Camp" option when it'll tell you to select the HD. Then shutdown Parallels and edit the file .pvs of your virtual machine with a text editor (for example, Text Edit or Nano). Now modify the string: "Disk 0:0 image = Boot Camp" with this "Disk 0:0 image = Boot Camp;diskxsy" where diskxsy is your disk: for example, for me is disk1s1. Save and quit. Then open Parallels.. IT WILL BOOT YOUR HACKINTOSH PARTITION GUYS! Sherry Haibara Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40888-parallels-beta-rc2-is-out/#findComment-293422 Share on other sites More sharing options...
alicheusz Posted February 4, 2007 Share Posted February 4, 2007 CAN BOOT HACKINTOSH WINDOWS PARTITIONS! WOW (like in Vista ad ) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40888-parallels-beta-rc2-is-out/#findComment-293446 Share on other sites More sharing options...
blkblt Posted February 4, 2007 Author Share Posted February 4, 2007 Brilliant news! I'll have to reboot to install Windows natively now. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40888-parallels-beta-rc2-is-out/#findComment-293610 Share on other sites More sharing options...
trexplorer Posted February 4, 2007 Share Posted February 4, 2007 GUYS, GREAT NEWS!Parallels with Custom Boot Camp configuration CAN BOOT HACKINTOSH WINDOWS PARTITIONS! Tested it right now! You just need to create a new virtual machine using the "Use Boot Camp" option when it'll tell you to select the HD. Then shutdown Parallels and edit the file .pvs of your virtual machine with a text editor (for example, Text Edit or Nano). Now modify the string: "Disk 0:0 image = Boot Camp" with this "Disk 0:0 image = Boot Camp;diskxsy" where diskxsy is your disk: for example, for me is disk1s1. Save and quit. Then open Parallels.. IT WILL BOOT YOUR HACKINTOSH PARTITION GUYS! Sherry Haibara Tried it a few days ago and again today. Reports "Unable to open disk imag Boot Camp;disk0s3" ... ? Suggestions ...? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40888-parallels-beta-rc2-is-out/#findComment-293651 Share on other sites More sharing options...
blkblt Posted February 4, 2007 Author Share Posted February 4, 2007 Any tips as to how to create the NTFS or FAT32 partition and install XP? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40888-parallels-beta-rc2-is-out/#findComment-293725 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ai Haibara Posted February 4, 2007 Share Posted February 4, 2007 Tried it a few days ago and again today. Reports "Unable to open disk imag Boot Camp;disk0s3" ... ? Suggestions ...? Did you mount the HD before starting the Virtual Machine? It seems to have random problems with not-mounted HDs. Also, seems that the boot partition needs to be active. And random BSoD errors will maybe occour booting Windows. Sherry Haibara Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40888-parallels-beta-rc2-is-out/#findComment-293738 Share on other sites More sharing options...
trexplorer Posted February 4, 2007 Share Posted February 4, 2007 Did you mount the HD before starting the Virtual Machine? It seems to have random problems with not-mounted HDs.Also, seems that the boot partition needs to be active. And random BSoD errors will maybe occour booting Windows. Sherry Haibara Thanks ... booting an Active partition did the trick. By the way is it ok to install paralell toolsa nd then boot native to Windows ... ? cheers ... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40888-parallels-beta-rc2-is-out/#findComment-293819 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheQuantumByte Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 Will booting Vista work on a machine with only 1GB of memory? And will you need to install parallels tools? Hopefully it won't corrupt the vista partition I have on my osx86 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40888-parallels-beta-rc2-is-out/#findComment-294085 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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