If you have already installed Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 8, or Windows 7 on your Mac using Boot Camp, you can set Parallels Desktop to run Windows from the Boot Camp Partition or import Windows and your data from Boot Camp into Parallels Desktop as a new virtual machine.
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Parallels 4 breaks Windows 7 running under Boot Camp I'm intrigued to know how to got it working Jason! Here's what I did and maybe you can help me: 1) Installed Windows 7 in a Boot Camp Partition using the Boot Camp installer. It works just fine. 2) Using Parallels 4 - Selected File/New Virtual Machine.
3) Selected the Boot Camp Partition 4) Selected a new folder for Parallels to store its stuff relating to the new 'VM'. 5) Parallels then told me it had detected the VM, and was installing Parallels Tools. 6) I then got an alert telling me that I needed to complete the Parallels Tools installation manually.
'Please insert your CD' to continue. 7) I don't have a Parallels CD (though it wasn't exactly clear what CD I was being asked to insert.) 8) Clicked continue and the VM gave me an error message telling me that it was now corrupted and would attempt to self repair. Self repair failed.
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Can't now log in to the Windows 7 VM either through Parallels or through a re-boot. It seems that Parallels 4 is stuffing up my Windows 7 VM quite reliably as I've been through this whole process end to end twice now - with the same result.