hello, i am trying to help a friend get his Macbook + Parallels + Vista Boot Camp config working properly. - he bought Parallels 3, and one of the Vista versions - he thinks he would like Boot Camp (but since he doesn't do anything *too* special in windows, I think he may be fine w/ a normal VM instance) ...what is the optimal way/steps to install this setup? Neither of us have really done this before. Currently when i try to Import his Boot Camp partition, it gives an error message saying this BC partition is non-standard, and it stops us. im not sure how he had installed the BC. if we can't figure out the BC thing, then i think i'll just create a new normal VM (from the Vista cd) and see if that meets his needs. thanks for any help! matt
I avoided Bootcamp becasue it was in unsupported BETA 2 years ago so stick with a simple VM which version of mac OS? I use 10.4.11 with Parallels 5584 there may be a newer version to use with 10.5.* The parallels team are pretty quick with bug fixes - some caused by Apple updates - so it really pays to us the latest version of Parallels Desktop A VM is just another PC so you need to use all the standard ante virus / firewalls / Registery Cleaner/ defrag / good housekeeping with Windows running Regiustry Cleaner as I write and it has found 59 errors after one week's usage regards Hugh W
