Question on Installing XP in VM

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David Wise

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I am attempting to install XP via Parallels on my iMac. I already have Boot Camp installed. Once Windows setup begins, I get the following choice of partitions in which to set up Windows:

E: Partition1 [Unknown] 200MB <200MB free>
F: Partition2 [Unknown] 205824 MB <205824 MB free>
Unpartitioned space 128 MB
C: Partition3 {FAT32} 32323 MB <32323 MB free>

I assume that C: is Boot Camp's version of Windows, but of course I don't know for sure.

Any guesses as to which partition I should install XP in?

Thanks in advance.

-- DW
 
this one has me confused, you setup hard drives under guest VM (which is the physical .HDD file) and then you can put partitions in that hard drive.

unless you have tryied to hook into boot camps file (I dont use boot camp so just guessing here) from the Guest setup.

Normally you will just have the main partitions which is bootable and will be assigned C: (first .hdd)

I think you need to create a new VM and use Parallels wizard to setup the HDD file.
 
David Wise said:
I am attempting to install XP via Parallels on my iMac. I already have Boot Camp installed. Once Windows setup begins, I get the following choice of partitions in which to set up Windows:

E: Partition1 [Unknown] 200MB <200MB free>
F: Partition2 [Unknown] 205824 MB <205824 MB free>
Unpartitioned space 128 MB
C: Partition3 {FAT32} 32323 MB <32323 MB free>

I assume that C: is Boot Camp's version of Windows, but of course I don't know for sure.

Any guesses as to which partition I should install XP in?

Thanks in advance.

-- DW
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Hmm, it looks to me like you restarted your Mac with the XP install disk in the drive ... did you? To install in Parallels, you just start the Parallels process, set up the VM configuration, and start the Parallels VM. You will see just one drive to install on.
 
Paul Linden said:
Hmm, it looks to me like you restarted your Mac with the XP install disk in the drive ... did you?
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That's exactly what I did. I was following the directions of the Parallels Quick Start Guide. It says in Step 2 of "Installing a Guest OS":

" ...Simply inside the CD/DVD disk with the operating system distribution into the appropriate drive of your system."

Then at step 5:

"Now start the virtual machine by clicking the POWER ON button."

When I did that, I immediately got a restart screen, with NO abort option and NO option to eject the OS disc. So I had no choice but to power up with the disc in the drive.

-- DW
 
David Wise said:
That's exactly what I did. I was following the directions of the Parallels Quick Start Guide. It says in Step 2 of "Installing a Guest OS":

" ...Simply inside the CD/DVD disk with the operating system distribution into the appropriate drive of your system."

Then at step 5:

"Now start the virtual machine by clicking the POWER ON button."

When I did that, I immediately got a restart screen, with NO abort option and NO option to eject the OS disc. So I had no choice but to power up with the disc in the drive.

-- DW
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Dp you mean, you pressed the Mac's power switch? Or your Mac restarted when starting the VM? The first is ... well ... user error (it's clear to most people what is meant by the POWER ON button). The second is a bug somewhere, or a hardware problem.
 
Paul Linden said:
Dp you mean, you pressed the Mac's power switch? Or your Mac restarted when starting the VM? The first is ... well ... user error (it's clear to most people what is meant by the POWER ON button). The second is a bug somewhere, or a hardware problem.
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I pressed the virtual machine's virtual "on" switch. (The green arrow button.) Immediately a grayish curtain dropped down over the entire Mac screen, and a box in the center appeared, saying that in order to proceed I had to restart. There was no option to do anything else, and nothing on the Mac mouse or keyboard would respond. The only thing to do was restart by means of the literal power button.

-- DW
 
Is Power-on/off the right way?

I am new to Mac, and I have the same poblems as Dave. Is it more options to restart an iMac than the power-on/off button.

My iMac starts up with the user accounts picture, and when choosing my account nothing happens but a regular start-up.
 
David Wise said:
I pressed the virtual machine's virtual "on" switch. (The green arrow button.) Immediately a grayish curtain dropped down over the entire Mac screen, and a box in the center appeared, saying that in order to proceed I had to restart. There was no option to do anything else, and nothing on the Mac mouse or keyboard would respond. The only thing to do was restart by means of the literal power button.

-- DW
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That is a crash of OS-X (kernel panic).

How much physical memory do you have?
How much memory is allocated to Parallels?
How much memory is allocated to the VM?
How big is the virtual disk in the VM?
 
If you have a new iMac, you can't use the released version of Parallels as it's not compatible. At the top of this forum, you'll find a thread announcing RC2 of the next version of Parallels. It's compatible with the new iMacs. Download it and install it over the previous version. Then, try again.
 
palter said:
If you have a new iMac, you can't use the released version of Parallels as it's not compatible. At the top of this forum, you'll find a thread announcing RC2 of the next version of Parallels. It's compatible with the new iMacs. Download it and install it over the previous version. Then, try again.
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Oops. There's no sticky post at the top for RC2 any more. You can download it from here.
 
palter said:
Oops. There's no sticky post at the top for RC2 any more. You can download it from here.
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Oops? Oops!?

I left out the second half of the story, which is how this install attempt DESTROYED my Mac's hard drive, cost me all my data, and resulted in Apple having to give me a whole new unit.

Oops, indeed.
 
Are you saying that installing software damaged your hardware and Apple replaced damaged hardware? That would be interesting indeed. In fact, it would be the first time in over 30 years of hardware and software development I've seen that happen. Are you sure?
 
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