Please Help

hi

maybe this kind of question is very basic, but i didn't find any information, neither here in the forum, nor in the parallels help. and i don't like to experiment on this..

since the parallels vm (running windows xp pro sp3) is eating up the space of my internal drive (macbook pro, 100gb hd), i want to move it to an external hard drive.

how can i do this?
just copy the .pvm file by dragging it to the external drive and change the location of hd1 in the configuration editor?
will i lose any software authorizations depending on system-/hd-info inside windows xp?

seems a bit to easy to me..

thanks for any help.

tom

 

No, it's the right way. Copy .pvm file to the external hard drive, make sure that it's mounted not in read-only mode, launch Parallels Desktop, click File -> Open and specify the new path. No data/settings/authorizations would be affected during this procedure.

 

thank you very much!

tom