I used Parallels transporter to import a VMware Windows XP virtual machine. The startup of the VM at login is very slow in Parallels - it takes almost 60 seconds. I've been trying to figure out what the problem is and how to fix it. I saw one post about using "msconfig" in Windows to diagnose the problem. While using "msconfig" I did see that there were a number of drivers still present from VMware, so I disabled them and tried rebooting. Unfortunately that didn't fix the problem of slow startup of Windows. I was wondering why Parallels didn't disable these drivers when the VM was transported. But I'm still trying to figure out why the startup times are so slow. Any ideas would be appreciated.
Did you remove VMWare tools from the virtual machine prior to importing it to Parallels? It is absolutely necessary and can not be done from Parallels side. You would need to remove them using VMWare toos and then import the virtual machine to Parallels.
I found out the hard way that it was necessary to remove vmware tools from a vm prior to using Transporter. I don't recall any warnings in the Parallels documentation or in the Transporter software about this. This requirement for correct operation of the vm should be highlighted. There should also be some info about this in the online support for Parallels. I searched extensively for help on this problem on the Parallels website and don't recall seeing anything about it.
