Same VM on desktop and laptop

I have a Vista Business VM on my iMac that I'd like to replicate on my laptop. I have a 2nd copy of Parallels 4 running on the laptop, but when I tried to use the same disk image I used to set up the iMac VM, I got an error message ("Invalid disk format").

Is there a way to use the VM already on the iMac to replicate the same VM on my MacBook? Is that what the Clone feature is for?

Thanks for any insight you can throw my way.

Best - Joe

 

Hello Joe,

Joe, please copy the .hdd file ( Finder -> Home Folder -> Documents -> Parallels -> Winvista.pvm -> winvista.hdd) from your IMac on an external harddrive or a usb drive and copy it on the laptop. Now, run Parallels Desktop on your laptop and create a new virtual machine using the .hdd file.

Please let me know the status of the issue.


Thank You.
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Anupama
Parallels Team

 

keep on drive

Not sure if your goal is a one time copy or a recurrent process.

What about keeping one copy of the VM on the portable drive and running it from either machine off that drive? Then you wouldn't have to copy back and forth or synchronize the hdd.

Anyone tried that?