I have a Macbook Pro with latest Mac OSX. I recently bought Parallels 5.0 for Mac and installed XP. I have an upgrade CD for Vista Premium and an upgrade CD for Windows 7. Ideally, I would like to go from XP to Windows 7. 1) Is it possible to go directly from XP to Windows 7? 2) If not possible, then will I cause a fuss if I go from XP to Vista Premium to Windows 7? My greatest concern is losing parallels functionality and not being able to use shared folders and other network configs. Suggestions?
I had an issue with my install of an upgrade from Windows XP 32-bit to Windows 7 64-bit and thought I would share it here in case someone needs the help. - I upgraded by downloading the 64-bit iso file of Windows 7 Professional Upgrade - Used Windows USB/DVD Tool to create a Windows 7 DVD boot disk - Opened the VM config menu and changed the boot order to have the DVD drive first, unchecked the HD box - started up the VM and performed the Windows 7 install - re-started the VM and reinstalled Parallels Tools and Internet Security Running like a champ!
a few more details This thread is absolutely correct. I followed and also had a successful experience. But here are a few more details I struggled with, because Microsoft's instructions vary a bit. 1. I used gburner to burn a bootable DVD from the ISO file. 2. Like the others, I changed the boot order in Parallels to look first at the DVD drive rather than hard drive 3. I created a new VM (rather than doing a clean/wipe from within the old VM, as I thought Microsoft's instructions said) 4. Everything else as already stated. Install went smoothly after that. I used Microsoft's Easy Transfer utility to move old setting and files, which made Outlook and other programs come up easily after reinstalling, post Windows 7 install.