I just purchased Paralells 6 for my new MacBook Pro (i7/4GB). I'll caveat this by saying that I'm new to Mac, but am an experienced IT Professional and have a good understanding of how things generally fit together (I think!). I have a copy of the Windows 7 files that I converted to an *.ISO image using disk utility and terminal. Those Win7 files came from a disk that a friend lent to me. I copied the contents of his disk to my local hard drive a short while ago. In an attempt to get Paralells to work, I've burned 2 DVD's. The first one has just the *.ISO image on it, and the second one has the contents of the ISO image (all of the Win7 install files and directory structures). I've done this out of frustration because I can't get Paralells to recognize the install disk. When I startup paralells, I get the prompt to create a new VM. I tell it where the ISO image is (on my Matsushitty Optical Drive) and follow the prompts. It then proceeds to open the VM and begin booting up. This is where I think that I'm having my problem..... When it goes through the boot sequence to find a bootable disk, it searches for a SATA drive, an optical drive and then the network. When it does this, it gets an error stating "failed" for all of those options and it does not seem to be finding the *.ISO image. I am running a brand new MacBook Pro with 4GB and an i7 Processor. All of my software on the MBP has been updatet do the latest release. Any help that you can provide is much appreciated! -Brian
A little more information to help clarify the error that I am getting. When I insert the DVD with the ISO image, tell parallels where the ISO image is, and start the VM, the application opens the boot screen and then displays this list of errors: Trying to boot from SATA drive 1... failed Trying to boot from SATA optical drive 2... SATA optical drive 2 failed. Trying to boot from Floppy drive... failed Trying to boot from networking... and then fails!
It looks like a bottleneck in your scenario. If you just copy the Installation files to the iso, it will not be bootable.
Same error - PLEASE HELP I tried using ISO files as well as the actual retail install disk on two different macs - SAME ERROR. CAN SOMEONE HELP PLEASE (sorry...needed to get the CAPS out of my system). I'm "Parallelised"
