Hi, If I want to have two VMs, both with Windows, to separate data and processing do I need two windows licenses? thanks.
Hello PaulF4, yes, you would need to buy two separate licenses for both Windows virtual machines. Please refer to this article to know how to install Windows in Parallels Desktop.
Hi Paul, I guessed as much. I probably won't bother but it would be nice to have two machines accessing different disks just for some security for different clients data. I'll look for an alternative solution.
Every VM has separate virtual hard drive, but both of it will be located on your Mac Hard drive. You may for example copy one of it on the external drive, as a probable solution.
Hi there Paul. Just joined the forum and saw your post. If you do find a better solution please let me know. I have installed two separate Window 10 (W10) virtual machines (each under a separate Mac user account) to run two separate W10 user accounts, each with different data and settings, and I have only managed to activate one of W10 copies with my existing W7/W10 key. I don't know of a different way to implement two completely separated W10 users under Parallels 11. Good luck. Graeme
Hi GraemeC2, The options to implement two different Windows users are as follow: 1. Create a second Windows user account(local) in the same Virtual Machine. This will establish different folders for user created files such as the Documents, Downloads, Pictures folder etc. 2. You could also create a secondary Virtual Machine- a whole new Virtual Machine(.pvm) file with its own user account. This will completely isolate both the Windows and the applications have to be installed twice. Note : The easiest, economical and faster solution would be the first.
Hi Sasti Before I try this - in Option 1. what happens about displaying the two Windows desktops in Coherence mode? Does the Mac/Parallels desktop show an amalgam of the two Windows user's desktops or magically re-arrange itself to reflect whichever Windows user is active at the time? Option 2. does - as you say - keep everything completely separate and allows each Mac/Windows user to configure things the way they want. For example, Mac User A can work in Coherence with Windows User A at a particular screen resolution whilst Mac User B can work in Windows desktop mode with Windows User B at a different screen resolution (because of font display issues as documented) with (apparently) no cross-contamination. But there is a price to pay (performance, two Windows licences, two lots of applications etc.).
