I'm planning to upgrade from system 10.4.11 to Leopard, and I'd also like to switch from Boot Camp 1.4 to a native Parallels VM. I'll stay on Win XP through this, as well as Parallels 3.0. Any suggestions/warnings/gotchas? Does Transporter really work on Boot Camp now? What order should I do this in? Will MS Office need to be reactivated? The collective wisdom and experience of this board should make this painless, right? Thanks. --Scott
Hello Scott, Transporter will not work for Boot Camp, unfortunately. You will have to make a clean Windows installation on a new VM. Best regards, Xenos
Release notes say Transporter works with Boot Camp Xenos- The following is copied directly from the Build 5582 release notes. Is it incorrect? --Scott *********************** What's New in Parallels Desktop 3.0 for Mac (Build 5582) <snip> • Parallels Transporter - Migrate Windows from your Boot Camp partition to a Parallels virtual disk image **********************
Hello Scott, I apologize for I had old information on this feature. You can use Parallels Transporter to migrate Windows from Boot Camp partition to Parallels virtual disk. Here is what you should do for this: 1. Set your Boot Camp VM Network Adapter in Configuration Editor to Host-only networking; 2. Launch the Guest OS in the VM; 3. Install Transporter Agent in the VM; 4. Transport Windows from Boot Camp partition on Mac side; 5. Use the new VM. If you will not manage to do this with Host-only networking, try Bridged Ethernet. Best regards, Xenos
