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Sounds like Parallels Tools are not (properly) installed in the VM.
Turning off power saving in Windows will not have an undesirable effect on the mac battery life, let the OS X side do all the power savings. As...
If your XP VM wasn't Bootcamp based, locate the .pvm file (by default in /Users/<username>/Documents/Parallels) and use the XP VM on the other...
Use Bridged Networking instead of Shared for this case. Relevant part of the User Guide:...
PDM6 is not compatible with 10.9, only the latest version of PDM8 and PDM9 run on 10.9.
In Unix ~/ means it's the user folder. So this is your Documents folder, and Parallels folder is by default inside it, in any version of OS X,...
Ah, yes, it's for Windows 8 and Server 2012 only.
You have to enable nested virtualization, see: http://kb.parallels.com/en/116239 (it's for PDM8 but it's similar in 9).
Annoying? It's rather quick. The problem isn't Parallels, is likely Camptune that didn't synch the partitions properly. And no, it doesn't affect...
It will be fine.
Reinstall Parallels Tools.
You are asking if a computer that is less powerful and has lower resources can run apps at the same speed as a more powerful one. Of course not....
This kb refers to PDM 6, this should give you an idea of the file locations: http://kb.parallels.com/en/9087 (I recommend looking inside these...
Uninstall and reinstall Parallels Tools inside the VM, XP should work well inside PDM9 (I can attest that it does in a setup similar to yours).
PDM 5 is not compatible with Mavericks. In your current setup PDM 5 is obsolete, you'd have to get PDM 9 (full price, no upgrade price for PDM 5)....
Create a new Bootcamp based VM.
Reinstall Parallels Tools?
There's no Parallels as base image, Parallels runs under OS X (Host). Currently there is no Parallels Bare-Metal for Macs. You'll have Mavericks...
Ok, I understand what you're trying to do there, the problem is, you won't be able to reproduce the same lower level environment of the physical...
Also, the advantage of having separate VMs is the possibility of running the 2 at the same time. Copying between the two would also be easier, I...