Hi there, I have just made the switch from Windows to Mac. I managed to set up Parallels on my Mac Mini (1.66GHz Core Solo,512GB RAM, 120GB HDD) to boot windows from a physical 20Gb partition from an external disk (by modifying the .pvs file). Everything works, i.e i can boot into windows from parallels and natively, but i have the following problems: -If i install the mouse driver from parallels tools (included with 3188), when i boot natively the mouse does not work, as it loads this driver instead of the generic PS/2 /USB driver. -On every boot, it seems to want to install parallels tools (I get the "Parallels tools is initialising...." image overlay at every bootup. This just results in more entries in my Windows bootloader on my external disk. -I can no longer auto-shutdown, which it used to do. (for example, i get the "It is now safe to turn off your computer" message, Native and Virtualised, which is something which never used to happen. - I also have problems mapping my combo drive to a virtual machine, but i think i can do this in the setup. I was wanting to know if it would be possible to create my own Hardware Profile for Parallels under Windows? i managed to set one up before, and when i booted natively my mouse would work. However parallels seems to be insistant that you use its own. I have tried deleting its configuration and making my own, but it just keeps re-creating them. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Jordn
-On every boot, it seems to want to install parallels tools (I get the "Parallels tools is initialising...." image overlay at every bootup. This just results in more entries in my Windows bootloader on my external disk. INITIALIZING IS NOT the same as INSTALLING! This message is normal. ajm
