Convert Virtual PC 7 disk image for use by Parallels?

I just ordered my new Intel based mac, for a long time I've been using Virtual PC 7 (Win2K inside separately purchased and installed).

Ideally, I would like a way to convert my Virtual PC disk image over to whatever format Parallels uses so I have my apps already installed...

I couldn't find if this was possible from the manual or from my attempts to search this forum.

Thanks,
elo

 

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This has been discussed many times in these forums.

At this stage it is not possible.
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The firewire transfer that comes on the Mac is great but it brings all the crap you should have deleted or uninstalled. Still a great feature and especially useful in the work place where most people don't download every new file they can find on the web or try to run 3 operating systems.

Even if you could convert VPC image I don't think you really want too. You really want to start with a clean install of XP. I was able to use the registration number I got with the VPC XP image after calling 10 times. If you keep trying long enough Microsoft will connect you to a human in India that will give you a number. It should be easy to transfer you data from a working VPC computer.

 

Check my thread here - http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?p=10313#post10313

There's a shot in hell that a sysprep will allow the conversion.....

Even if it does work - it's going to take some "tinkering"

I've yet to try it, but here's my plan.

1) Run Sysprep on the Windows OS
2) Use Ghost to make a "drive image"
3) Create a new Parallels hard drive
4) Use Ghost to write the sysprep'd image to the Parallels hard drive.

Now, I know what you're saying - why the hell would I try this....
1) I've got a hell of alot installed on that Virtual PC as it's my "dev box"
2) I'm a complete GEEK.

I'll let you know if this works out - however, I'm pretty sure that the underlying hardware difference is going prevent it from happening....

We'll see...

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Actually I installed ghost into my VMware programming setup on a pc and then restored the ghosted image to a parallels disk on a Mac. No problem from it. Be sure to first uninstall the VMware tools before creating the ghosted image. Then install the parallels tools after restore.

 

wow! thats great news - i'm going to try it on a Microsoft VPC image.

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I tried using sysprep to convert an existing XP OS on MS VPC to Parallels - no luck.

Apparently the HAL is too different between the Parallels and the MS VPC.

This completely sucks. I may try again with a different XP OS ihnstallation - but still, I suspect I'll have to suck it up and just freaking re-install windows....

damn.

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