I'm not sure if it's this straight forward to install Vista on Parallels but I thought I'd pass the information along: http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=5932 If it doesn't work 100% for a Parallels install, maybe it will inspire people more technically proficient than me to figure out how to do it
“USE WITH VIRTUALIZATION TECHNOLOGIES. You may not use the software installed on the licensed device within a virtual (or otherwise emulated) hardware system,†reads the EULA. That doesn’t preclude Vista Home editions from being installed on Macs running Boot Camp, however, since Boot Camp isn’t a virtualization or emulation technology — instead, it makes Windows run natively on the Mac. For now, however, Boot Camp is still in beta development, and still officially works only with Windows XP. Meanwhile, the EULA included with Vista Enterprise and Ultimate editions allows that operating system software to be installed on virtual or emulated hardware systems. “In short, this means that if you’re a user and you want to run Vista virtually, you MUST buy the highest end versions of Vista, or you’ll be in violation of the Microsoft EULA,†ajm
I'm not really sure what the point to your follow up post is. Some people had posted that they couldn't do a clean installation of Vista with an upgrade disk like previous MS OS releases had allowed. There are upgrade versions of the business editions of Vista you know...
EULA? I could care less. I will go ahead regardless of what the Micro$oft EULA says if I have to run Vista. But I won't. I shall just continue to use my Windows XP Corporate version. Vista is a resource hog anyway. But I agree with the previous poster that I do not see the point of this reply here.
