Greetings, I'm pretty much a newbie so I ask for your patience. I have two basic questions about the whole process. Background I have installed the Parallel Workstation for Windows XP workstation. I have the Sun Solaris 10 x86 install DVDs. I have not installed Solaris 10. Questions - 1. If I install Solaris10 as part of the Parallel Workstation set-up will I wipe out my XP host OS? 2. Will the Solaris 10 install process ( as part of the Parallel Workstation set-up) create a file system that could overlay or wipe out previously existing data on my hard drive? Thanks in advance for your help and patience. Sincerely, Jerry
. The short answers are: 1. No. 2. No. Parallels installs the guest OS (solaris) "inside" the host OS (xp). You need to have enough free disk space to do this. When the guest OS is fully installed, it appears as an ordinary file in the host OS. It sits in there within the existing file system. This has the added benifit of a backup of the guest being as easy as copying the file to a safe location. I would suggest that you do a "hard nose" analysis of the disk space you are likely to require for the geust and make the virtual hard disk (in reality this is a plain file as described above) a static disk and not an expanding one. .
