I have spent a lot of time trying to figure out: 1) How to actually get tools installed when it dumped a non-helpful config unsupported message. It turns out this was related to the Boot Camp disk being MBR rather than EFI. 2) How to get Parallels to recognize Windows boot camp disks. Once uninstalling/reinstalling Parallels caused it to miraculously ungrey the option. 3) How to launch a boot camp disk from parallels. I'm getting an error that traditionally is used by windows "Unable to load operating system" to report that the bios method of addressing the disk is incorrect. Haven't figured out how to get around this one yet. 4) How to get Parallels to recognize that Boot Camp is installed on a machine where the OS X disk is not the first disk in the system. Use Boot Camp is greyed out and loading a VM config that previously had a boot camp mounting results in an error "Hard disk 1 is trying to use a Boot Camp disk, but boot camp is not installed." Boot camp is installed and works fine, why doesn't parallels see it. After spending 20 hours this week backing up, installing, trying various configurations I have to ask: WHAT 2 DISK SETUP AND CONFIG WORKS? By two disk setup, I mean OS X is disk 1 on my system. Windows is disk 2 on a separate physical disk. Boot camp works fine, the 2nd disk is NTFS, and tools is installed. If no one knows, what setup has been verified and tested?
I'm not sure anyone has this working. You may want to consult this thread: http://forum.parallels.com/thread6843.html Most of the people there are getting that error with the two disk configuration you described. I agree that we really need to hear from Parallels on this one.
