Transporter Support For Vista

I have a friend who is trying to migrate his Vista Home Premium PC over to Parallels on his new iMac. Does the transporter agent support Vista Home Premium (or Vista at all)? He also has the ability to upgrade to Vista Premium, but wanted to clarify the Vista support in Transporter before he went through the hassle.

Should he just run Transporter (the app, not the agent) on his Vista box and move the hdd image to his mac?

 

I recommend to use in place migration using Parallels Transporter for Windows from http://www.parallels.com/en/download/file/v3/en/GA/Parallels-Tsp-3.0.1456-Win.exe

 

So that would basically create the HDD image on his PC, and he can just copy it over and point to it in Parallels on his Mac, right?

Will this work with Vista Home Premium, or does he need to upgrade to a higher version first?

 

Yes,It works with all Vista versions

 

Does this method take longer than a normal over-the-network migration? Only at 15% after almost 12 hours of running.

 

15% after 12 hours for a 160GB install.

 

Something's wrong in that transfer... 15% after 12 hours (even for 160 GB worth of data) is insane.

I did some math for this, and for the worst case scenario which is 160 GB worth of data, not the same as having Windows installed on a 160 GB HD, which would be certainly lot less data, it represents about 0.5 MB/s that's roughly about 4 Mbps (in internet connection terms), it looks like you're transferring this OVER THE INTERNET, if that's true no wonder it takes that long, be sure you're transferring over the LAN and using LAN (local) Adresses/IPs and not WAN (internet) IPs.

 

Use Parallels Transporter for Windows and perform in place migration, to external disk, and copy VM to Mac OS
http://www.parallels.com/en/download/file/v3/en/GA/Parallels-Tsp-3.0.1456-Win.exe

 

He is running Transporter on Windows, but is transporting to an attached Firewire Drive. It was at 33% after almost 24 hours. Is there something going wrong with this transport?

Here is his setup: Vista Home Premium, running Transporter on Windows, 160GB (200GB total drive size), to external Firewire drive.

 

Is there errors in Windows Vista?
I mean disk errors, check in System logs errors related to ntfs

 

I will have him check for that. He can see the .hdd file getting bigger on the external drive. We had just chalked the slow speeds up to the fact he was using an external hard drive.