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solofx7 · Feb 19, 2007, 01:57 AM

this is very odd, but i had Xp installed and parallels would run and see XP fine
i have since installed Vista, with boot camp, but paralells will not see the Vista install on boot camp.
any thoughts or help would be greatly appreciated.

Big Mac · Feb 19, 2007, 02:00 AM

It's probably not compatible with Vista yet.

solofx7 · Feb 19, 2007, 02:03 AM

Originally Posted by Big Mac

It's probably not compatible with Vista yet.

that is what i thought, but i remember reading somewhere that it is. i think on paralells site.

mac128k-1984 · Feb 19, 2007, 06:52 AM

From what I've read on their site, they're still not quite there. There was some blurbs about vista in the RC3 thread. I really didn't pay too much attention because I'm running vista on BC and xp on parallels.

solofx7 · Feb 19, 2007, 09:22 AM

please help

ghporter · Feb 19, 2007, 09:45 AM

Originally Posted by solofx7

please help

Check with Parallels to see if they actually support what you're trying to do.

Frankly, my MBP is the only computer I have that's "Vista ready" and I'm not in a big rush to go that route, so I haven't looked into it, either for Boot Camp or Parallels.

JLL · Feb 19, 2007, 01:35 PM

Originally Posted by solofx7

that is what i thought, but i remember reading somewhere that it is. i think on paralells site.

Parallels supports Vista but not Vista through Boot Camp yet.

solofx7 · Mar 2, 2007, 03:49 PM

Originally Posted by JLL

Parallels supports Vista but not Vista through Boot Camp yet.

it should support it in the new 3186 version, but it does not appear to do so... arrgghh,,

alex_kac · Mar 2, 2007, 08:46 PM

No, 3186 supports Vista in the VM, but not in a BootCamp partition. They are quite clear about that.

solofx7 · Mar 8, 2007, 08:31 AM

Originally Posted by alex_kac

No, 3186 supports Vista in the VM, but not in a BootCamp partition. They are quite clear about that.

someday i guess, but for now i am going back to XP.
because i have to not cause i want to...

chicagodan · Mar 8, 2007, 08:34 PM

Parallels isn't "clear" about a lot of things ... they say Vista via Boot Camp is "experimentally" supported, but unless it was just added in today's build (3188), that's not the case.

What I've done is kept my Win XP image in Parallels while using Vista in boot camp. My theory is that anything that either requires Vista or is better in Vista is best run via Boot Camp anyway (i.e., games.) Until they add some kind of DirectX support in Parallels, I'll keep the Boot Camp partion ... there's no great need to share data between the two disk images.

alex_kac · Mar 9, 2007, 11:25 AM

I read the Parallels forums daily and while I probably missed anything they talked about in regards to experimental Vista Bootcamp support, I've seen no such post myself. I did email Parallels last week about it and was told that it would be coming soon, but not there yet.

chicagodan · Mar 9, 2007, 02:46 PM

The reason I say that Parallels isn't quite clear about this is that on this page:

Transporter

They talk about experimental support for Vista in transporter. I'm not saying this to criticize you, but rather to question Parallels clarity on this and a lot of other matters. I think they do a much better job of marketing communications than product support communications ... none of their manuals really told me how to migrate a VirtualPC disk image into Parallels, I kinda figured it out for myself. Good thing that the software is intuitive enough to make that possible.

danbrew · Mar 9, 2007, 04:53 PM

The net net is that Paralells uses a virtual hard drive to create the Windows partition - basically a giant file running on a Mac volume. Bootcamp actually let's you create a NTFS (or FAT32+) partition that it boots into. So... Bootcamp does it like Windows does it. Paralells is looking for a vhd and can't see the physical drives/partitions in NTFS/FAT32+ format...

Just my take. Free internet advice and all that...

earthlings · Mar 9, 2007, 08:15 PM

I have a pb, wanting to upgrade to an imac

Question:

So if I want to run Windows software on an imac (thinking of getting one with Leopard), I would have to buy Vista and download bootcamp?

alex_kac · Mar 9, 2007, 08:18 PM

Well if you want to run Windows - you have to buy Windows. No two bones about that. Once you have Windows you can run it in either Bootcamp or Parallels - or both (as long as its XP SP2).

earthlings · Mar 9, 2007, 08:20 PM

I wish iMacs would just have OS and Windows on there when I buy it. Thats what I thought was going on with intel. I've been out of the loop I guess.

danbrew · Mar 10, 2007, 08:10 AM

Originally Posted by earthlings

I wish iMacs would just have OS and Windows on there when I buy it. Thats what I thought was going on with intel. I've been out of the loop I guess.

If only Apple would sign an OEM agreement with Microsoft to distribute a copy of Windows with each new Intel Mac sold, you *would* have both installed on the machine when you buy it. Apple can be soooooo unreasonable.