
20 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide
Boot Camp Option
With Parallels Desktop you can choose how to use your Boot Camp Windows XP/SP2 or
Windows Vista installation: to boot in it natively (via Boot Camp) or via Parallels Desktop. A
Boot Camp Windows partition can be used as a bootable disk or as a data disk in Parallels
virtual machines.
During the installation, Parallels Desktop checks if your Macintosh computer has a Boot Camp
partition with Windows XP or Windows Vista installed, and automatically creates a new virtual
machine for using this partition if there is no other virtual machines on the computer.
If the Windows partition is mounted to Mac OS X desktop, Parallels Desktop attempts to
recognize the operating system installed on the partition and creates appropriate virtual
machine for the recognized OS.
If the Windows partition is not mounted to Mac OS X desktop, or if Parallels Desktop
cannot recognize the operating system, it creates a Windows XP virtual machine. If you
actually have Windows Vista installed on the Boot Camp partition, you should change the
guest OS type for the virtual machine from Windows XP to Windows VIsta in
Configuration Editor (page 160).
Alternatively, you can create a new virtual machine with OS Installation Assistant for using the
Boot Camp Windows partition as a bootable volume, or add the Boot Camp partition as a data
disk to an existing virtual machine using Add Hardware Assistant (page 191).
Parallels Tools will be installed automatically when you boot into the Boot Camp Windows
partition for the first time. Parallels Tools will not interfere with the system when you boot into
it via Boot Camp.
Note. You cannot create snapshots or use Undo Disks feature for a virtual machine that uses the
Boot Camp partition.
CD/DVD Discs and Their Images
Parallels Desktop can access real CD/DVD discs and images of CD/DVD discs.
The current version of Parallels Desktop has no limitations on using multisession CD/DVD
discs. Virtual machine can play back audio CDs without any limitations on copy-protected
discs.
If your Macintosh computer has a writable CD/DVD-ROM drive, you can use it to burn CD or
DVD discs in a virtual machine.
Parallels Desktop uses CD/DVD disc images in ISO format (as files with .iso extension).
Parallels Desktop can read ISO images of discs created by many third-party applications. It can
also read DMG images of discs made with Mac OS X Disk Utility. When creating such images,
make sure you create the read-only and uncompressed images.
If errors occur when you install the guest OS from a CD/DVD disc, try to install it from an ISO
image of that disc.
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