Using Parallels to Boot Windows Vista on Installed Hard Drive

[Wesley008]

I have 2 Hard Drives; MAC OSX and Windows Vista. Now both of them work with the Chameleon Bootloader. and I go into each one if I restart. Now my question is will I beable to use my Existing Hard Drive (Windows Vista, with all installed files on it) in Parallels, meaning, I can launch up parallels and boot into vista with my hard drive files. Or VM ware for that matter.

[blkhockeypro19]

Both let you do that. Good luck! =)

[awulf]

I have the same inquiry, I have two hard drives, one with OS X 10.5.7 installed, and the other with Windows 7, both boot up fine with Chameleon 2, but I can't seem to get any VM program (VMware, Parallels or VirtualBox) to recognise the windows installation.

 

This is how disk utility sees my drives:

Garfield:~ awulf$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
  #:					   TYPE NAME					SIZE	   IDENTIFIER
  0:	  GUID_partition_scheme						*298.1 Gi   disk0
  1:						EFI						 200.0 Mi   disk0s1
  2:	   Microsoft Basic Data Windows HD			  297.9 Gi   disk0s2
/dev/disk1
  #:					   TYPE NAME					SIZE	   IDENTIFIER
  0:	  GUID_partition_scheme						*931.5 Gi   disk1
  1:						EFI						 200.0 Mi   disk1s1
  2:				  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD			100.0 Gi   disk1s2
  3:				  Apple_HFS Storage HD			  831.1 Gi   disk1s3
/dev/disk2
  #:					   TYPE NAME					SIZE	   IDENTIFIER
  0:	  GUID_partition_scheme						*1.4 Ti	 disk2
  1:						EFI						 200.0 Mi   disk2s1
  2:				  Apple_HFS RAID					1.4 Ti	 disk2s2
/dev/disk3
  #:					   TYPE NAME					SIZE	   IDENTIFIER
  0:	  GUID_partition_scheme						*1.4 Ti	 disk3
  1:						EFI						 200.0 Mi   disk3s1
  2:				  Apple_HFS Backup				  1.4 Ti	 disk3s2

 

Originally the windows drive was of a MBR partition map and I read reformatting it into a GUID would solve this problem, but it didn't. Does anyone have any ideas?

[awulf]

It's working now under VMware version 2.0.5 seems to have fixed the problem.