S.V. Posted May 27, 2010 Share Posted May 27, 2010 I have Snow Leopard 10.6.3 in one HDD and Windows 7 in another. I am using chameleon bootloader. I also installed Parallels 5 in my Snow Leopard HDD. The question is: does anyone know how to boot the Windows 7 HDD using Parallels 5? I tried to make it, but I get stuck with the screen: 1)"Please wait while the virtual machine is being configured..." 2)After that I get the following message:'You need to manually continue the process of configuring..." 3)We can see in the Parallels Windows the message "Missing Operating System" Does anyone know hot to proceed? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/219554-parallels-5-windows-7-running-natively/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
iskip2sk8 Posted June 1, 2010 Share Posted June 1, 2010 you have to configure your virtual machine harddisk to ide (locations in harddisk tab) I beleive, or you need to pick the partitions above the same list box for location but some other insight is your sata controller set to ide/raid/ahci? if ahci parallels only supports ide (im too looking for a solution) you can edit some registry keys in windows to enable drivers for either ide or ahci to get rid of the annoying configuring screen that takes forever you need to enter manual mode which is: (alt-option-control-r)(someone verify i uninstalled parallels for the time being) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/219554-parallels-5-windows-7-running-natively/#findComment-1479484 Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.V. Posted June 1, 2010 Author Share Posted June 1, 2010 you have to configure your virtual machine harddisk to ide (locations in harddisk tab) I beleive, or you need to pick the partitions above the same list box for location but some other insight is your sata controller set to ide/raid/ahci? if ahci parallels only supports ide (im too looking for a solution) you can edit some registry keys in windows to enable drivers for either ide or ahci to get rid of the annoying configuring screen that takes forever you need to enter manual mode which is: (alt-option-control-r)(someone verify i uninstalled parallels for the time being) I am using AHCI and tried to change it to IDE, but SL failed at the startup. I tried all the IDE combinations inside Parallels, but it didnt work either. I couldnt do this manual mode and Apparently this combination of keys didnt work for me. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/219554-parallels-5-windows-7-running-natively/#findComment-1480006 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerkex'd Posted June 5, 2010 Share Posted June 5, 2010 Can someone tell me how this works exactly? Parallels installs a bunch of things like network and display drivers and stuff onto the OS you're running in it. Where does all that stuff get installed to when you boot a physical Windows install in Parallels? Obviously, if Windows thought it was installed on the hardware that Parallels emulates, instead of my motherboard, I would not be able to boot my Windows installation normally anymore. How does Parallels handle this? Does it create a separate hardware profile? harddisk diff image? RAM disk? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/219554-parallels-5-windows-7-running-natively/#findComment-1482861 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted September 12, 2010 Share Posted September 12, 2010 *bump* for great justice I would really like to know this as well. Is anyone here "bootcamping" their Windows partition or HDD with Parallels in OS X? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/219554-parallels-5-windows-7-running-natively/#findComment-1546843 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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