Tried installing the demo of this today only for it to declair that windows vista (installed via boot camp) had encountered a hardware change and needed to be re-authorized.
Ignoring how irritating that aspect of vista is (it's one of the primary reasons I switched) it seems to be a parallels only thing - as windows works fine via bootcamp.
Anyone encountered this?
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This did not happen to me using VMware Fusion.
I have heard of that happening.
Something to know about the Vista EULA (in case you need to phone M$), you are not supposed to run Home Basic or Home Premium under virtualization. It works, I run Home Premium under VMware Fusion myself, but, technically, you are not supposed to.
Try the Parallels forums, this is a somewhat common issue. -
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Hmmmm - suspected that might be the answer.
VMfusion... I had a brief look at it but the demo seemed to want to form another partition seperately from bootcamp? which kind of put me off looking any further.
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Nope, can use Boot Camp partition.
I installed OSX. Installed Boot Camp, then Vista. Got everything installed and updated. Installed Fusion, it saw Boot Camp and I just use that as my VM.
When I'm in Fusion, I use the Fusion video driver, when I use Boot Camp, I use the Boot Camp drivers.
Best of all worlds really. OSX or Windows or OSX and Windows.
Parallels with vista problems
Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by ASyme, Nov 26, 2007.