Hi,
I need some advice with this.
I am planning to buy a MacBookPro and I need to run Windows 7 64 bit on it. For now I want to run it as a VM and not through bootcamp. I currently have a laptop with win 7 64 bit and ultimately I want to run this in OSX side by side.
To run this I have two options, Desktop Parallels and WM Fusion. I didn't decide which one I should use yet.
Now, can I do the following:
1. Create an image from my win 7 laptop physical drive.
2. Import/transfer the image to OSX and run it using Desktop Parallels or VM Fusion.
I wouldn't mind hearing your experiences with both vm tools, if you went through this process end to end. I am worried that I will start on a path just to discover later that there is some little thing that doesn't work quite as expected. I want to get it right.
Thanks!
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No, you have to buy another license of Windows 7 to put on your Mac. Just imaging it from you other laptop would be illegal. Check this thread out: http://forum.notebookreview.com/app...oot-camp-parallels-desktop-vmware-fusion.html
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Let's put the legality issues aside for a moment as long it is not impeding the VM software to work otherwise it becomes an issue. I have the MSDN subscription which allows me to use Windows 7 for development. I just don't want to spend time installing again all the software that I am using. I also remember that in Win7 there is a change product key option. I have more than one key and my win7 laptop is going to be retired.
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You will likely have less problems to just do a fresh install of Windows in the VM.
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the Joker: Thanks for the link.
I found that there is the option to install win 7 64 bit in bootcamp and then I can run that from OSX using Desktop parallels or VM Fusion as VM and, if I want, I have the option to run windows in bootcamp. It probably means I will have to install win 7 from scratch in bootcamp unless there is a way to somehow get an existing image into the bootcamp windows partition. I need to do more research. -
It's highly advisable to just do a complete fresh install of Win7 using Boot Camp Assistant. You'll encounter less problems that way.
installing win 7 64 bit as a virtual machine
Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by bikerc, Sep 12, 2010.