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• 03.15.07
  Converting a BootCamp Windows installation into a Parallels Virtual Disk Image Apple, Applications | (0)

  In my previous post I wrote about using Parallels together with a BootCamp partition. Now I decided to save on the 32 GB partition and use its space for my Mac OS related stuff by converting the BootCamp partition into a Virtual Disk one. Actually the steps doing so are very trivial thanks to Parallels Transporter. Here are the steps: Boot into the BootCamp Windows partition. Download the Transporter package. Install the Transporter package (the installer tells you that the Transporter agent is already installed, but with me I could not connect to the Windows partition until I installed the complete Transporter package!). Reboot ...

  Tagged: BootCamp, MacOS X, Virtualization
  
• 12.23.06
  Simply amazing: Parallels Beta 2, Bootcamp, Windows XP, ColdFusion and Oracle Apple, Applications, CFML, Oracle | (0)

  The other day I mentioned that I am (finally) back on the Mac. Well, today I had some time to finish up installing my MacBook Pro an one of these installations was installing Bootcamp, Parallels and of course Windows XP. First off, I am truly amazed at the speed of Parallels and the new coherence feature it has. Actually I went so far that I run Photoshop CS3 (MacOSX), Parallels (MacOSX), Updating Windows over Wireless Lan (Windows), downloading a file in FireFox (Windows) and running ColdFusion and Oracle as a service (Windows) and at the same time writing this message in ...

  Tagged: BootCamp, CFML, Oracle, Virtualization
  

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