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Parallels Workstation - Run other OSes alongside OS X
Authored by: markuswarren on Apr 18, '06 09:36:50AM

I've tried to do this but failed. I extracted the disk image from the Boot Camp application package and mounted it in the Guest PC. The exe would run but would tell me the hardware was not compatible.

If someone has extracted the drivers then I'd give it a go. However, I'm not sure if that would help, as Parallels does provide it's own drivers, plus, like other VM solutions, it's quite possible that the virtualization relies on their drivers. As said, I'm willing to test it if I or someone would tell me how to get the files out of the exe without it running.



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Parallels Workstation - Run other OSes alongside OS X
Authored by: geoffspear on Apr 19, '06 07:20:25AM

I imagine this is for the same reason that USB peripherals don't work; the OS running in the VM isn't given direct access to the hardware and thus the drivers can't see the hardware the and the installer fails.

I'd think that even if you could trick the installer into putting the drivers on your virtual Windows installation, they'd be useless.

Hopefully the rumored virtualization within Leopard will turn out to be true; I'd imagine that an Apple-built VM could work as well as Boot Camp (in terms of driver support, not speed; a virtual machine running on top of another OS is obviously going to be slower than just running Windows on the bare hardware) because Apple already has the drivers written and could use them in their VM.



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