View Full Version : Vista via Boot Camp or Parallels
specter
12th April 2007, 01:08 PM
I heard that people run Vista via Parallels (http://www.parallels.com)and they say that it runs rather smoothly. Graphics of course are far from being Perfect, while Parallels doesn't have 3d support - so, there's no Aero feature support.
Does Boot Camp support Vista?
I would appreciate any info on how people run Vista on Macs. While I'm not going to migrate from XP(I run it in Parallels and sometimes dual-boot) I would like to find out more info about running Vista as a VM. Thanks
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zarmanto
13th April 2007, 02:43 PM
Yes: BootCamp 1.2 (http://forum.onmac.net/showthread.php?t=2624) does indeed include drivers for the 32bit version of Vista. If you're not interested in ditching XP altogether, you might consider reading up on triple-booting (http://forum.onmac.net/showthread.php?t=2620) -- assuming that you haven't already, of course. We don't yet have an exact procedure nailed down for MacOS/XP/Vista triple-booting, but you still might find the discussion interesting.
specter
26th April 2007, 12:09 PM
And is it possible to triple boot Vista, XP and Mac OS using Parallels (http://www.parallels.com)? I mean - to create a partition for Vista(in Parallels), a partition for XP and run Mac OS natively at the same time.
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zarmanto
26th April 2007, 09:37 PM
From what I've read, Parallels will probably allow you to create as many OS instances as you want -- assuming you have enough disk space -- in the form of virtual partitions (which are really big files on your MacOS partition that act as harddrives for the guest OSes) but I don't know if that ability extends to multiple actual partitions, in the way that it extends to a single BootCamp partition. For that level of detail, you're probably going to have to ask the good folks over at Parallels (http://www.parallels.com/en/location/).
specter
27th April 2007, 03:52 PM
Thanks for the help:)
I think I will consult Parallels Support Forum (http://forum.parallels.com/), people on the net have been saying that people there are helpful enough
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