05-23-2007, 02:39 PM
Finally getting around to installing parallels on my 1.66Ghz Mac Mini, and was going to just do the parallels disk image creation thing, but then remembered that Parallels can now use the install from BootCamp as well.
This would seem to make sense, since it would allow for booting natively in WinXP (Bootcamp) OR running Parallels from within OS X as suits the situation.
The negative as I see it, is that the BootCamp install MUST be on the internal drive, which sadly is only 60GB. Whereas a simple Parallels image can be created on an externally attached drive.. right?
Anyone have any further thoughts to share on the Pros and Cons of one solution or the other? Thanks!
This would seem to make sense, since it would allow for booting natively in WinXP (Bootcamp) OR running Parallels from within OS X as suits the situation.
The negative as I see it, is that the BootCamp install MUST be on the internal drive, which sadly is only 60GB. Whereas a simple Parallels image can be created on an externally attached drive.. right?
Anyone have any further thoughts to share on the Pros and Cons of one solution or the other? Thanks!