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Parallels from Bootcamp Partition: Can Vista be activated for real and virtual HW simultaneously?
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Mar 15, 2026619 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I am running Vista and OS X natively on a new Mac Pro. Now I am trying to virtualize the natively installed Vista via Parallels 4. I am not planning to migrate Vista into a virtual machine completely, rather I want to use Vista natively when performance does matter and virtually otherwise. I.e. che…
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Fix for: Parallels from Bootcamp Partition: Can Vista be activated for real and virtual HW simultaneously?
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I didn't get your question, but I run VMWare Fusion and that takes my bootcamp partition and uses it as a Virtual OS, so I can use virtually on my OSX and I can boot directly from it use the full hardware... Fusion works fine and I only had to insta…
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