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OK, so I made the move and have my shiny new MacBook Pro. Lovely kit.
Per earlier threads I have some commercial windows applications I need to run - plus it would be neat if I could also run some COD style games I own from my steam account.
So I set up boot-camp and it is great. However, I really do like the idea of getting use to the Mac OS so installed a trial of Parallels 6. I think I am going to get tripped up on product activations. I am new to virtual machines so I wonder if anyone can help. These are probably all 'idiot' questions, apologies:
- Did I choose the right option when I installed parallels? Was I meant to install a virtual machine from 'mybootcamp' or would one of the other options achieved the same thing without making a 'virtual machine' (transfer my whole windows PC perhaps)?
- Assuming I got that step right, it wants me to reactivate windows. I haven't yet activated the one I put on bootcamp - but am trying to understand how this will behave. Does this mean if I activate it on the parallels VM when I go for a regular bootcamp then that machine will be deactivated? That strikes me as no good - I suspect for games I would want to run them under native windows rather than the Parallels VM.
I guess what I am asking is how do I configure it so that I can have both bootcamp and parallels available, only eating up the one license key use for both windows 7 and my commercial software licenses?
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Per earlier threads I have some commercial windows applications I need to run - plus it would be neat if I could also run some COD style games I own from my steam account.
So I set up boot-camp and it is great. However, I really do like the idea of getting use to the Mac OS so installed a trial of Parallels 6. I think I am going to get tripped up on product activations. I am new to virtual machines so I wonder if anyone can help. These are probably all 'idiot' questions, apologies:
- Did I choose the right option when I installed parallels? Was I meant to install a virtual machine from 'mybootcamp' or would one of the other options achieved the same thing without making a 'virtual machine' (transfer my whole windows PC perhaps)?
- Assuming I got that step right, it wants me to reactivate windows. I haven't yet activated the one I put on bootcamp - but am trying to understand how this will behave. Does this mean if I activate it on the parallels VM when I go for a regular bootcamp then that machine will be deactivated? That strikes me as no good - I suspect for games I would want to run them under native windows rather than the Parallels VM.
I guess what I am asking is how do I configure it so that I can have both bootcamp and parallels available, only eating up the one license key use for both windows 7 and my commercial software licenses?
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