My wife is taking a class at a university, and though they say they are Mac compatible, a preparatory sample testing application is Windows only (and this wasn't disclosed before signing up for the test) which is why we had to know if it was sane to buy her a new MacBook now. We got Parallels for her, and I needed Windows XP installed, so I figured this would be the perfect time to see if Parallels Transporter could do all the cool things it says it can. Transporter is supposed to be able to migrate a PC, real or virtual from either VMWare of MS Virtual PC, into a Parallels VM, even over the network. I had a Virtual PC for Mac image which was terminal since MS had famously killed the product, or at least won't go forward with a version for Intel Macs. I had created this image on my iMac G5 for the occasional Windows only application when I bought that machine 2 years ago, but the image was in cold storage on DVD since with the MacBook Pro I hadn't needed it. So what was it like?
What a coincidence that Tom Yager at InfoWorld wrote How to scoop the brains out of a Windows PC and dump them in your Mac in one step published today after I had used Parallels Transporter just last night with equally startling positive results. There is an error in Tom's column though, Transporter has been included for a while in the lastest series of Parallels betas and release candidates.![Parallels for mac support Parallels for mac support](https://www.alphr.com/sites/alphr/files/styles/insert_main_image/public/images/dir_350/it_photo_175105.jpg)
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Transporter was a phenomenon. I put the DVD my wife's MacBook (white, 2.0 Ghz), pointed Transporter at the image file, and about an hour later, I had the same machine I had mothballed from Virtual PC in Parallels, it was amazing. Of course, there are always some caveats, but it's mostly all on Windows or Microsoft. I mean, I wanted to start with this image to avoid reinstalling XP and SP2 again..- Re-activation. Of course I knew this was going to happen, but it still sucks.
- Driver Update Notification Spasm. This is kind of expected too, and I just cancelled out of all of them, because..
- Parallels Tools for Windows not automatically installed. I didn't expect this to happen before Windows booted, but I did excpect Parallels to be set to autolaunch the Tools install. A minor annoyance, but if you didn't know you were supposed to install the Tools, they probably never get installed because Parallels wasn't also prompting to install
- Virtual PC Add-ons had to be manually removed. This would be really great if Parallels automatically removed whatever previous tools where installed in the VM from your previous VM environment, if that was where you sourced the new VM from. Instead, I had to manually remove the bits, and I do mean manually because using Add/Remove Programs, the Virtual PC add-ons wouldn't let me uninstall them. I had to be running the uninstall from within a VM I was told. I am not going to be too hard on MS on this, but the restriction, and I am surprised they even implemented the check, seems on the surface just unneeded. Virtual PC like Parallels installs Services and drivers, so I had to rip some stuff out of the registry by hand, and I had to use Device Manager, showing hidden devices (View menu -> Show hidden devices -> then Uninstall everything Virtual PC-like under Non-Plug and Play Drivers). But this was easy compared to..
- Windows Update Hell. I decommisioned the Virtual PC image on July 16, 2006. That's only 7 months from yesterday, but it took longer to get XP updated to current patch status as it took Transporter to migrate the Virtual PC image over to Parallels. The really irritating part of the process is you have to keep going back to Windows Update after the last cycle to poll and see if you are completely done. Oh, and I wasn't offered IE 7 once, I had to install that manually. This is why the process of not releasing more service packs is such a terrible decision, you always a bajillion (totally a scientific term btw) updates away from the last service pack to get a clean or not recently patched machine up to spec. I have a question for Microsoft on this. If each of the patches are good enough to release individually, and I have to take them all anyway, why not save us all some pain and put all the most current post-SP2 files in one installation wrapper. Half the time in these Windows Update pain cycles is downloading, verifying, and installing each of these patches by themselves.
What a coincidence that Tom Yager at InfoWorld wrote How to scoop the brains out of a Windows PC and dump them in your Mac in one step published today after I had used Parallels Transporter just last night with equally startling positive results. There is an error in Tom's column though, Transporter has been included for a while in the lastest series of Parallels betas and release candidates.
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When migrating your Windows PC over to your Mac using Parallels Desktop the Parallels Transporter Agent creates a full copy of your Windows PC disk. After such copy is created it is then transferred to your Mac and used as a Virtual Hard disk for the Virtual Machine that will be created as result of migration.
Note: Windows installation and all your data on the source computer (your PC you want to transfer to your Mac) remains intact all the time during the migration process and after the transfer is complete.
For more information please refer to Parallels Desktop User's Guide and KB 115007
If your Windows PC has several disks or partitions you can choose which of them to transfer to your Mac.
Click Customize and select which Windows volumes to migrate.
If you already copied your data from your PC user folder (like Documents, Music, Video, Pictures, Downloads) over to your Mac using OS X Migration Assistant or any other method, you can exclude them from migration as well. Parallels desktop 8 for mac. You just need to check the 'I have already moved..' checkbox as on the screenshot below.
However, due to limitations of Windows operating system it is not possible to exclude applications installed on your PC from migration or to migrate Windows applications from one Virtual Machine to another.
If you need to migrate Windows applications from one Virtual Machine to another Virtual Machine you will have to install them on your other Virtual Machine using the installation packages for those applications. After you install your Windows application on another Virtual Machine you may want to copy the data files related to that application (like databases, settings, bookmarks etc.) from the original Virtual Machine. Alternatively you can use Windows Easy Transfer utility from Microsoft to transfer your Windows installation from one Virtual machine to another.
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It is also not possible to migrate Windows applications from your PC to your Mac without migrating the whole Windows operating system. This is because Windows applications are designed to run on Windows only and OS X installed on your Mac cannot run them.
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