From the Source drop-down list, choose your physical Boot Camp partition.

In the Configuration window, switch to Hardware tab → Hard Disk 1.

Make sure the Customize settings before installation box is checked.

Choose the type of operating system installed in Boot Camp.

On the next page, click Locate manually and Continue without a source box.

Choose Install Windows or another OS from DVD or image file and then click Continue.

If the option to Use Windows from Boot Camp isn’t present in Parallels Wizard, try the steps below: In the Parallels Wizard, choose Use Windows from Boot Camp and click Continue. With Parallels Desktop active, go to your Mac upper menu and select File → New. Option 1: Using your existing Boot Camp installation.įire up Parallels Desktop. You can take advantage of two different options in Parallels Desktop to work with a Boot Camp partition.

Let me refresh what we’ve written in the past with updated instructions and the latest operating systems. But time flies fast, and Microsoft came up with Windows 10-not to mention, we recently released Parallels Desktop 11. One of my co-workers has previously written about the general procedure on how to set up a Windows virtual machine in Parallels Desktop based on your Boot Camp partition. Guest blog by Dhruba Jyoti Das, Parallels Support Team

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