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since BootCamp lets you install Windows on the REAL (native) hardware instead of using virtualized hardware like Parallels, it is the first choice to use when wanting full speed.
Also Parallels (and VMWare Fusion btw.) have only experimental support for DirectX 9.0 at the moment and most (if not all) recent games that are using hardware-accelerated 3D don't even work with it.
http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/
To avoid trouble when installing BootCamp I always propose to make a backup of your OSX files or clone the whole OSx partition to an external HD, just in case.
Regards
Stefan
since BootCamp lets you install Windows on the REAL (native) hardware instead of using virtualized hardware like Parallels, it is the first choice to use when wanting full speed.
Also Parallels (and VMWare Fusion btw.) have only experimental support for DirectX 9.0 at the moment and most (if not all) recent games that are using hardware-accelerated 3D don't even work with it.
http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/
To avoid trouble when installing BootCamp I always propose to make a backup of your OSX files or clone the whole OSx partition to an external HD, just in case.
Regards
Stefan
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I am running out of free space on my virtual machine, and I want to increase the size of the virtual hard disk.
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Even if you have an expanding virtual hard disk, it won’t expand above the limit set in virtual hard disk configuration. Parallels. To allow further expansion, you must increase the size manually.
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Warning! We strongly recommend that you check your virtual machine's hard disk for errors and back up your virtual machine before following the steps below.
Note: This article does not apply to Boot Camp virtual machines, where the primary partition size cannot be increased.
Starting from version 14, Parallels Desktop will periodically check free disk space left in the virtual hard disk and offer to increase (resize) hard disk via macOS notifications.
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To increase virtual hard disk size, do the following:
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- Start Parallels Desktop and do not start your virtual machine. Shut it down if it is either suspended or running.
- Click on the Parallels icon on Mac menu bar and select Control Center:
- Right-click on your virtual machine and choose Configure to open its configuration.Parallels desktop for mac full. The amount of video RAM allocated to the guest OS was made adjustable, up to 32MB. Version 2.5 brought support for USB 2.0 devices, which expanded the number of USB devices supported at native speed, including support for built in USB web-cams.
- For Parallels Desktop 14:
Go to the Hardware tab, select Hard Disk which requires increasing the size then expand Advanced Settings drop-down menu, then click Properties.
For earlier Parallels Desktop versions:
Go to the Hardware tab, select Hard Disk which requires increasing the size then click Properties. - If the virtual machine has Snapshots the following notification window will appear. Press Manage Snapshots.. to open the corresponding dialogue window then remove Snapshots to start editing the disk size.
- Choose the size you want for the virtual hard disk and click Apply.
- After that Parallels Desktop will suggest creating a backup of the virtual machine.NOTE: As mentioned above, we strongly recommend to create a backup of the virtual machine. In case of power surges/failures with the Mac, Mac's unpredictable restarts or third-party applications interventions, during the operations with the virtual hard drive may result in its corruption result in in the inability to use the virtual machine.
To proceed further click Continue.
To make sure the changes were applied successfully, confirm that the size of the virtual hard disk has changed:
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- Start the virtual machine.
- Right-click on the Start menu > Disk Management.
The size of the main partition (the partition where the Windows installation is located—it is local disk (C:) by default) should equal the size of the virtual hard disk (Hard Disk 1).
If the size of Hard Disk in the virtual machine’s configuration has changed and at the same time the size of the local disk (C:) in Windows has not, do the following:
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- Repeat steps mentioned above to open Disk Management.
- Disk Management reports that you now have an extra partition on the hard drive that’s marked as Unallocated. You can add this Unallocated partition manually to your main disk (C:) partition:
- Right-click on the main (C:) partition and select Extend Volume.
- Extend Volume Wizard will open. Click Next.Parallels Desktop 10 for Mac. Parallels Desktop 10 is fully compatible with OS X Yosemite. For more information about upgrading to Parallels Desktop 10 see KB 122647. Parallels Desktop 11 for Mac. Parallels Desktop 11 is fully compatible with OS X Yosemite. Parallels for mac yosemite.
- On the Select Disk page, you may choose how much extra space should be added to the main (C:) partition. By default, the whole Unallocated partition will be added. Click Next.
- Click Finish on the next page, and the Unallocated partition will be added to the (C:) partition.
- Click Start and type This/this and click on the suggested This PC Desktop app.
- Right-click on the C: drive and select Properties.