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#INSTALL CHROME OS ON MAC PARALLEL HOW TO#
#INSTALL CHROME OS ON MAC PARALLEL FOR MAC#
#INSTALL CHROME OS ON MAC PARALLEL INSTALL#
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#INSTALL CHROME OS ON MAC PARALLEL ISO#

#INSTALL CHROME OS ON MAC PARALLEL PASSWORD#

Now choose a user name, password and picture/icon.

Now’s a good time to go warm up that coffee.

Choose the Disk you’ll be installing Vista on and then click Next.

You probably won’t have any choice – so select Custom.

Don’t be at all surprised if you experience a weird “dual mouse cursors” issue (two cursors on the screen but only one actually works) – this will be fixed later by installing Parallels Tools.

Select your language, time and currency format and keyboard type.

#INSTALL CHROME OS ON MAC PARALLEL ISO#

iso don’t worry about the message re: putting the Vista DVD into your drive) Click Finish (by the way, if you’re booting from an.Choose Custom Windows Vista installation and click Next to begin.Back at your Parallels configuration screen, click the Save button to save your changes, and then click the green Power On button from the right sidebar.Make sure that Use image file is selected, and then click the … button to navigate to your Vista image (.iso).Back at your Parallels configuration screen for Vista, click on the CD/DVD-ROM entry in the Resources table.iso file, remove the check from Start guest OS installation, click Finish and continue on with step 14. If you’re installing Vista from a DVD insert it now (if it isn’t already in your DVD drive), leave Start guest OS installation checked, and skip down to Installing Windows Vista.Give your Virtual Machine a name (it doesn’t matter what) and then click Next.You can always switch the “Internet source” later. Note: if you sometimes use Ethernet, but right now you’re using Airport, choose Airport. Don’t leave Default Adapter selected, but do leave Connect cable at startup checked (yes, even if you’re using Airport). Both Wireless and Ethernet (cable) will work, just be sure to select the one you use to connect to the Internet. If you use an Ethernet Adapter, select it. If you use AirPort to connect your Mac to the Internet, select it. Now you’ll need to select (if you have more than one) which of the adapters will provide Vista with its network (Internet) connection.

Select Bridged Ethernet and then click Next.Choose a location to store the hard disk image file (the default is fine).Click Next when you’re ready to continue. Either way, don’t stress out over this decision too much – you can convert from one format to the other, using Parallels Image Tool, if you ever need to. Parallels suggests using Expanding, and since I’ve only noticed a small difference in performance between the two, I would suggest it as well. Review the differences between Expanding and Plain as a disk format.

#INSTALL CHROME OS ON MAC PARALLEL INSTALL#

After Vista has finished installing, I’ll be left with about 13GB of free space – which is plenty to install things like Office, Firefox etc. Because I don’t plan on installing a lot of software, I’ve left the default of 16,000MB (about 16GB).

Now you’ll need to set the size of the “hard drive” that Vista will use.

Select Create a new virtual hard disk and then click Next.

After you’ve selected an amount of memory click Next to continue.

Because I have 2GB in my MacBook Pro, I’ve opted to dedicate half of it (1GB) to Vista. I wouldn’t suggest trying to run Vista without allocating at least 512MB of RAM, ideally more.

Here you’ll need to select the amount of RAM that will be dedicated to the guest operating system (Vista).

Select Windows as the Guest OS Type and Windows Vista as the Guest OS Version.

Select Custom OS installation and then click Next.

Click Next after reviewing the first screen.

If it’s not the first time you’ve used Parallels, launch the Wizard by selecting Install OS

If this is the first time you’re using Parallels, the Wizard will launch automatically.

VMWare is more likely to be the first allowing 3D in a virtual OS. Some additional info: As a friendly digger points out, you won’t be able to run Aero (the fancy graphics stuff in Vista) no matter how great your Mac video card is.

With that said, they will be nearly identical if you have a Mac Pro, Mac Mini, MacBook or any other Intel based Apple Mac, and the process is similar in the newer versions of Parallels.

#INSTALL CHROME OS ON MAC PARALLEL FOR MAC#

The steps and screenshots used for this tutorial are specific to an older version of Parallels Desktop for Mac running on a MacBook Pro w/ OS X (10.4.8).

#INSTALL CHROME OS ON MAC PARALLEL HOW TO#

Similar to How to install Ubuntu in OS X using Parallels – a complete walkthrough, this tutorial will take you every single step of the way through installing Windows Vista using Parallels for OS X.