The VM can’t be paused, you can’t save snapshots of a Boot Camp Windows, it can’t run in Safe Mode and it can’t be compressed to save storage. The two OSes don’t really talk to one another, much like they don’t in Boot Camp.
Mac parallels full#
While you can run your Boot Camp Windows 10 in a window or full screen, it acts like an isolated OS – there’s no dragging and dropping between Windows and macOS, no Coherence mode.
There are key differences between accessing your Boot Camp partition from Parallels and a straight Windows 10 virtual machine too.
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You have to install the Boot Camp partition first and then point Parallels at it – you can’t set this up using Parallel’s wizards. Then we come to that best of both worlds solution: accessing your Boot Camp partition from Parallels.įirst, you have to get your ducks in a row. Accessing a Boot Camp partition from Parallels You can even set Windows apps to be the default application for certain file formats. Right-click on an image file on the macOS desktop, for example, and choose Open With, and Windows art applications will appear in the dropdown menu alongside the native Mac apps. The Mac disks appear as Network Locations from within Windows, as if they are a NAS drive. Likewise, Windows apps have full read/write access to the Mac partition, so you can use their File | Open dialogs to open and save files. If, for example, you have an image saved in your macOS folders that you want to edit in, you simply drag and drop it from Finder into the application.
Whether you’re running apps in full desktop or Coherence mode, one huge advantage of Parallels over Boot Camp is that you can just drag and drop files between them. You even get access to the built-in Windows apps (a Windows app launcher is installed in the Dock, acting as a virtual Windows Start menu), so if you prefer the Windows Calendar to the macOS equivalent, you can run it without fuss. The ability to mix and match apps, irrespective of which OS they’re coded for, is enormously useful. I have to say, Coherence mode is absolutely brilliant. The apps even get their own icon in the macOS Dock, the only difference being they are overlaid with the two red vertical lines of the Parallels logo to indicate they’re virtualised. Or you can run Windows applications in what’s called Coherence mode, where the Windows apps are contained within their own window just like a native macOS app. You can choose full desktop mode, where the Windows desktop appears as a window or full screen within macOS.
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If you find your Windows installation is gobbling too much space, you can “reclaim” it using Parallels’ control panel (provided you’ve got free disk space in the Windows virtual drive, that is). If you need more storage, it can take it. And although you will be asked how much disk space you want to afford the virtual Windows 10 installation, this is – unlike a Boot Camp partition – dynamic. Like Boot Camp, Parallels handles the Windows installation for you – you don’t even have to have the image downloaded in advance. If you still want access to these and other Windows tools, without having to dive out of macOS and reboot into Windows every time you want to, say, record a Skype call, installing Windows 10 in Parallels Desktop is the way forward. There are many little Windows apps that don’t have direct macOS versions or equivalents. Running Windows as a virtual machine in Parallels You can store files on external storage or use a cloud service such as Dropbox or OneDrive to keep files synced between the two, but it’s awkward in a way that installing via Parallels is not.
It’s not a complete deal breaker if you need to access files from either OS. In Windows, you can’t even see the macOS partition without workarounds. You can see the Boot Camp partition from within macOS and see its files listed, but you can’t open them. The biggest is that the two OSes don’t play nicely.
Mac parallels pro#
Apple MacBook Pro 16in review: A little bigger, a lot better Google and Parallels bring native Windows apps to Chromebooks Apple's ARM-based Macs won't support Windows virtualisationīoot Camp does have drawbacks, though.
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