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Keyboard and Mouse work normal, just as expected, but the LMP-Thing doesn't seem to get recognized as an input device by Parallels? If I connect BlueTooth to the Parallels-VM, the entire BlueTooth is in Parallels, so Keyboard and Mouse would stop working in Mac OS. However, it appears that parallels does not recognize that bluetooth is available (no control panel, drivers, etc). I have heard you can remap a serial as bluetooth to use it in Parallels, but can't find documentation anywhere on how to do that. Of those tools, Parallels is the most intuitive, user-friendly, and most reliable that I have found. If you need to run Windows or Linux on your Mac, Parallels is highly recommended although you will need to upgrade it about every three years.
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I suspect the answer to this question will be 'no,' but I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
I use Parallels Desktop on my Mac to run a small CentOS installation for development work. I own Parallels Workstation for Windows. Is it possible to create one PVM and use it with both Parallels Desktop and Parallels Workstation?
https://renewanalysis570.weebly.com/blog/how-to-use-parallels-desktop-11-for-mac. It doesn't appear anyone's tried to do this, probably because it's impossible. So far, my attempts have not been very fruitful - cloning an existing PVM to a FAT32-formatted disk fails due to file system differences - but if someone wants to offer me a shred of hope that this can be done, I'll happily keep trying all night.
(A similar question was asked about sharing VirtualBox virtual machines between Windows and OSX and received 0 answers.)
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I came to the conclusion that this could not be done at the time because:
- File system differences would require the PVM be kept on a FAT32 or ExFAT drive. FAT32 would limit file sizes to <4GiB, which may be impossible for .mem and .hds files; ExFAT was not supported by my OS X installation (I have since upgraded).
- The PVM would need to run from an external drive, which would have reduced throughput (especially for a Mac with USB 2 only).
- Some differences between the versions of Desktop and Workstation meant that my VM would need to be converted each time I swapped machines. What does parallels do for mac.
- Parallels for mac reviews. It was just plain faster to stand up a new VM on each machine and use a network drive than it was to do all the above.
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I didn't try that one myself as the only Windows I have is the one running in a VM ;-). But I would expect it to be possible.
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Well, the VM should be a self enclosed format that contains everything needed to boot the system. And when distributing a VM to others you seldom know which parent-OS they use. So it should be possible to boot up a VM in Parallels on OS-X and - after shutting the VM down - boot up the same VM in Parallels for Windows.
So as long as you are not using the machine on both parent-OSes simultaniously I would try it.
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