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Open a Windows 10 Boot Camp Installation on OSX in Parallels (like a VM)

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This guide will show you how you can open a Windows 10 Boot Camp Installation on OSX in Parallels (like a VM).

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Installing Parallels on a Mac allows you to install Windows in A VM, this is handy but you may want to install Windows on a Mac drive with Boot camp (guide here)  for better performance.

Can you load this VM-less Windows install in OSX rather than reboot it, the answer is YES (with Parallels v13).

Setup your Windows Bootcamps (see my guide here).

Create a new VM image in Parallels (Select Boot Camp)

New Image

Click Continue

Use Windows Bootcamp

Confirm the reaction warning.

Before You Proceed

Name the VM and choose a location

Location

Set desired memory etc.

Choose your desired clipboard and disk access settings.

Options

Done, now Parallels will prepare your VM (Really Boot Camp)

Created

Preparing

Creating VM

Parallel tools will be automatically installed.

Configuring

Done, you will now be able to load your Apple Bootcamp partition as it is was a VM inside OSX (or boot it)

Windows

yes, the VM file is pointing to the Boot Camp partition.

VM File

I hope this guide helps someone.

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Ubuntu Desktop OS for Developers

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Did you know you can download and install a free operating system (free Windows Alternative) from https://www.ubuntu.com/ and use it on your own computer or as a virtual machine?

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Ubuntu is a common operating system on cloud providers AWS or Digital Ocean so cloud server installation so installing it locally is a good idea if you are a developer.

Go to https://www.ubuntu.com/ and click Desktop for Developers menu item.

Then click the Download Button next to Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS.

Choose your donation amount (set nothing if you have donated before or cannot afford it).

Click the take me to the download link.

Wait for the download to start or click download now.

 

The download is  1.4Gb in size and may take a while. The file format is an ISO format (an ISO is a copy of a CD, burn it with your favourite CD-Burning package).  Burnt ISO CD’s are bootable.

You can either boot and install Ubuntu alongside your existing operating system in a  virtual environment on Mac OS with Parallels or VirtualBox on Windows. Warning you accidentally can delete your existing operating system and files if you are not sure that you are doing.

I decided to run Ubuntu on my Mac inside Parallels as a virtual machine (this used 5GB space and 1GB memory and 2x CPU’s).

Once I setup Ubuntu it booted up and I was presented with a login screen.

I had a link to a FileManager and Control panel on the left. Help for Ubuntu can he found here https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-help/

The Ubuntu desktop has a Word Processor, Spreadsheet and Presentation package.

Installing NodeJS and other development software (Skip if you are not a  developer).

I installed nodeJS by following the instructions here

You can test the development tools by typing

You can install other development software (NGINX, MySQL etc) by reading my guide here.

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