Parallels and Windows XP Boot Camp install

So with the Windows installation with Boot Camp, you can now run Parallels within Mac OS X with the same installation of Windows that you installed via Boot Camp.

Of course you have to be running the latest version 3 of Parallels which you can download from their website. You have to have both your version 3 and 2 license codes if you upgraded.

If you get this error:

[C] My Boot Camp

Timed out waiting for the file system to initialize.
The volume has been ejected. You can use the init_timeout mount option to wait
longer.

Then you can read more in this thread http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?p=87017#post87017 and the Parallels FAQ says:

6. Getting Timeout error message when mounting VM Windows disks

Install the latest MacFUSE release, available at
http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/downloads/list.

Then go to Finder -> Preferences and tick out "Connected servers".

This seems to fix that problem for me. I also had problems about a certain HAL.DLL being corrupted at one stage but a boot into Windows fully and back to Parallels boot seems to have fixed that. This was a better solution than Parallels' own suggestion of replacing the file! (given here: http://kb.parallels.com/entry/63/526/).

More info about Parallels, Windows and Boot Camp install here: http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=2990&article=Apple+Bootcamp+versus+Parallels