User`s guide

Using Parallels Add-Ons 191
Migration Scenarios
Parallels Transporter offers you several typical migration scenarios depending on the purpose of
migration. After you make up your mind and choose the scenario, you can refer to Parallels
Transporter Help for further instructions on the selected scenario of migration.
Using Parallels Transporter, you can migrate:
 from a remote computer
 from a third-party virtual machine
 from a remote computer locally
Parallels Transporter has two migration modes:
 Express. This mode allows quick migration of one active volume. As a result, you will get a
ready-to-use Parallels virtual machine which will have the guest operating system installed
and all the applications and data you used on that volume.
 Advanced. This mode allows migration of several volumes at once. In one session of
migration, only one active volume (if selected so) can be made bootable. The new virtual
machine will be created with this volume as its virtual hard disk. Other volumes will be
migrated as data disks if they have file systems supported by Parallels Transporter Agent.
Migrating from a remote computer
In this scenario, you should use Parallels Transporter on the host computer and Parallels
Transporter Agent on the PC you want to migrate.
The volume where Parallels Transporter Agent is installed is called the active volume. The
operation is supported for the active volumes with the following operating systems:
 Windows 2000
 Windows Server 2003
 Windows XP
 Windows Vista.
Parallels Transporter can apply necessary changes only to the listed operating systems so that
the images of active volumes can be bootable in Parallels virtual machines.
If you want to use a migrated disk as a boot volume (system disk) in your virtual machine you
must provide an installation disc for the operating system that runs on the active volume of the
source computer (you can also use an ISO image of such an installation disc). Parallels
Transporter may need to reinstall a few drivers, because hardware on the source computer and
default virtual hardware of a virtual machine are different.
Warning: If you migrate a volume with a Windows OS installed on it and want to use its
image as a bootable virtual disk, please note that there may be activation problems: a
Windows OS migrated to a virtual machine may detect that the hardware has changed and
require that you reactivate your copy of Windows.