User`s guide

Using the Boot Camp Partition in a Virtual Machine 257
Note: Using Boot Camp Windows via virtual machine may require to re-activate the guest
operating system.
After that, you can use Boot Camp as usually to boot into the Windows partition, or you can
boot into it via Parallels virtual machine, see the Booting via Parallels Virtual Machine section (p.
261).
Limitations for Parallels Virtual Machines Using the Boot Camp Partition
There is a number of limitations for a Parallels virtual machine that uses the Boot Camp
Windows partition either as a bootable volume or as a data disk:
 it cannot be suspended or paused
 such a virtual machine cannot have snapshots and the Safe Mode feature (p. 126) cannot be
enabled for it
 it cannot be compressed
Note: There are no limitations on types of users who can access the Boot Camp Windows
partition from a virtual machine. You can log into Windows even if you don't have administrator
rights.