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Here is what I need to do: I need to run Photoshop to print labels for my wife's business. The challenge is that the printer is old, and the drivers for it died with the upgrade to Yosemite. So, I moved the PS license to Windows, obtained a full license copy of Win7 and installed it in Parallels. Win7 is also the last version of Windows for which the Windows driver works.
I don't mind booting Parallels just to open PS, do minor editing of the label and to print, but I was wondering if it wouldn't be simpler to somehow get a Virtualbox implementation that had PS and the printer driver and run that instead of Parallels. I did some research into how to convert a Parallels .hdd so that VB could open it, but none of what I tried worked. I got the .hdd extracted, but VB insists it cannot read the file. Here is what it puts out:
Frankly, if the solution is to reinstall WIn7 and PS under VB, I probably won't bother with all that, but if it's possible to do and if it's possible to convert what I've already installed, I might give it a go.
TIA,
I don't mind booting Parallels just to open PS, do minor editing of the label and to print, but I was wondering if it wouldn't be simpler to somehow get a Virtualbox implementation that had PS and the printer driver and run that instead of Parallels. I did some research into how to convert a Parallels .hdd so that VB could open it, but none of what I tried worked. I got the .hdd extracted, but VB insists it cannot read the file. Here is what it puts out:
So, can someone tell me a) is is possible/practical to use VB to run PS and print to this aging printer b) assuming it is possible/practical, is there a way to do that from the Parallels VM I already have?Failed to open the disk image file /Volumes/Internal HD/Windows 7-0.hdd.
The medium '/Volumes/Internal HD/Windows 7-0.hdd' can't be used as the requested device type.
Result Code: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005)
Component: MediumWrap
Interface: IMedium {4afe423b-43e0-e9d0-82e8-ceb307940dda}
Callee: IVirtualBox {0169423f-46b4-cde9-91af-1e9d5b6cd945}
Callee RC: VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND (0x80BB0001)
Frankly, if the solution is to reinstall WIn7 and PS under VB, I probably won't bother with all that, but if it's possible to do and if it's possible to convert what I've already installed, I might give it a go.
TIA,