Installing Guest OS in Parallels

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i just switched to mac, and i don't know how to install windows in parallels... I have the CD w/ SP2, and it worked on boot camp... when i start the VM a screen tells me to hold the power button to restart, but after restart nothing happens...what am i doing wong??
 
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Are you turning the power off to your machine or to the virtual machine?

I believe you tell your virtual machine to restart, with the xp cd in your drive.

Hope that helps
 
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but when this restart screen shows up everything freezes...not like an error, but as if it was programmed to...
 
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I have been trying to install Win Xp into Parallels all weekend, and I am running into the exact same problem. Does anyone know what we are doing wrong? Please help!
 
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ok...i've found the problem... is something like a kernell error...dunno...but the solution is this RC2 from parallels
 

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