switch from parallel to boot camp

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Hi,
Ive been searching in vain for ways to switch from parallel to boot camp in OSX without the need to install Windows..Is there no soution for this ? What's the easiest way to complete the switch then? Appreciate any advise.

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Not speaking specifically about Parallels to Boot Camp, but rather from my Linux experience of VirtualBox(or VMWare) to dual-boot, there is no way of transferring the installation from the virtual environment to the native environment.

Apart from the drivers being virtualized without Parallels/VirtualBox/VMware, there's no way of mounting the single file that contains the filesystem used by these software.

If there was a way of mounting the file separately, then it might be possible to send that image to another part of the HD and get it to boot somehow..

But, long story short, as far as I know you're going to have to re-install.

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You can use a Boot Camp installation to create a Parallels or Fusion virtual machine, but you can't go the other way. You need to install Windows again under Boot Camp.

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