Pros and Cons of Boot Camp, Boot Camp-Based VM, and Parallels Desktop Virtual Machine
You can, but you will need to purchase an additional Windows 10 Pro license in order to activate in Boot Camp. The Parallels and Boot Camp environments are two separate computers under the terms of the Windows 10 End User License. Buy Windows 10 Home/Pro. As others have said, no way to go from Parallels to Bootcamp. You would need to setup the bootcamp, and then run a system migration tool between those two systems (could transfer Parallels VM to.
| Run Windows by Booting Mac from Boot Camp | Parallels Desktop Runs Windows on Boot Camp Partition | Parallels Desktop Runs Windows in a VM | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Performance | Best** | OK | OK |
| Run Windows applications on Mac without reboot | |||
| Disk space usage* | High | High | Low |
| Convenient VM features: Suspend and Resume, Snapshots | *** | ||
| Easy backup | |||
| Easy move to the new Mac |
Teamviewer for mac free download. *See disk space information below.
**While Boot Camp provides performance benefits to high-end graphics-intensive applications, most Office workloads don't benefit from using Boot Camp.
***You can suspend and resume Windows on a Boot Camp partition in Parallels Desktop, but you should not suspend when you reboot your Mac to Boot Camp. Otherwise, the data is lost.
| Run Windows by Booting Mac from Boot Camp | |
|---|---|
| Performance | Best** |
| Run Windows applications on Mac without reboot | |
| Disk space usage* | High |
| Convenient VM features: Suspend and Resume, Snapshots | |
| Easy backup | |
| Easy move to the new Mac | |
| Parallels Desktop Runs Windows on Boot Camp Partition | |
|---|---|
| Performance | OK |
| Run Windows applications on Mac without reboot | |
| Disk space usage* | High |
| Convenient VM features: Suspend and Resume, Snapshots | *** |
| Easy backup | |
| Easy move to the new Mac | |
| Parallels Desktop Runs Windows in a VM | |
|---|---|
| Performance | OK |
| Run Windows applications on Mac without reboot | |
| Disk space usage* | Low |
| Convenient VM features: Suspend and Resume, Snapshots | |
| Easy backup | |
| Easy move to the new Mac | |
Turn Parallels Vm Into Bootcamp
Download a copy of mac os to restore my macbook pro. *See disk space information below.
**While Boot Camp provides performance benefits to high-end graphics-intensive applications, most Office workloads don't benefit from using Boot Camp.
***You can suspend and resume Windows on a Boot Camp partition in Parallels Desktop, but you should not suspend when you reboot your Mac to Boot Camp. Otherwise, the data is lost.
Parallels Bootcamp To Virtual Machine
Amount of free disk space in Boot Camp not available to Mac applications: