I have successfully converted my large Parallels VM to work in Fusion, but cannot quite get it working for the following reasons:
1) Fusion apparently regards the converted virtual hard drive as SCSI :smileyalert: rather than IDE, and wants me to load new drivers, which I so far have not found--though the old ones apparently work.
2) The mouse doesn't work at all within the VM once the boot process commences, though the keyboard does. Moreover, Windows immediately demands reactivation (surprise, surprise), and won't load the GUI until I do so, returning me continually to to same demand if I select "no". Thus I cannot autodetect the proper mouse drivers. Moreover, I cannot install the VMWare tools, which would presumably fix the problem.
By booting into safe mode, I've determined that the old Parallels mouse driver persists in the converted VM, although I removed Parallels Tools before conversion; efforts to find a new one on the disk within safe mode came to naught.
3) Normally, I would boot from the CD and do a repair install to get all the drivers sorted. However, the CD refuses to mount. If I force it to mount after interrupting the boot process, and then boot from it directly, the install program cannot find a hard drive, presumably because it doesn't have the proper SCSI drivers.
So it would appear that there are two short paths to a solution:
a) I could edit the .vmx file to properly mount the CD together with the HD, if only I knew how to do so. My experiments have come to naught because I do not know the proper syntax.
b) I could manually load the proper SCSI drivers during the CD boot process if only I knew where they were and how to make them accessible; perhaps I could slipsteam a new CD?
The longer path, of course, would be to alter the converter so it sorts this out, for which a vote is hereby cast.
Any help that could be leant would be greatly appreciated.
