Open Terminal.app and type ifconfig en0, the MAC address should be located on the line that says “ether 00:00:00:00:00:00”, where ’00:00:00:00:00:00′ would be the code you’re looking for.Find the MAC address of your Apples’s “en0” adaptor.The process (reiterated from the above thread), is very simple: To cut a long story short, I am now able to boot the same Boot Camp installation of XP both directly AND via Parallels without having WGA complain and invalidate my copy! Alas, as most others, I was frustrated to find out that Parallels’ so-called 3D support was actually marginal support for DirectX 8.1, and absolutely NO support for DX9 or greater.Īfter all but giving up hope, I came across this comment on the afore-mentioned lifehacker post, which pointed me to a Parallels’ forum thread.
Boot camp 2.1 for windows xp upgrade#
Thus, when Parallels 3 came out I immediately paid for the upgrade (even before the release) for the much promised ‘3D’ support, which, I believed, would enable me to play at least some of my games under Parallels, thus relatively eliminating the need to boot into XP. No matter how much I searched I couldn’t find a way to use the same installation under both circumstances. The reason for this is that Parallels has to create a new hardware profile which XP picks up as a different machine, and invalidates your installation. You have a Boot Camp installation that you either run through Parallels, or by itself. The reason I’ve been doing this is because even though Parallels touts being able to run a boot camped windows installation, you can’t do BOTH (at least not off the shelf). One on Boot Camp, used for gaming and other resource-intensive tasks, and the other exclusively on Parallels, used for running some random software I come across and also to test the websites I build in IE. Since my first installation of Boot Camp and Parallels, I’ve kept two separate Windows XP installations on my drive. The tips and techniques explained may be outdated. This post was originally published in 2007
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