InstallAware

Hello:

I am not a Mac user so bare with me as I try to describe the issue:

I have a Health Practitioner software package that I'm using InstallAware (8.0) to install on Windows XP/Vista systems. It has a Firebird database installed as well. There is nothing particularly fancy about the installation.

There are some users who insist on running it on a Mac with Vista loaded using Parallels 4.0. They have successfully loaded other Windows programs, but when installing using InstallAware, instead of using the assigned file directory (in the Users\\<logged> area), the Installer/Mac wants to use what I believe is a virtualized disc space called "Home (.psf) Z:". They are running the installer using an Admin login.

In InstallAware, I use the screen/form which shows the directory that the program will be installed to and it looks like I could at that point change the file locations, but why is the installer location changed from my settings? Is there something happening here that I can change thus forcing it to install on the HDD to my directed locations and not to this virtualized disc?

Thanks,

Chuck Belanger

After some Parallels and BootCamp googling, and learning what the two are, I searched on VMWare in IA and found the setting I was looking for.

In Design, Application Requirements at the bottom of the page is a check box to exclude/include the ability to install on virtual machines. For whatever reason the box was checked which meant it would NOT install on such a system. I'm assuming that IA saw Parallels as a VMWare-like environment and acted accordingly.

I've posted the installer for my users and I'm waiting to hear if it installed properly.

Of course, there is the other issue: Will my resource heavy app work properly in a Parallels v.s. Bootcamp, which actually boots into Windows, natively?

Chuck