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Installation went smoothly and only took about 15 minutes.
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I had to use the "Install Windows from DVD or image file" option (more on this dumb naming later) and pick the Lion DVD image I have. The Parallels team wanted to make it easy for people by letting you install Lion from the recovery partition that is automatically created with Lion installs, but my attempts failed despite clearly having a Recovery HD partition on my SSD: Both VMware and Parallels have support for sharing, but no 3D acceleration for Lion VMs. This is obviously of limited appeal to end users and meant to be something tech support types would want to use for sandboxing testing environments. Apple recently changed its policy regarding virtualization of OS X non-server versions, so booting Lion in a VM is now legal and supported by both Parallels Desktop 7 and VMware Fusion 4.
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