From parallels to boot camp

Hi, i have xp installed through parallels, and i was wondering if there is ny way to use teh virtual disk partition w/ boot camp, so i don't have to create a new partition for the dual boot. Also, if i delete the my virtual machine, will it also delete the virtual disk, giving me back the space the virtual disk was taking up?

The virtual disk is a file AFAIK but you should check the documentation from Parallels before deleting it. I have Virtual PC on my G5, and the Winders system is all on one virtual file.
I do not think you can use anything from the Parallels install to work with bootcamp, although the other way around does work.
You might get more information in the bootcamp forum where the users are running Parallels, BootCamp and such.
Here's the link:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1244

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