[04Stefan07 (Stefan)]

I've got Parallels 8 all setup on my Mac for Astrophotography. Still learning how to use it. The way it is setup is that I use Coherence mode (share my Mac OS X with the Windows VM environment) and have my main folders shared (Documents, Desktop, etc).

I captured some video with my webcam and saved it to the Desktop of the Windows VM machine. It appeared on my Mac OS X machine since I have that integration mode on. Here are some questions (it all works fine I just would like to understand exactly how it is working) I want to ask.

- I have allocated 80GB to the VM (since capturing videos take GB's). I captured about 5GB of videos. I checked the VM machine size and it did not expand (stayed at 3.5GB), how come?
- As said previously the VM did not expand so I am assuming that the videos are captured straight to the Mac's Desktop (even though in the program I selected the Windows desktop) since it is shared. Is this correct?
- If the videos are captured straight to Mac desktop does that mean I can allocate less space to the Windows VM (say around 20GB instead?).

Thanks.