Boot Camp partition to use with Parallels

[Carlog200]

I currently have a boot camp xp partition used for productivity and gaming. If I were to purchase the Parallels software offered in the mac update bundle would I be able to easily access it in virtualization software and when gaming as a boot camp boot?

I searched and found mixed answers..

 

[dukebound85]

parallels can use the bootcamp install

 

[emperoruriel]

Although yes parallels is able to use the boot camp partition to virtualize,
some features like the snapshots are disabled.

 

[andyclhui]

If the Bootcamp partition were used, would Parallels Desktop still need the hard disk space (say 32GB) under OS X to store the virtual machine? Or it would make use of the disk space in the NTFS/FAT32 partition? Thanks in advance.

 

[Keleko]

It just uses the Boot Camp install. So there's no VM stored anywhere in OS X.