How to run your Mac's Boot Camp partition as a Virtual Machine

At times there is an urgent need to run a Windows application or program without restarting Mac. Also sometimes, you need to access your Mac's computing power for a Windows program, let's just say- a game. In this regard, you can run Windows partition as a virtual machine in Parallels desktop by using Boot Camp without any need of dual boot.

Open Parallels and click the "+" button in order to create a new virtual machine

Now as you see, you will be shown 4 different primary options for creating a new virtual machine. Here you need to choose the fourth one, i.e, Use Windows from Boot Camp

After proceeding with the above step, you will be warned that Windows may need to be re-activated inside the virtual machine. Check the box to continue and proceed.

Now comes the task of assigning a name and location to your Virtual machine. This is just a configuration file. No virtual drive exists because Parallels will use your entire Boot Camp. Configure as per your wish and continue.

Now Parallels begins with its work. All you've got to do is wait. At some point of time Parallels may ask you to log in to your Microsoft account after which installation of Parallels tools will begin automatically.

Finally you'll see that everything has been configured properly. You can now use your new virtual machine.

You Boot Camp partition is now being used by your new virtual machine which means that anything you do in the virtual machine will be ready for you when you log in to Windows directly using Boot Camp.

So all features of Parallels are supported here. You can also use Coherence Mode to run Windows and Mac apps side by side. The only thing to downvote here is the activation. As Windows and MS Office are activated for specifically one machine, they will see the virtual machine as a completely different one.