There is a specific trick to doing this with Parallels Desktop. For whatever nonsensical reason, Desktop does not allow you to copy over an existing non-active startup volume from a drive or the current startup volume. Plus, you can’t just take an OSX install disc and run it on the virtual machine (something that is normal for their Windows virtual machines).
What you have to do is have your legacy startup volume up and have it running on a separate Mac, create an empty Mac virtual machine within Desktop, connect the two acs via a cable, then import the startup volume from the second Mac to the first Mac. It is a huge headache, as it requires two machines, plus there is the issue that an OS X install is tailored to the specific machine on which it is being installed. For best results, you need two identical machines.
It’s a pain in the neck, but Parallels has not yet accepted the idea that creating virtual Macs should be as easy as creating virtual PCs.
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