Parallels has released Parallels Desktop for Mac Release Candidate 3 (Build 3170).
New features and enhancements introduced in Release Candidate 3 include:
• Windows XP to Windows Vista upgrade support
• USB 2.0 support – “Plug and play” popular USB devices like external hard drives, printers, scanners and web cameras including iSight at full native speed
• Full-feature virtual CD/DVD drive – Burn CDs and DVDs directly in virtual machines, and play any copy-protected CD or DVD
• Coherence improvements
• Improved Boot Camp support
• For advanced users: configurating the layout of Boot Camp partitions by manual editing of Virtual Machine’s .pvs configuration file
• Transporter RC3 bundled – migrate your real Windows PC, or existing VMware or Virtual PC VMs to Parallels virtual machines
• Keyboard remapping configuration
• New Look and Feel – completely redesigned windows and easier to follow dialogues to make Desktop for Mac more user-friendly than ever
• True “Drag and Drop” functionality – a long awaited feature that lets you seamlessly drag and drop files and folders from Windows to Mac OS X and vice versa. Parallels Desktop now shares the entire Mac file structure between OS X and Windows – no more worrying about which copy of the file is the most recently updated
More info and download link here.
Incredible program. Love it!
“Parallels Desktop now shares the entire Mac file structure between OS X and Windows”
Does this mean that if the Windows OS gets infected and starts to wipe out my Windows partition or files, my OSX partition and files will be wiped out or infected as well? If that’s the case, then Parallels sucks now. I liked the isolation of OS’s of the previous builds.
Apple please buy this company before someone else does
“NOTE! The activation keys for local versions of Parallels Desktop for Mac do not work with our current RC3 build of Parallels Desktop for Mac. This regards to UK, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Czech, Polish and Japanese versions. If you’re using any of those local Parallels products and want to try and evaluate our great features such as Coherence, USB 2.0 support, Transporter, and other, please order the 15-day trial activation key below.”
“Does this mean that if the Windows OS gets infected and starts to wipe out my Windows partition or files, my OSX partition and files will be wiped out or infected as well? If that’s the case, then Parallels sucks now. I liked the isolation of OS’s of the previous builds.”
Quit being paranoid and RTFM. If you did, you’d see that the sharing of the file structure is something that you can limit if you choose to.
Parallels is the best developed software I’ve seen in many, many years. It’s incredible how far it’s come along in less than a year.
“Apple please buy this company before someone else does”
Agreed! BUY IT NOW!!!
Rop,
Go take your angry replies somewhere else “Quit being paranoid and RTFM.”
Let’s keep MDN civilized.
> Coherence improvements
I was wondering what that meant…
http://www.parallels.com/products/desktop/coherence/
I saw this demonstrated at MacWorld. It’s like Windows is not running at all, just the apps. Of course, Windows is running in the background, but the Windows apps look like they are running in Mac OS X.
R,
What the hell does “Let’s keep MDN civilized” mean?
One of the things I like about MDN is that it is gloriously uncivilized!
Yeah, R. Lighten up you ninny.
Macaroni …
NEW! Global sharing is disabled by default. The enabling promt pops up on first “Drag and Drop” attempt.
so that means no you cant get infected. .. This was enabled by default which meant the Windows system had full access to your whole OSX drive. Not a good idea but as it says now it have been DISABLED.. where u got the idea this version had it enabled I dont know but if you check the link from the above article youll see what I copied and pasted. Not that you can get a windows virus on the Mac but some kind person chould of taken advantage maybe but that door is closed now.
Hope that clarifies thing for you and others
I predict the following events:
– Microsoft will buy Parallels, MS will sell Parallels with Vista bundled versions
– Apple will introduce a version of Darwine in Leopard (run Windows apps without Windows) Apple will host a list of tested compatible Windows applications.
Microsoft soon kills off Parallels
– Dell’s stock will continue to plummet and they will seek bankruptcy protection
– Apple and IBM secretly join forces to retool Enterprise size businesses with the added help of Google all working together using Linux, Mac OS X and open standards.
– Microsoft gets wind of this and kills off Office for Mac but nobody really cares.
– Microsoft stock plummets. Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates leave Microsoft.
– Seeing that Apple has now reached the stars and is on a winning track for the future, Steve Jobs steps down and appoints his successor apprentice (unknown). Steve still remains on Apple’s board.
I thought Vista was not allowed to run on a virtual machine.
I have to say that that R is an imposter. But he/she has a point.
Can we have some more MAC fangirlz?
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/tag/mac-chick-of-the-month-feb-2007-237615.php
Maybe she’s a ipod doctor
sorry, this has nothing to do with the above story, er, unless parellels is running on her ibook.
My mistake, they’re a macbook, i mean, it’s.
Vista can run as a VM.. The EULA (End User License Agreement) according to some interperates that the cheaper version of VIsta (not that anyone would call any version cheap!) are not allowed to used as a VM
The Ultimate and one other is definitly 100% legalally allowed to be run as a VM.
Somepeople think the license really means that you are only allowed to run your copy of Vista on one machine .. but of course the business units that can be different. So interpert it the way you want. Frankly Vista runs like a pig compared to XP under parallels. Yep and that was on a top of the line 2 g’s memory MBPro
“Vista can run as a VM.. The EULA (End User License Agreement) according to some interperates that the cheaper version of VIsta (not that anyone would call any version cheap!) are not allowed to used as a VM”
Any version of Vista is expensively cheap.
Vista on Parallels. I’d keep using XP as long as possible. Parallels does a great job of “hiding Windows,” so what’s the point of adding the extra eye-candy and worthless security bloat from Vista.
Microsoft soon kills off Parallels
MS already owns Virtual PC and has no need for another virtualization platform, even as a strategic move. Besides, if they kill Parallels it will only be replaced by VMware or any number of solutions that will pop up in its place.
Frankly Vista runs like a pig compared to XP under parallels. Yep and that was on a top of the line 2 g’s memory MBPro
Laptops suck compared to the performance of a Mac Pro.
Towers:
1: Can add more memory, lots of RAM is faster than paging to a hard drive.
2: You can use 10,000 to even 15,000 RPM enterprise drives unlike the pig slow 5400 or 7200 RPM hobbled laptop drives.
3: Graphics are seperate processors, not integrated with the CPU and can be upgraded as well.
4: Can RAID 0 boot drives for the extreme read/write speed.
5: Don’t burn your lap, less fragile, less able to get lost or stolen and can run 2-3 even four OS’s at the same time.
6: Most people turn laptops into desktop macines eventually.
7: Laptops are stuck with two cores due to heat, new Mac Pro towers to come with 8 cores for just a bit more money than a MBP.
8: Can upgrade and add monitors without performance loss.
Laptops can do some things, but performance is not one of them.
One buys a expensive MBP for status and necessary portability.
It’s certainly not a great value.
So I have boot Camp but just for games. I had a hassle trying the last Parallels 2, and never got it to work right and wound up backing up my whole Mac hard drive partition (Wow! Disk utility makes it easy!) and wiping the drive, re-installing and restoring (using Migration assistant.) I’m willing to try again, but don’t want the hassle of trying to get it to work with Boot Camp. I have a MacBook Pro – the current model with the Core2 Duo chip(s).
Also, why do almost all the MacBook Pro laptops I see on TV have the Apple logo covered? Are people ashamed of using Macs? Or are the agencies afraid of reprisal for using Apple laptops? I don’t get it. I can see why they might not want to give Apple the free advertising, it’s pretty obvious to anyone who uses laptops that these are not Windows PCs. At least Veronica Mars uses a Mac and doesn’t hide the fact. And her geek tech friend is named Mac, which is pretty cool!
@rop, no, a virus infecting your boot camp, or parallels “partition in a file” will not affect your mac os x partition.
a virus capable of doing that would have to be designed for that purpose, that’s even less likely to happen than a virus infecting your Mac OS directly.
why would a programmer write a virus for such a special case, when a much simpler virus can do the trick ? ( a windows virus capable of infecting a mac os partition has to be capable of reading/writing an HFS partition, without having the HFS file system available to do it !, that’s VERY complicated)
WiseGuy,
There’s a couple of hates I have in this world and one of these hates relates to people who either can’t spell or are too lazy to use a spell checker. Given the amount of copy you’ve provided us with to read I think you fall into the latter case!
The offending word is”seperate”. Try separate. Safari has a spell checker so try using it. I’m using Camino to view MDN’s page but it has no spell checking facility so I use a dictionary.
Look WG I’m not trying to be nasty but you’ve picked up other people’s rape of the English language. What I tell my students is to start reading newspapers, magazines and books. You’ll be a better human being by doing this. Just my $US0.02 worth.
maybe you should tell your students that they are assholes if they forget that some people live in countries where english is not the mother tongue, and where kids don’t even learn english at school.