Swad Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 Parallels released a new beta today with better support for USB devices and, can you believe it, all the keys on the keyboard! This beta has absolutely nothing - and we mean nothing - to do with the yesterday's announcement of VMware for Mac. They're also working on some great features for future editions of their virtualization software. In what sounds deceptively like an interview with one of Santa's reindeer, MacWorld enlightens us thusly: Rudolph also pointed to further improvements in Parallels Desktop for Mac, including what’s described as “a groundbreaking new user interface that will make running Windows on a Mac easier and more productive than ever before;” new security and management tools; the ability to burn CDs and DVDs inside virtual machines and a new Server for Mac OS X product. What’s more, Parallels Desktop for Mac will see “fast 3D graphics support,” presumably to help cater to gamers who want to run Windows games without having to reboot their machine using Boot Camp and a separate Windows partition. Also planned is support for Microsoft’s forthcoming Windows Vista, the major update to Windows Microsoft has planned for the first calendar quarter of 2007. Begun, the VM wars have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavemonkey50 Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 Does anyone know if the new version makes this tweak obsolete: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?sto...060622090404212 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavemonkey50 Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 I have answered my own question. PD Tweaker is no longer needed as long as you update the VM settings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 So if Parallels will support 3D graphics and Windows Vista, does this mean that we will be able to get Aero inside Parallels? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacApprentice Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 OMFG!! 3D support would be the best! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Hurt Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 I don't think we will be able to run vista in virtualization because of its extreme requirements. It need at least 512MB of RAM and 1GB is recommended. most of us have 512 and if we assign all of them to vista the whole system will crash. If you use less, vista wouldn't even install. This is possible for people who have 1 or 2 GB of RAM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackice Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 they need physical disk support, then I'll consider parallels Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sev7en Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 OMFG!! 3D support would be the best! Right As Apple says "Hasta la Vista... Vista" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSXtasy Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 2 gigs here, bring it on! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandmanfvrga Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 Hmm, I tried parallels but couldn't get it to boot the xp cd and I read on the forum that the main hard drive and cd/dvd need to be on the same ide channel. I got 2 hdds, and 2 optical drives. Is this fixed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donniedarko Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 i'm installing xp via parallels right now got my disk on the same ide chan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donniedarko Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 can't install gma 900 any idea ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Takuro Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 If anybody manages to max out their Mac Pro with 16gb of ram, I'm sure Vista will run faster in virtualization than it would on most PCs natively. I wonder if the Mac version of VMware will implement a way to use one of the dual Xeons as a dedicated CPU for the virtualized machine. That would be insanely fast! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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