Swad Posted September 7, 2006 Share Posted September 7, 2006 Still looking for a little cross-platform love? The new Update Release Candidate of Parallels might just suit your fancy, adding support for up to 3.5 gigs of RAM on the Mac Pro as well as Leopard (as in "works on" not "make a virtual machine of") and Vista compatibility. Highlights from the changelog: Support for new quad-processor Mac Pro towers outfitted with up to 3.5GB of RAM This addition means that Parallels Desktop for Mac is now compatible with all Intel-powered Apple computers, which in addition to the Mac Pro includes the MacBook, MacBook Pro, iMac, and Mac Mini! Compatibility with developer build of Mac OS X 10.5, code-named “Leopard” Experimental support for Windows Vista An improved Parallels Tools package Better video output improvement and acceleration Added multi interface USB devices support (including Windows Mobile 2005 devices) Added isochronous USB devices support (including WebCam devices) Minor USB fixes Keyboard support improvement: Eject CD key support, left/right Shift/Ctrl/Alt (Option)/Windows keys difference support Added virtual disk cache policy option: Mac OS X performance optimized or guest OS performance optimized Optimized disk cache policy for Suspend/Resume feature Minor GUI fixes and improvements Now, when will we be able to run Leopard as a virtual machine? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IVK Posted September 7, 2006 Share Posted September 7, 2006 Hmm, I can't seem to get Vista running. Using RC1 (build 5600) just blue screens after I load the files. It's the same with ISO and DVD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Another User Posted September 7, 2006 Share Posted September 7, 2006 Hmm, I can't seem to get Vista running. Using RC1 (build 5600) just blue screens after I load the files. It's the same with ISO and DVD. Same here... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darwinian Dude Posted September 7, 2006 Share Posted September 7, 2006 This is the 'experimental' part of the Vista support. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted September 7, 2006 Share Posted September 7, 2006 Vista Beta 2 seems to work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EPDM Posted September 7, 2006 Share Posted September 7, 2006 Hi folks, I tested both parallels 1848 (V1 stable) to this 1884 (RC1) to this system running windows Native (dual boot) here are the results. As you can see GFX performance has been improved at the expense of CPU power. CINEBENCH 9.5 **************************************************** Tester : EPDM Processor : parallels MHz : 3000 MHz Number of CPUs : 1 Operating System : Win XP pro SP2 Graphics Card : parallels Resolution : 1280x1024 Color Depth : 32-bits **************************************************** Rendering (Single CPU): 281 CB-CPU Rendering (Multiple CPU): --- CB-CPU Shading (CINEMA 4D) : 263 CB-GFX Shading (OpenGL Software Lighting) : 175 CB-GFX Shading (OpenGL Hardware Lighting) : 125 CB-GFX OpenGL Speedup: 0.66 **************************************************** and RC 1 CINEBENCH 9.5 **************************************************** Tester : EPDM Processor : parallels RC1 MHz : 3000 Number of CPUs : 1 Operating System : win xp pro SP2 Graphics Card : x1600pro Resolution : 1280x1024 Color Depth : 32-bits **************************************************** Rendering (Single CPU): 276 CB-CPU Rendering (Multiple CPU): --- CB-CPU Shading (CINEMA 4D) : 331 CB-GFX Shading (OpenGL Software Lighting) : 215 CB-GFX Shading (OpenGL Hardware Lighting) : 141 CB-GFX OpenGL Speedup: 0.65 **************************************************** It does run as a single core non HT cpu on my system P4 630 3GHz HT Here the native figures of running Cinebench 9.5 under dual boot. CINEBENCH 9.5 **************************************************** Tester : EPDM Processor : P4 630 MHz : 3000 MHz Number of CPUs : 2 Operating System : Win XP pro SP2 Graphics Card : X1600pro Resolution : 1280x1024 Color Depth : 32-bits **************************************************** Rendering (Single CPU): 250 CB-CPU Rendering (Multiple CPU): 292 CB-CPU Multiprocessor Speedup: 1.17 Shading (CINEMA 4D) : 341 CB-GFX Shading (OpenGL Software Lighting) : 1348 CB-GFX Shading (OpenGL Hardware Lighting) : 3056 CB-GFX OpenGL Speedup: 8.96 **************************************************** A +20% increase in software OpenGL is not that bad after a few months works. Even without this the guys at parallels inc. did a terific job. Well done guys. Regards, EPDM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swad Posted September 7, 2006 Author Share Posted September 7, 2006 Thanks for the benchmarks! Very interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Takuro Posted September 8, 2006 Share Posted September 8, 2006 This is a dumb question, but I know somebody else is bound to ask it eventually, so I'll get it over with: Does this open the possibility of running Leopard via Parallels on a non-Apple PC? Even though I'm sure it doesn't, it still seems to have tons of improvements to make it well worth the download. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swad Posted September 8, 2006 Author Share Posted September 8, 2006 Nope - sadly, no Leopard virtual machines allowed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martin1976 Posted September 8, 2006 Share Posted September 8, 2006 Good stuff. Unfortunately I could not find drivers either for my video nor my network... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Korrupted Posted September 8, 2006 Share Posted September 8, 2006 Another dumb question: Has anyone tried OSX86 in it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EPDM Posted September 8, 2006 Share Posted September 8, 2006 I tried installing Ubuntu and that didn't work. I also tried running the sheepshaver inside and also gave problems. And since I'm a big fan of Acorn computers, I obviously tried both Red Squirel (RISC OS 4.01 freeware) and Virtual A5000 (RISC OS 3 commercial product) on it too. Red Squirel doesn't work but Virtual A5000 does (kina) work in full screen. Though VA5000 does act strange on parallels. Eg. it messes up screen resolutions so that returning from fullscreen to windowed mode acts weird. This behaviour only happened with former beta-version of Parallels and not on the release 1848. I haven't tried VA5000 in RC v1884 though. I did notice that sometimes when quiting v1884 after a few seconds many windows pop-up as if mouse clicks and movement gets recorded and triggered after quiting parallels in slow motion. Very weird. I'll try VA5000 later on. Regards, EPDM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
errandwolfe Posted September 8, 2006 Share Posted September 8, 2006 Another dumb question: Has anyone tried OSX86 in it? If you mean the new version of Parallels, yes and it runs a bit quicker then the last. If you mean Vista you will have to ask someone else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Korrupted Posted September 8, 2006 Share Posted September 8, 2006 Quoted the wrong person? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skredii Posted September 10, 2006 Share Posted September 10, 2006 Another dumb question: Has anyone tried OSX86 in it? Hey Dax, I'm running Parallels under hackint0sh (OSX86). Thus what you mean is running hackint0sh inside Parallels installed on a hackint0sh I could give a try but what's the point? I'm tryin to run Vista RC1 install in Parallels RC1 under hackint0sh and I'm getting this error: File: /windows.system32/boot/winload.exe Status: 0xc00000035a Info: Attempting to load a 64-bit application, however this CPU is not compatible with 64-bit mode. That's strange cause I'm running a Pentium D 805 (Dual Core) and I doubt it's not 64-bit compatible :-) Any ideas ? - edit : - Ok it's because I'm tryin to run the 64-bit version of Vista under Parallels which has not support for 64-bit yet. {censored} I need to get the 32 bit version ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Takuro Posted September 10, 2006 Share Posted September 10, 2006 If Parallels can run an unmodified image of 10.4 Tiger x86, then does that mean it emulates EFI? I'm just wondering because there was some speculation that VMware would do this, since they do strive to let people run ANY OS over any other OS (which means making it possible to run a legal, virtualized install of Tiger or Leopard.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skredii Posted September 11, 2006 Share Posted September 11, 2006 Just tried to install the Vista RC1 32 bit version in Parallels, no luck: Any ideas? - edit: - From the Parallels forum, I learned that Vista RC1 does not run on Parallels RC1 but they say it should run on the final release. In fact, it is already running in Parallels labs, it's not yet released. Let's hope they do a RC2, which they should in my opinion as Vista RC1 has changed something in ACPI from the Beta2 release. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
troisd Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 If Parallels can run an unmodified image of 10.4 Tiger x86, then does that mean it emulates EFI? I'm just wondering because there was some speculation that VMware would do this, since they do strive to let people run ANY OS over any other OS (which means making it possible to run a legal, virtualized install of Tiger or Leopard.) Whoa! hold on to your horses. VMware is going to support EFI emulation, but in order to run an unmodified Tiger DVD, it would also have to emulate a TPM module and be blessed with Apple's decryption key. What VMware will allow us to do is to understand better EFI-OSX dynamics and perhaps boost the EFI emulation layer by XDev people. This will allow a big step towards using 10.4.5+ kernels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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