Colonel Posted December 1, 2006 Share Posted December 1, 2006 Parallels has released a new beta, build 3036, that sports a heap of long awaited features that have been highly requested. Some of these features include booting from, reading, and writing to Boot Camp partitions as well something called Coherency. Coherency is an awesome new feature that allows you to run your Windows applications from Parallels, right on top of Mac OS X. Tim Sugent from the Parallels Forum provides us with more details on the update: New Look and Feel and Improved Usability. Completely redesigned windows and dialogues to make them even easier and smooth. Too many changes to describe – just check them out yourselves Virtual Machines Catalogue. A very useful feature for those having more than one VM – now all of them are available through centralized VM catalogue which appears on each Parallels Desktop for Mac instance start in case you have more than one VM One-click Virtual Machine Aliases: Automatically created by OS installation assistant or by drag-and-drop from title bar pressing Command-Option keys combination Clicking on Alias automatically starts the Virtual Machine Shutting down the VM automatically closes Parallels Desktop for Mac application Resizeable Main Window. Resize Parallels Desktop for Mac main window as you do with any other Mac application Auto-Adjusting Screen Resolution. Your Windows auto-adjusts the screen resolution to the actual Main Window size. Drag and Drop files and folders between Windows and Mac. A long awaited feature that lets you seamlessly drag and drop files and folders from Windows to Mac OS X and vice versa. Read/Write BootCamp partition. Since this build, an Apple Boot Camp partition with Windows XP installed could be used as a virtual HDD for Parallels Desktop for Mac. Boot from BootCamp partition. Another long awaited feature that lets you boot your 32-bit Windows XP residing on Boot Camp partition directly in Parallels Desktop for Mac.IMPORTANT! You need to boot in your Windows XP natively through Boot Camp and install Parallels Tools for Boot Camp package in it before your first boot in Parallels Desktop for Mac.NOTE! It is not possible to suspend Virtual Machine connected to Boot Camp for integrity reasons. Parallels Transporter Beta bundled. Migrate your Windows PC, VMware or Virtual PC VMs to Parallels virtual machines. Coherency. Shows Windows applications as if they were Mac ones. Try it and enjoy best of both worlds truly at the same time. No more switching between Windows to Mac OS. Improved graphic performance. Up to 50% on different applications. Connect/disconnect USB devices schema improved. No more "wait 5-10 seconds" message on USB device connecting to Parallels Desktop for Mac. Up to 5 Virtual NICs. Now Virtual Machine can have up to five virtual network interfaces. Enhanced Shared Networking Mode. Run Cisco VPN and many other complicated networking applications in conjunction with Connection Sharing Mode. Switch between networking modes on-the-fly. Switch networking modes while the virtual machine is running. Transparent mapping of Command-AZXCV key combinations. Now you can also use Mac copy/paste key combinations in Windows. Power On/Power Off/Suspend/Resume/Pause animation. Just try and see. We're very interested in your feedback about the feature. Shared folders configuration on-the-fly. Add/remove/configure shared folders on-the-fly via menu or Status Bar icon without the need to stop your Virtual Machine. Drag and Drop CD/FDD images and folders to the Parallels Desktop status bar. Just drag and drop CD or floppy image you want to connect or Mac folder you want to share onto a respective statusbar icon. And dozens of other not that evident enhancements. The new beta is available from this direct download from parallels. Parallels has made what was once thought impossible, possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
other Posted December 2, 2006 Share Posted December 2, 2006 I use parallels all the time and this is a long awaited update with many great features Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenman100 Posted December 2, 2006 Share Posted December 2, 2006 Parallels has made what was once thought impossible, possible. So true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swad Posted December 2, 2006 Share Posted December 2, 2006 This is great news. Thanks, colonels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kuruu Posted December 2, 2006 Share Posted December 2, 2006 i'm about to install vista on a drive to see if it works, but has anyone tried the boot from a 'bootcamp' partition feature feature on a hackintosh? will inform of the results! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted December 2, 2006 Author Share Posted December 2, 2006 This is great news. Thanks, colonels. No problem. I'm always happy to post the news. Here's a screenshot of IE 7 and WMP 11 running in Coherency. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenman100 Posted December 2, 2006 Share Posted December 2, 2006 i'm about to install vista on a drive to see if it works, but has anyone tried the boot from a 'bootcamp' partition feature feature on a hackintosh? will inform of the results! it appears greyed out for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
other Posted December 2, 2006 Share Posted December 2, 2006 I can't boot XP from my bootcamp drive :/ Comes up saying it cannot boot from bootcamp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenman100 Posted December 2, 2006 Share Posted December 2, 2006 I can't boot XP from my bootcamp drive :/Comes up saying it cannot boot from bootcamp. can't boot FAT32, you can convert to NTFS, google Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milesce Posted December 2, 2006 Share Posted December 2, 2006 Not to gush too much, but this is just about the coolest things I've seen in a while. I run parallels all day with SQL Server Enterprise Manager open, among other windows only network admin tools, and now they fit right in with the rest of my setup. Wow. This absolutely blows VMWare out of the water. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brad-x Posted December 2, 2006 Share Posted December 2, 2006 Guys, this is one of the most impressive additions to a virtual machine I've ever seen. A while back I blogged about the possibility of a Windows based VM accomplishing the same thing for OS X/Intel as Classic did for the OS X on the Power Mac - a way to seamlessly run legacy applications (be they for MacOS 9 or for Windows) on the new Mac operating system. I'm floored. You guys rule. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenman100 Posted December 2, 2006 Share Posted December 2, 2006 it appears greyed out for me. anyone on a hackintosh get parallels to boot the same image in OS X and native? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suleiman Posted December 2, 2006 Share Posted December 2, 2006 The speed difference is remarkable really. These guys have really made strides with this latest release. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macmaniac Posted December 2, 2006 Share Posted December 2, 2006 I agree. This latest release is very nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzuka Posted December 2, 2006 Share Posted December 2, 2006 Ahh, the new layout seems to freeze, before you run the vm and when I try to open the preference window :/ I cant even figure out coherency , so for me, runs like sh*t, on a real mac Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobNyc Posted December 2, 2006 Share Posted December 2, 2006 i dont have bootcamp but u know hackintosh can we boot our windows partition ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ConMan Posted December 2, 2006 Share Posted December 2, 2006 Cool. I like it--this is a nice upgrade. I'm currently using the Boot Camp option, and it's telling me that my hardware has changed significantly so I need to reactivate windows. Of course, it doesn't let me do this because I already activated it when I installed it via Boot Camp. Any suggestions, other than calling Microsoft? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaS Posted December 2, 2006 Share Posted December 2, 2006 Anyone want to tell me the trick to get coherency to obay me and work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kuruu Posted December 2, 2006 Share Posted December 2, 2006 hmmm, my last post didn't post? or was it over-zealously moderated? can't boot off physical drive, even with tools installed... will try boot camp later, see if it will work on a hackintosh... and i can't use conherence for some reason, with a vista image. loading a vista one now to see what's what... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technobob Posted December 2, 2006 Share Posted December 2, 2006 Coherency is ever so sweet I won't be needing Virtue Desktops anymore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ConMan Posted December 2, 2006 Share Posted December 2, 2006 I'm having so much fun using this software! I'm so glad I live now, when all these exciting things are happening. This is the best thing since the Mac OS!! I have to agree, I probably won't need Virtue Desktops anymore either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mifki Posted December 2, 2006 Share Posted December 2, 2006 I'm so glad I live now Man your life must suck real bad, how depressing lol Nah Jokes, yeah its a good software havent installed yet tho Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
velayo Posted December 2, 2006 Share Posted December 2, 2006 It's impressive how much faster this version is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saschke Posted December 2, 2006 Share Posted December 2, 2006 Anyone want to tell me the trick to get coherency to obay me and work you gotta install the parallels tools in the VM... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sev7en Posted December 2, 2006 Share Posted December 2, 2006 Awesome new set of features! I'm just installing it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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