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New Parallels Beta Build 3036 Released

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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.

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Mr.Sticky

Ok, i'm not too familiar with Bootcamp so could be doing this wrong. But i've tried formatting another disk using GUID and resorting a copy of windows on it. Parallels wont boot it though.

I noticed there's a 200 meg 'guid partition' ahead of my new windows one, does something need to install on there?

Thanks,

IAN

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John the Geek
Ok, i'm not too familiar with Bootcamp so could be doing this wrong. But i've tried formatting another disk using GUID and resorting a copy of windows on it. Parallels wont boot it though.

I noticed there's a 200 meg 'guid partition' ahead of my new windows one, does something need to install on there?

Thanks,

IAN

 

 

No, that's what identifies it as a Boot Camp partition. Even if you wipe an entire drive as your Windows disk (I did this yesterday on my Mac Pro) there is still a 200MB Apple EFI partition (just like a Mac boot drive) identifying the drive as a bootable drive, etc, but also using a MBR format on the main large partition and a Legacy flag enabling it to boot on the Mac.

 

I'll do an hdiutil dump today and let you know what it shows for that drive. I'm off to work to play anyway.

 

Sad that I go into work on my day off too, but I have a lot of toys to configure today.

 

=)

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EtherealRemnant
Is this installing Ubuntu or simply running a previous install? I saw mesasges on the Parallels board saying that installing with previous build, then upgrading worked.

 

The previous builds do the same thing on both XP and OS X so I can't even get a working install. It shows the Ubuntu boot screen... then when I hit enter to start the live CD, the screen goes black and the HD and CD indicators continue to flash for about a minute... but the screen was still black even after 15 minutes.

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Mr.Sticky

Ethereal, so from the sounds of it the problem is display related. Have you set a resolution in Parallels under the video options? Maybe try a standard text display resolution (um, 320x240 i think?) or 640x480. Otherwise it sounds like a video setup issue in the virtual machine.. which i doubt you can work around..

 

As for Bootcamp/GUID on a secondary drive, i havent had a chance to continue hacking away at it more, but i hold little hope.

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xtraa

Hi,

 

especially to Munky ;)

 

I found a Fix for the non-working Keyboard and Mouse issue on some Computers.

 

:P:D

 

You need:

 

- A second PC with Windows on it. Either connected to the Web, or in the same Lan.

- download dyngate and teamviewer

 

1.

Boot your Bootcamp XP native (choose Parallels Profile) and make sure you are logged in as an Admin. Install Dyngate/Teamviewer. Install as a host (=service). Set a Password and write down the ID number. Also check the Autostart option somewhere in the settings if there is one.

 

2. Reboot OS-X and boot XP in Parallels

 

3.

Install Dyngate/Teamviewer on your external PC. Enter the ID click connect, enter the password. Now you are able to remotecontrol your Parallels XP.

 

4. in parallels, click Actions > Install Parallels Tools.

 

5. use your remote PC to control the mouse in Parallels and finish the installation.

 

6. Reboot the virtual machine and everything is working now. Even the co-something mode :)

 

Cheers,

 

xtraa

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munky

cool, thanks xtraa. i'll probably use VNC (as its what i normally use...) instead. damn, why didnt i think of that?? ;)

 

thanks!

 

UPDATE: I had to disable WinXP's firewall (by disabling the service altogether), but I got it to work with just plain old VNC. i had a batchfile run on startup which displayed the VMs IP address, and tehn just VNC'd in from OS X - worked a treat, and no need for a second PC :P

 

thanks again :)

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zubi_won

I have it running in my hackintosh. It works pretty almost as well as the initial version 1875? It is not as peppy as the original one but the extra features are pretty slick. I can't wait to get CI/QE support so that will no longer be a hinderance.

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