Found Footage: Fast OS switching on an Intel Mac

Has anyone succeeded in forcing xorg.conf to allow for the MacBooks native 1440x900 resolution, thus allowing fullscreen mode of Fedora 5 (or any other mainstream linux distro, that is) using Parallels? I've managed to get it to run 1440x900 in windowed mode, but as soon as I push the full-screen button, it blacks out, and the entire Workstation instance dies on me. Needless to say, it does not work wonders on the integrity of Fedoras file system...:)

While the pace is indeed excellent (keep up the good work parallels!), remember this is a Mac OS port of an already completed product, they are not writing a new application this fast! :)

Thom,

I agree. The pace of development for Parallels for OS X is mind boggling. It makes me wonder how many programmers they have working on it.

Nice. Beta 5 for Parallels just came out. How are they able to pump this stuff out so quickly when it takes other companies MONTHS to do anything?

Improvements and Fixes in Beta5:

* Introduced USB support. Connect your favorite USB devices directly to a virtual machine! Learn more about USB Support...
* Introduced shared folders. Share files between Mac OS X and any Windows XP or Windows 2003 guest virtual machine! Learn more about Shared Folders Support...
* Support for dynamic screen resolutions. When a guest OS is selected, a list of available screen resolutions is dynamically populated with primary OS resolutions.
* Fixed keyboard mapping problems
* Fixed mouse pointer lag problem
* Better sound support
* Fixed problems with sleeping/waking up the primary OS when a VM is running
* Introduced the ability to resize a guest when switching to fullscreen mode
* Added optional "transition cube" animation for transitioning to and from fullscreen mode
* Fixed several kernel panics
* Added default network adapter for bridged mode
* Sound lag fixed

ALX,

If you want to play games, you're going to have to use Boot Camp to dual-boot. Parallels rocks in pretty much every area *except* video for gaming.

That's what Boot Camp should be!! W00T!

Nice, very nice. If you post some benchmarks (3D would be awesome) on say CounterStrike in a virtualized XP so we could compare, that would be extremely useful.

Oh my god! Does it work normal? No bugs? How about speed? I hope it won't drop down significantly

Does anyone know if its better to use BootCamp or Parallels if you want to do some WindowsXP gaming? This looks awesome and i'd love to be able to switch super easy like that but i want to have a setup that'll have the best performance for games on XP on my Macbook.

Maybe Apple should include some form of this in panther as an addition to bootcamp... like logging in to different machines, but also fast user switching? who knows. Definitely looks awesome tho.