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Beta Beat: VM2Go Utility for Parallels Desktop for Mac
Parallels user Mark (aka) Clalron has whipped up a nifty little utility called VM2Go and he just released it as beta in the Parallels forums. The app provides a list of all the virtual machines on your Mac, shows their actual disk space usage, allows VMs to be transferred to iPods or external drives, allows you to backup your VM to CD or DVD and restore it from CD or DVD as well.
Although I haven't had a chance to try it yet since I won't be on a Mac that has Parallels on it until later today, but it sounds like it will be quite useful! If any of you get a chance to try it out, please let us know your thoughts - and be sure to also send feedback and bug reports to the developer also so he can improve upon future releases.
The user guide and mac.com download link location are temporary, as is the icon - which is a good thing because the icon currently looks like the Transmit icon with a bad case of food poisoning.
More info and the download link can be found in the Parallels support forums.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Joshua Ochs said 12:35PM on 11-27-2006
Not quite sure what the point is, since a Parallels machine is made up of only two files - the VM settings and the virtual drive. Not terribly hard to copy.
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MarkM said 1:02PM on 11-27-2006
Here are a couple of points:
- If you have more than one virtual machine with more than one virtual drive it can be a bit complicated to know which files belong to which virtual machines--especially if you use the express install option with Parallels where you do not have control of the name of the virtual hard disk.
- If you want to use a virtual machine on another system that doesn't have the same paths as you specified for your virtual hard drives on the target machine--VM2Go solves that without you having to edit the machine configuration.
- Since Parallels puts its files into a folder that most users don't venture it seems handy to be able to have a utility find the parts and pieces and move them to useful places should you want to.
- Not everyone who uses Parallels are master users of the machine. Utilities make things easier for folks so they have to know less.
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Leonard Nimrod said 3:34PM on 11-27-2006
Nice!
Also, you gotta love when Mac programmers add the Applications Folder shortcut to the DMG.
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Ed said 6:16PM on 11-27-2006
Indeed. Firefox annoys me because they put a picture of the applications folder, but it isn't actually a shortcut!
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