The Parallels team today issued Release Candidate 3 of Parallels Desktop, their virtualization software that we've mentioned once or twice. While their announcement blog post only touts two major new features (the ability to seamlessly upgrade a WinXP VM to Vista & a more secure file sharing process between OSes), the beta testing page has quite a bit more to say. A lot of features have been enhanced in RC3, such as better Boot Camp support, ever-enhanced USB support and a new Transporter bundle, but one hidden gem is of particular interest: Parallels Desktop is now ready for the upcoming Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. To be clear: this doesn't mean you can virtualize Leopard in Parallels Desktop - you can run Parallels Desktop on a Leopard machine.Head on over to the beta page for all the details and to grab a copy of the new release.
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2-16-2007 @ 12:06AM
tc said...
3d graphics supprt?????? When!
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2-16-2007 @ 12:27AM
i dont know the time said...
tomorrow.
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2-16-2007 @ 4:20AM
John Fredrickson said...
Hehe, as if somebody would want to run Leopard in Parallels on Tiger :)
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2-16-2007 @ 6:00AM
thirdprophet said...
I'd been putting off keeping up with my Release Candidates on Parallels, but having seen this post late at night with nothing better left to do (slow day and a slow night, which I'm thankful for, really), I decided to go ahead and give RC3 a spin.
I don't know if the changes between RC2 and RC3 are so noticeable, but I can tell you that the gap between RC1 and RC3 are _tremendous_. First of all, it runs a whole load smoother on my machine (Macbook) and integrates like a dream with Mac OS X. The previous versions of Parallels that I ran bogged down my Mac so badly that I usually opted to boot into WinXP (through BootCamp) to get full-speed access to the functions I needed.
Speaking of which... BootCamp partition integration. I was wondering why it wasn't there, and now it is; and it works like a charm. It's beautiful, it's simple, I don't have to keep two installations of Windows XP on my machine taking up space, I don't have to install software again and again on different partitions to do what I need to do. Coherence mode is just stunning and possibly now the most useful thing there is to have. I can literally compare webpages in pretty much all the browsers I need to test on, amongst many other things.
In short... I continue to be more than satisfied with the money I spent, everything works as perfect as I could wish it to. In the words of the late great Buddha, 'zomg its teh best lolol'.
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2-16-2007 @ 10:21AM
Michael Rose said...
Thanks for the feedback 3rdProphet!
3D acceleration for Parallels is projected for next major release, not this current round of changes.
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2-16-2007 @ 1:57PM
Graham Fluet said...
VMware has 3D acceleration, not sure about anything else.
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2-16-2007 @ 5:48PM
lM ll lL lL S said...
OSX 10.5 Ready? do they know something we don't? Do they have secret copies of the new OS?? Do they know secret features?? ....
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2-16-2007 @ 6:43PM
Word Diggity said...
BootCamp support? So I can just install Windows in a BC partition and then use it with Parallels so I don't have to boot into Windows when I want to, say, rip a CD with EAC? This in combination with the Convergence feature would make me a happy camper.
And this is the point where I learn it's been able to do this for a while. :)
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