Use VMWare virtual appliances with Parallels

by Scott McNulty (Nov 29th 2006 8:00AM)

We know that VMWare's Mac client, Fusion, is in private beta at the moment but if you want to use one of the coolest things about VMWare now, you can. Virtualization Daily shows us how to use a VMWare virtual appliance (basically a virtualized machin...

New Parallels build features return of Image Tool

by Michael Rose (Jul 17th 2007 5:00PM)

It was just a couple of hours ago that reader Greg wrote in to share his frustration with Parallels tech support, or the lack thereof, and a key missing feature in v3 -- "The members of their support forum are generally as confused as I am... [also] ...

Parallels makes switching to Mac easier than ever

by Brett Terpstra (Aug 25th 2009 10:00AM)

What's that whooshing sound? It's the collective sigh of relief from all of the Mac-lovers who've been wrangled into providing unofficial tech support for friends and family switching to Mac. Parallels today announced their latest offering, Parallels...

Bertrand Serlet joins Parallels board of directors

by Steven Sande (Jul 17th 2012 12:37PM)

This just in... Parallels, the company behind the popular Parallels Desktop virtualization software for Mac OS X, announced that Bertrand Serlet has been appointed to the company's board of directors. Serlet was the senior vice president of soft...

Parallels beta updated for better Leopard compatibility

by Michael Rose (Nov 26th 2007 11:30AM)

The release build of Parallels Desktop 3 still isn't quite Leopard-happy, but that's not cause for abject despair: the second beta since 10.5 came out was released on Saturday, with enhanced support for Leopard, improved migration tools for Boot Camp...

Parallels Workstation 2.1 Beta5

by Scott McNulty (Apr 26th 2006 11:00AM)

Thorn lets us know, in the comments to the fast OS switching post, that the folks at Parallels have released Beta 5 of their Parallels Workstation 2.1 for Intel Macs. This is the software that lets you run 'virtual' machines on your Intel Macs (inclu...

Parallels Desktop 6 appears on store shelves

by Michael Rose (Sep 5th 2010 10:30AM)

No official announcement from the virtualization mavens at Parallels, but it appears that the next version of the company's Mac app for Windows virtual machines is already popping up at retail. Sharp-eyed reader Matthew Fern snapped this shot of P...

Parallels now supports Mac Pro, Leopard, and Vista

by Scott McNulty (Sep 7th 2006 2:30PM)

I was just talking to someone about how neat it would be if I could install the latest Vista built in Parallels, he agreed and hoped that his Mac Pro would soon be able to run Parallels in 64 bit mode soon (he has it hacked to run in 32 bit mode at t...

Parallels Desktop for Mac Release Candidate 3

by David Chartier (Feb 15th 2007 10:45PM)

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 WinX...

Discover Mac desktops in Microsoft SCCM with Parallels Management

by Michael Rose (Jan 31st 2013 8:11AM)

Along with its presence here at Macworld/iWorld and MacIT this week, virtualization heavyweight Parallels has a new offering to help big businesses and other large-scale enterprises wrangle their growing (and sometimes unpredictable) Mac populat...

Parallels webcast today launches Virtuozzo Containers server

by Michael Rose (Jan 31st 2008 10:00AM)

Despite the publicity around Parallels' flagship Mac product, Parallels Desktop (which we've contributed to in some small part), there are some other interesting tools in the stable of Parallels' parent company, SWsoft -- which is now being rebranded...

Parallels Desktop 7 gets the Retina Display treatment

by Mike Schramm (Jul 11th 2012 8:30PM)

Parallels has announced that its popular virtualization software is ready for the Retina Display MacBook Pro. Parallels Mobile was updated for iOS device Retina Displays earlier this year. The desktop software has now followed suit and is ready ...

WWDC Live: Serguei Beloussov, Parallels CEO

by Brett Terpstra (Jun 16th 2009 10:00PM)

Serguei Beloussov, CEO of Parallels, was gracious enough to sit down with us to talk about his take on the Keynote, WWDC in general and some enhancements which were announced at the Parallels shindig at Jillian's. The acoustics in the room were very ...

Move your Boot Camp install of Windows to Parallels

by Scott McNulty (Jul 18th 2006 1:30PM)

Boot Camp and Parallels: two very different ways to run Windows on your Mac and never the twain shall meet, right? Not so fast, there is a way to migrate your Windows install from a Boot Camp install (or for that matter ANY Windows install whether it...

MacTech benchmarks Parallels and VMware Fusion

by Mike Schramm (Nov 2nd 2011 1:15PM)

The 2011 MacTech Conference starts up here in Los Angeles today, and TUAW will have reports and interviews live from the conference all week. Before things begin, however, MacTech has been busy benchmarking (as usual). Its latest benchmarking sh...