Parallels Beta Adds Boot Camp, Desktop 244
Verunks writes "Parallels has released a new beta of its virtualization product for Mac OS X. This new release includes one major new feature, something Parallels calls 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." Check out this Screenshot"
More interesting to me is the Boot Camp support so you can have a single partition to run IE7 in Parallels to test compatibility of a website but reboot to play video games that need a little more juice.
Re:Incidentally... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Parallels Vs. VMWare (Score:5, Informative)
It's *BETA* for a Reason (Score:5, Informative)
Re:I Should Write Native Mac Apps...Why? (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Incidentally... (Score:5, Informative)
The beta is far from complete, I just tried it on my boot camp partition and the mouse/keyboard were unresponsive. (Even after installing the given tools)
Moreover each time you switch between parallels and boot camp Windows is deactivated Thus I have to go through the reactivation procedure each time !!! i've done this about three times already and I'm afraid it'll just stop allowing me to reactivate it (even though it's a legitimate license)
Re:Parallels Vs. VMWare (Score:2, Informative)
> which makes it tricky to load anything other than MacOS.
http://elilo.sourceforge.net/ [sourceforge.net]
Re:GPU access (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Slowdowns? (Score:3, Informative)
But on an Intel Mac none of this is an issue, since the Windows app and a mac one run on exactly the same instruction set. Of course, the API the applications use will be completely different. Virtualisation is about running two kernels simultaneously on the same hardware. Now this is tricky, because OS kernels want to be in sole control of the hardware. The x86 isn't completely self virtualisable, i.e. you can't trap and emulate all the instructions you need to fool the kernel, so you go back to profiling and translating, at least for kernel mode code. Or you can trap many more instructions than you need to. But recent intel chips have a technology called VT which plugs the holes and allows self virtualisation.
So you can run the guest kernel code at full speed, and trap and emulate just enough to keep the guest OS under control of the hypervisor.
Re:Parallels Vs. VMWare (Score:5, Informative)
~Philly
Re:Incidentally... (Score:4, Informative)
This is the default with Wine... and I believe it's also the way crossover office works. You have to go in and specify that you want a "desktop" to get one. Also... the window borders with wine are actually drawn using your window manager in linux... so you don't even get the ugly XP titlebar and stuff.
So what "feature" is it that is missing from Wine that you see here?
Friedmud
Re:I Should Write Native Mac Apps...Why? (Score:1, Informative)
Control, not command (Score:3, Informative)
And once you get use to it, you realize that chording is far better than hacking a second button onto a laptop - your hand is always resting by the key anyway, and it makes for a much larger mouse button target to hit with no confusion.
Re:Windows is the new Classic (Score:3, Informative)
They seem quite concerned about virtualisation but are going for the high taxation approach to keeping it from becoming significant.
That could be Parallels biggest problem over the next few years. A $399 Windows license + $80 + extra RAM (recommended) for Parallels is a lot for someone who doesn't absolutely need it. Might be cheaper to buy a separate Windows desktop/laptop if you need Windows that badly.
It's still a great product but it will be a much smaller niche at those prices. Using Bootcamp you just buy the cheapest Vista license if you can get away with it.
Re:Really good for Parallels (Score:4, Informative)
Re:updates (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Windows is the new Classic (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Parallels Vs. VMWare (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Wine, CrossOver, and VMs (Score:4, Informative)
http://www.oxygenxml.com/ [oxygenxml.com]
fast enough for things like CAD though? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Check out Oxygen, its a cross platform XML edit (Score:3, Informative)
http://www.thaiopensource.com/nxml-mode/ [thaiopensource.com]
Re:Incidentally... (Score:3, Informative)
Another difference (Score:2, Informative)
This strategy was given up in later versions. Warp Connect and OS/2 v4 both shipped only in the full pack flavor. But by this time, Windows 95 was also out and most people were only interested in 32 bit Windows applications which wouldn't run on any flavor of OS/2.
In either case, the problem with attracting developers was most likely much larger a function of the lack of click and drool development tools. IBM's Visual Age ran like a cow compared to Microsoft's Visual Studio and I don't think any other vendor was really in the visual space at the time. (This was the bad old days of Borland's 5.x compiler that sucked canal water for building GUI apps.) Then the nail in the coffin (developer-wise) were the changes to the OS/2 v4 APIs where some API calls that were somewhat common in v2 and v3 would either trigger kill the synchronos input queue (no more keyboard or mouse) or even trigger a seg fault in the kernel. IMO, IBM ought to have shipped the EMX version of GCC with every version of OS/2. If they had done that and supported XFree86 for OS/2, they might have had a chance. On the other hand, though, disk space wasn't nearly as cheap back then. But if they had done that, OS/2 would have gotten the attention of quite a few *nix programmers.