I have a Coherence question

Discussion in 'Parallels Desktop for Mac' started by Stevamundo, Dec 18, 2006.

  1. Stevamundo

    Stevamundo Pro

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    As some of you know that I won't touch betas anymore. So I only know what Coherence is by reading this forum. To me it is a mode that allows you to run Windows programs directly on you OSX. Is that right?

    If I'm right here's my question. When I'm in the Coherence mode, can I burn Windows programs to CDs using my OSX without corrupting these Windows programs?

    Probably not, because the Coherence mode is still a part of Parallels and Parallels doesn't have burning capability yet, right?

    I thought I ask anyway.
     
  2. Atomic_Fusion

    Atomic_Fusion Hunter

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    I'm afraid I don't understand your question, nor do I think anybody else does either. Can you be more specific with what you're wanting to do?
     
  3. joem

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    Since your initial assumption is incorrect, the answer is, as you seem to have suspected, no.

    Windows programs do not and probably never will run directly under OSX. there have been some shims written that attempt to provide a wrapper that will translate Windows OS calls to OSX, but they seem not to be very robust at this time, and apparently have to be tweaked for each program they support. Coherence is a video trick, and the program is still running on the VM.

    Burning capability will come with USP passthrough. In the meantime, I burn lots of disks in OSX. The native support is good, and toast is better. (IMO)
     
  4. bobbyt

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    Coherence mode is simply a trick that cuts the desktop out around the edges of windows. This allows you to click on mac windows through where the windows desktop would normally be covered in a parallels window...

    Asside from that it's still the same Windows Virtual Machine running in the same virtual machine engine... Coherence mode hasn't changed that what-so-ever...
     
  5. Stevamundo

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    Thank you. I figured as much.
     

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