I had high hopes for bootcamp integration, which is why I jumped on the beta. Unfortunately, I had the FAT32 problems that others have run into and was unsuccessful at getting it to work. I was hoping that the bootcamp partition integration would allow me to utilize my bootcamp partition at full speed; accessing it through the sharing interface feels about 10x slower than parallels simulated partition access. There were a few glitches with the transition (like having to reset the screen bit depth/dimensions), but overall nothing major. I think i ran into a potential 'gotcha' that might exist in 1970: choose keyboard/trackpad from the USB menu. I did not try to re-verify the behavior of this, because when i did it the first time, it essentially disabled my keyboard/mouse so that I had to reboot (I chose this from the menu bar and parallels did not have focus). The main reason I reverted to 1970 was that I had to reboot os x a couple time while parallels was running. For whatever reason, 3036 doesn't seem to have the 'force open' option for VMs. There were a couple of reboots where parallels seemed to figure out that the VM was just improperly closed. But this last time, every way (double clicking on the vm file, open from the initial dlg, and open from the choose... dlg) i tried to open the vm failed with the 'in use' error. Luckily, reverting back to 1970 wasn't too painful. Only 'trick' is that I had to boot xp in safe mode to reinstall the parallels tools because otherwise, it just sat at black screen after the initial logo screen. Coherence was very cool. Hope you guys iron out the bugs soon. It'd be nice to finally get some usage out of my bootcamp partition! (I keep it around for games....)
