Hello, I recently installed Parallels on my MacBook. To start with, I decided to see how it runs Linux. So I downloaded Ubuntu. I use Mandriva on my PC, but I decided to try Ubuntu this time. And I had lot's of problems. The screen would be impossible to read on the startup, it doesn't shutdown correctly, I couldn't make the network work in anyway =( And I tryed both versions 7.04 and 6.10 This basically remembered me from the horrible experiences I had with other virtual machines in the past, like the PearPC emulator. At this moment I already thougth: ok, thank god there is a trial, or I would waste money. So, I decided to try installing Windows without much hopes it would be any better. And I was absolutely astonished that it worked so wonderfully well!!! The mouse moves between Windows and Mac OS X seamlessly!!! The install was fully automated, so I could do other things on my MacBook while it is processed. The network was automatically configured. I can easely exchange files between the windows hd and mac =))) Even much better. I have a Phone whose cable never worked well with my PC notebook. On my MacBook parallels recognized the cable automatically and it worked perfectly!! I finally got those photos out of the Phone =))) Only for that buying Parallels was alrady worth it, and I completed the payment today very happy. So, basically my overall experience was extremely good with Windows, but quite bad with Linux. If there is something that would make me buy an upgrade to the next major version, that would be better Linux support, so this is my wish =) One or two things could be improved on the Windows support (namely resizing the HD after you created it, and video card overlays support with DirectX). But it's overall so good that I don't care if I need to live without those. While the Linux support still needs a lot of work. thanks,
sekelsenmat, Thank you very much for valuable feedback! Which version of Parallels Desktop do you use? In Parallels Desktop 3.0 we have Linux guest tools which will give you seamless mouse integration and resizable VM window. Could you please summarize (point by point) which Linux expirience you don't like in Parallels Desktop. It will help us to make future versions better.
