Parallels Desktop for Mac build 3036 Beta is available for download.

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Hello community!

We are continuing our efforts for bringing you even more feature-full product and we are making our latest Parallels Desktop for Mac Beta Build 3036 early available to you. It will be one more FREE update of the currently available version.

Heres a short overview of the new features and enhancements introduced by this Beta:

* New Look and Feel and Improved Usability. Completely redesigned windows and dialogues to make them even easier and smooth. Too many changes to describe just check them out yourselves

* Virtual Machines Catalogue. A very useful feature for those having more than one VM now all of them are available through centralized VM catalogue which appears on each Parallels Desktop for Mac instance start in case you have more than one VM

* One-click Virtual Machine Aliases:
* Automatically created by OS installation assistant or by drag-and-drop from title bar pressing Command-Option keys combination
* Clicking on Alias automatically starts the Virtual Machine
* Shutting down the VM automatically closes Parallels Desktop for Mac application

* Resizable Main Window. Resize Parallels Desktop for Mac main window as you do with any other Mac application

* Auto-Adjusting Screen Resolution. Your Windows auto-adjusts the screen resolution to the actual Main Window size.

* Drag and Drop files and folders between Windows and Mac. A long awaited feature that lets you seamlessly drag and drop files and folders from Windows to Mac OS X and vice versa.

* Read/Write BootCamp partition. Since this build, an Apple Boot Camp partition with Windows XP installed could be used as a virtual HDD for Parallels Desktop for Mac.

* Boot from BootCamp partition. Another long awaited feature that lets you boot your 32-bit Windows XP residing on Boot Camp partition directly in Parallels Desktop for Mac.
IMPRORTANT! You need to boot in your Windows XP natively through Boot Camp and install Parallels Tools for Boot Camp package in it before your first boot in Parallels Desktop for Mac.
NOTE! It is not possible to suspend Virtual Machine connected to Boot Camp for integrity reasons.
NOTE! Running Boot Camp in Virtual Machine will need to reactivate your Windows XP installation.

* Parallels Transporter Beta bundled. Migrate your Windows PC, VMware or Virtual PC VMs to Parallels virtual machines. Please visit Parallels Transporter forum for details.

* Coherence. 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.

* Improved graphic performance. Up to 50% on different applications.

* Connect/disconnect USB devices schema improved. No more wait 5-10 seconds message on USB device connecting to Parallels Desktop for Mac.

* Up to 5 Virtual NICs. Now Virtual Machine can have up to five virtual network interfaces.

* Enhanced Shared Networking Mode. Run Cisco VPN and many other complicated networking applications in conjunction with Connection Sharing Mode.

* Switch between networking modes on-the-fly. Switch networking modes while the virtual machine is running.

* Transparent mapping of Command-AZXCV key combinations. Now you can also use Mac copy/paste key combinations in Windows.

* Power On/Power Off/Suspend/Resume/Pause animation. Just try and see. :) Were very interested in your feedback about the feature.

* Shared folders configuration on-the-fly. Add/remove/configure shared folders on-the-fly via menu or Status Bar icon without the need to stop your Virtual Machine.

* Drag and Drop CD/FDD images and folders to the Parallels Desktop statusbar. Just drag and drop CD or floppy image you want to connect or Mac folder you want to share onto a respective statusbar icon.

* And dozens of other not that evident enhancements.

Just download Parallels Desktop for Mac Beta Build 3036 to have them all available on your Mac! It will be a FREE update once it becomes Generally Available.
IMPORTANT! Resume and shut down all suspended Virtual Machines prior to upgrade.

Please remember that this is beta software, and like any other beta software you should treat it very carefully. Do not install this Beta into the production environment yet. Do backup your virtual machines before starting them.

If, for any reason, you would like to downgrade to previous stable build, use this link to get it.
IMPORTANT! Uninstall Parallels Tools from the guest OS prior to downgrading and install them again after finishing the downgrade procedure.

As usual, any feedback is extremely appreciated at [email protected] mailbox.

Best regards,
Tim and Parallels Team

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Download links:

Parallels Desktop for Mac Beta Build 3036 - http://download.parallels.com/beta/Parallels Desktop 3036 Mac en.dmg

Parallels Tools For Boot Camp - http://download.parallels.com/beta/Parallels-Tools-Bcp-1.0.3-Win.exe
 
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Someone asked about Zune software

Someone asked about Zune software incomptibilities well
did you know someione is working on some software to run the Zune on OSX
http://www.wentnet.com/projects/xnjb/
I used this software with a Zen Micro before I got my iPod so keep checking at the link I gave you and I am pretty sure they will have it running soon
 
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ToolBar

The "pause" icon in the old version of Parallels suspended the virtual machine ... now it just pauses and you need to go to ACTION to suspend the virtual machine. It would be nice to have an icon on the tool bar to suspend.
 
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You missed the point here: I am NOT trying to use Macdrive THROUGH Parallels. I use Macdrive when I boot NATIVELY through BOOTCAMP. Now, it seems that the Parallels Tools just brake out the Macdrive installation. I tried reinstalling Macdrive with no success. I am about to uninstall Parallels Tools and drop using Parallels until this issue is resolved because I depend on accessing the files at my Mac partition when I am running natively at Windows. Otherwise it just seems I am sitting at a Windows notebook with sub-optimal partition size and without any of my files. Again: I am not speaking of running Macdrive inside Parallels, it's just the Parallels tools that broke Macdrive at Boocamp natively.
 
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Bootcamp + Macdrive

Ok, the way I see it, Parallels installs a few things to startup at my Windows.
C:\program files\parallels\parallels tools\
- parallelstoolscenter.exe
- prlwindowservice.exe
- prltoolsservice.exe

C:\windows\system32\drivers
- pcitg.sys
- prleth.sys
- prlvideo.sys
- ptilink.sys

None of the programs above seems to start up at the normal bootcamp profile. So the usual suspects are the drivers. One of this drivers are overriding something at Macdrive. As both use underground techniques it is not difficult that the Parallels Drivers are conflicting with MediaFour Drivers.

I ran Rootkit Revealer to see if anything was trying to run as a rootkit, but it was negative. Event Viewer also doesn't render a clue about this. To Macdrive it is as the Mac Partition suddenly disappeared.
 
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everything cool on the Macmini now alls i need is decent USB and audio support

Wow and double Wow works perfect on my Mac Mini thanks guy
I Love the new features.
The only thing I am waiting on (well my friend more than me) is better USB support and better audio support so I can use other sound cards attached to USB like USB headsets
I have a friend who has to run a special Viop system and headset in Audtralia and it only runs in XP
and it evidently wont work with the current USB setup
:D :D
 
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AlexTheStampede said:
Auto answer to my question (weird, i tought it worked only on XP ) http://s2.supload.com/free/weird-20061201204416.png/view/
It works, but it looks somewhat weird.... it's not like the skin has issues, because the piece of wallpaper shown is in different sizes for every window.
BTW it's Win 2k.
Any explanations to that? :-\
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This might be because of the shadow drops with transparency. Transparency can't be handled, the window seems to be the size of what you expect plus the transparent shadow attached to it.
 
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Mac Pro : seems to fail at mup.sys

Fairly standard mac pro

2.66Ghz 3GB RAM nvidia 7300

Basic boot camp scenario : 20GB NTFS partition on main drive

Yes, I read instructions and installed the Parallels tools for Boot Camp prior to installing this latest beta.

Backed up my previous XP VM. Installed beta. Ran XP VM. Seems fine.

Attempted to run a Boot Camp'ed VM (just XP nothing fancy like Vista). Cool it is using profiles to have multiple hardware for one XP activation. Nice touch. always forget about hardware profiles in windows. Oops. BSOD after selecting Parallels profile.

Restart image, this time selecting Safe mode to see where fails : mup.sys (or the next file, since the BSOD is so fast, mup.sys is last thing I see).

Read thread, thought I saw some one mention not letting memory managment be automatic. Tried manual. No luck.

Any ideas? Also, is there an official email address, I should be sending bug reports?

(also, is it me or does the mac pro often seem to have issues with parallels)
 
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Booting into Boot Camp and Reactivation issues

Still having the problem when I boot directly into Boot Camp where the Configuration Screen will not work on my MacBook Pro. However I found an intersting workaround - plug and external Apple USB Keyboard in and I can take control of it. This may only be a bug limited to MacBook Pros or all Apple intel laptops

A VERY serious problem exists where one switches back and forth between Boot Camp in native mode or under Parallels. Windows always asks to reactivate because of major changes to the hardware when under one mode or the other. This is a royal problem as well. If Parallels is going to give the user the choice of going native or virtual, this MUST be fixed.
 
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observations

snodman said:
Well, after several failures last night, I tried to boot into BootCamp directly this morning again and my keyboard WAS recognized at the "pick a volume to boot from" screen and I was able to successfully boot into XP through Boot Camp. Of course I still get the "XP must be reactivated on this computer" message even though I had never even activated it under Parallels. I have ever only had one virgin installation of XP SP2 on this Mac (through BootCamp) and the only Parallels installation on this Mac is the new beta that allows the VM to just boot from the BootCamp XP install.
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i had some issues loading the keyboard driver within parallels when i launched the bootcamp environment within parallels the first time. dialog boxes threw modal dialog boxes behind the original dialog box - happened a few times with the keyboard driver. after a couple reboots (and dealing with unresponsive apple keyboard/mouse in osx), things have appeared to settle down. using shift-control-alt lets me grab mouse (where command-tab throws up start menu...as should be expected).

not able to get shared folders running yet though.

don
 
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OMFG .... coherency is slick stuff! Forget about all the codeweavers and other hacks as this will actually work.

Next test.. try the bootcamp. But the reactivation scenario mentioned seems scary. Visual Studio SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is a freakin' resource pig.. which would require me to move to BootCamp boot for heavy lifting.

Nice work guys.. very nice work!
 
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Fix for stretched fonts on Cinema Display

cpisto said:
On my mac mini I was able to fix the stretched window while in coherence mode problem my setting the windows color depth to 24 instead of 32 bit (on a related note, this also fixes the dropping of the desktop to 8 bit color when hitting fullscreen mode on the 23" apple display)

I'm assuming this has something to do with the fact that the windows video driver for this parallels beta does not allow 32 bit color at 1920x1200 on the mac mini
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For those who are having trouble with stretched windows, try the above. On the 30" display, you have to set the color depth to 16 bits; once you do, your Windows windows will look normal in Coherence mode instead of all stretched out. You don't need to play around with the resolution settings on the Windows side (I tried that initially.)
 
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Great update ever. Can now cut and paste double-byte letters properly.

However, I have one request.

Can you make it possible to retain window settings of "Fit Window"?

Regards,
 
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zoobazz said:
OMFG .... coherency is slick stuff! Forget about all the codeweavers and other hacks as this will actually work.

Next test.. try the bootcamp. But the reactivation scenario mentioned seems scary. Visual Studio SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is a freakin' resource pig.. which would require me to move to BootCamp boot for heavy lifting.

Nice work guys.. very nice work!
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it's really not a big deal. i called the phone number in the re-activation dialog box. got someone in india. i read off the numbers on the screen...she gave me new numbers. bam! done!

(total time to get activated - about 10min)

don
 
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Palm sync not working

Syncing my Treo 650 over USB works fine under the official release, but not with the new beta. I hit the sync button and hear the Windows "bu-deep" sound, so I know Windows is noticing the new USB device, but the Palm hotsync manager app never fires up.

Other than that, and having to set the color depth to use it on a large display, the new beta is working great for me. Coherence mode is a pretty jaw-dropping demo to show people.
 
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So i'm an iggit

Why can't I seem to get coherence working? Can someone post an dummys step by step guide for me? When I click the coherence button nothing happens, nada, zip zilch.
 
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Use Build 3036 for everything but Bootcamp access (yes/no)?

Hi all,
Sounds like all of the new features work pretty well, except for the bootcamp within parallels issues.

I am TOTALLY sold on Parallels, especially since build 1970. Its just been rock-solid for me. However, I don't want to risk corrupting data on my bootcamp partition, simply to access it via Parallels. Don't get me wrong, I can't wait to access bootcamp within parallels...but it sounds like we'll have to wait until the next revision.

I'm sure the parallels development team is getting plenty of constructive feedback...oh, in just the past 24 hours since it's release ;)

That being said, is everyone's data staying safe when using 3036, as long as bootcamp access featured is not accessed?

Thanks in advance,
 
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justadam28 said:
Why can't I seem to get coherence working? Can someone post an dummys step by step guide for me? When I click the coherence button nothing happens, nada, zip zilch.
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i just installed on my macmini and when windows booted i installed the paralleles tools rebooted and then i choose ciherency from the menu at the top.. thats it nothing else to setup and it is amazing.. it looks like nothing has happened except you have a windows task bar back on your OSX desktop and you run windows apps from there.. i have dragged my windows taskbar to the left side of screen and osx dock is on the right side
 
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For anyone receiving this error, please see this thread:
http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?p=30449
This error seems to relate to the Tools install quiting during installation.
Hopefully the mods will see it any come up with a solutions.
 
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