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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tychop said:
Does anybody know if I can use my XP Pro key on a Windows XP Corp edition cd?
I really need to fix my activation issues within three days....... Otherwise it will lock me out.

Can someone from Parallel's tell me which version of XP they've tested, and if they ran into activation issues?

Thanx in advance.

It's been a long time since I've been so excited about a piece of software. I can hardly wait to run Rational Application Developer & Portal server in coherency mode & show off to my windows collegues....
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No, you cannot use an XP Pro Retail (or even OEM) key with an XP Corp edition. Again, you fix activation issues by using the Parallels Tools for Boot Camp. But... If you haven't changed the hardware, even if Windows gets de-activated, you can just re-activate, and it will work. (Assuming, of course, you're using a legal copy.)
 
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retrospek said:
I'm not sure why - but this Coherence feature looks really odd on my 24" iMac. The Windows Taskbar seems to be stretched and the fonts look really bad (both on the taskbar and any applications I run)..

This may sound a silly question - but have you tested this on a 24" iMac ? or is anyone else getting this problem ?
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I am getting the same problem, using a Mac Pro with a 13 inch Apple Display.
 
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bootcamp tools download issues

Is anyone else having issue downloading the bootcamp tools? When I try, it downloads like 90kb then the feed stops... I'm REALLY excited to test this out :)
 
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My initial problems (keyboard, activation)

When starting up under boot camp, the keyboard is not active so there is no way to select the configuration to boot under. The way I found to work around this was to connect an external USB keyboard, which would then work.

Also, booting under Parallels put it in "you must activate" mode (since as far as it is concerned, the hardware has changed), I reactivated when booted under boot camp and was able to do it online. Not sure if it is going to come up every time one goes back and forth between Boot Camp and Parallels.
 
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Hi,

updating Parallels Tools in my virtual machine crashed... i saw a blue screen with many white lines, it rebooted, and now it's stuck on the scandisk (stopped at 25% the first time, 18% the second time).

Hopefully i have a backup of my virtual machine!

I'll try again on another copy and i tell you if it crashes again.

(by the way: it is on a brand new C2D MacBook with 2GB RAM)

Art
 
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Wow! With such a feature packed free release, i have problems imagining how good the next paid update must be. Can't wait for it ;-) Thanks for this early christmas gift!
 
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Wow. Nice work Parallels team. This is a stunning release.

I have run into a problem. I have a 2nd disk with bootcamp installed. When I tried to install the tools for boot camp app, I received an error that says, "Your configuration is not currently supported, but we hope to resolve this in an upcoming release". And the installer just quits.

Hardware: Mac Pro, 2GB, 2 disks (one is OS X, the other is NTFS/Windows XP SP2 using bootcamp)

What is the specific conflict and how do I resolve this?

Thanks in advance!
 
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Hi, i am having the same problem as both of you. I'm running on C2D macbook 2GB. Followed the instructions (install xp with bootcamp, install parallels tools in xp, set up VM in mac os)

sabotage said:
I get the same error. I'm running on a C2D Macbook 1GB. I installed the tools in Windows XP Bootcamp then I came back to OSX and followed the instructions in the PDF for setting up a VM Bootcamp.
Help - was really wanting to use this.
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Michael A. Lowry said:
Hello, Parallels guys:
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I am seeing an error message when attemting to boot Parallels Desktop build 3036 Beta from my Boot Camp partition. The error message follows.

Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem.
Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk hardwaare.
Please check the Windows documentation about hardware disk configuration and your hardware reference manuals for additional information.​

I successfully downloaded and installed the Parallels Tools for Boot Camp while my Mac Pro was booted from the Windows partition, so I know that the drive works.

I suspect that the problem may be related to the fact that my Boot Camp partition (an NTFS partition) is the second parition on the drive. The first partition on that drive is a Journaled HFS+ partition. Oh, and in addition to being the second paritition on the drive, the Boot Camp partition is also located on the second SATA drive in the system.

I tried adjusting the Advanced drive settings for the virtual machine so that the IDE address of the boot parition was different. None of the available choices seemed to work. In fact, changing this setting made Parallels Desktop unable to find any boot partition.

Let me know if you need additional information.

Regards,
Michael A. Lowry
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I don't really understand what you mean by having a second partition on the drive? maybe u r installing in the external drive. I have mine in installed in the macbook hd, so there are 2 partitions, the macOS partition, and the bootcamp partition.
 
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Parallels COMPRESSOR is BROKEN in this beta!!!!


I tried to compress my XP VM twice with the same result:

After the reboot it took a unusual long time in the prepare to compact disk stage. Then it went to 100% and the window went dark and nothing happened. Seemed to be frozen. Had to stop the VM.

This no good!!!
 
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love coherence, but hate the windows taskbar

It's too tacky sitting stuck on top of the dock. I would suggest putting a dock icon into the dock that can access the start menu, XP windows, etc. I think VPC used to have something like this (without coherence of course).
 
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Were you able to solve this problem? I am running into the same problem, but I have BootCamp installed!

ehurtley said:
Well, I have a Boot Camp partition (NTFS), and I have booted into XP on it and installed the Parallels Tools for Boot Camp, which went fine.

Then I went to create a new VM using the Boot Camp partition. It doesn't even recognize Boot Camp as a valid option. (See attachment.)

I am thinking it might be that I do not have the Boot Camp software installed on this copy of OS X. I installed Boot Camp months ago, then just last week re-installed the Mac OS. As the Boot Camp version of Windows still works fine, I never bothered to re-install Boot Camp on the OS X side. So just to test, I am downloading Boot Camp again right now.
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Andrew @ Parallels said:
DOS box in Coherence is known issue. We are working on it. As for large characters I didn't understood the testcase - could you describe in more details please?
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Hi Andrew,

this thread is quiet large now, hope you find my posting.

This issue must be based on an iMac (24"). When I run coherence mode on my macbook, this look well. If I use the same VM on my iMac, the fonts look like 5x magnified. I have attached a JPG screen dump.
 

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Mediafour MacDrive

Will it be possible to use for example MediaFours MacDrive 6 to access my Mac/HFS+ partitions from a "boot camp loaded" virtual machine?

As of now the Mac partitions seem to be invisible to MacDrive in Parallels.
 
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Issue with installing Parallels Tools for non-admin users

I noticed one thing when I upgraded to this beta:

I have fast user switching enabled on my Macbook Pro. Each user has one or more VMs installed. This Parallels beta was installed by an admin user and installation of the new Parallels Tools went fine. When I started a VM of a non-admin user and started the "Install Parallels Tools" menu action, it simply hung and the installer never ran. I had to manually edit the VM to mount the VMTOOLS.ISO image and start the Parallels Tools installer manually.
 
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[email protected] said:
I too had the same problem on my Mac Pro. However, simply putting the memory on manual did NOT fix the problem. I had to drag the slider up near the 1GB range. Much below that and my system would still become unresponsive.
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I had to do the same. MacPro 2x3Ghz, 4GB Ram. Setting the memory to automaticaly, my system hung, setting it to manualy, 512 MB, my system hun, setting the slider to 1024Mb, I could get the windows started.

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Sincerely,

Patrick Mast,
xHarbour.com Inc.
http://www.xHarbour.com
 
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