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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@Junyor: It is great for cut and paste, but but does not work for undo or select all. Is it confined to cut and paste only? If more, what other features (print etc) are available with the standard apple keyboard shortcuts?

Your help is greatly appreciated!
Valerie, who is thrilled to use DNS on her Mac at whatever inconvenience.
 
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Command-AZXCV should work, according to the original post here. So, that means:

- Select All
- Undo
- Cut
- Copy
- Paste

If any of those aren't working, I'm not really sure why.

FYI, there's a new beta out just now, so that might help.
 
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New Beta?

Where's the link to the new beta....is it the same as the last one?


Junyor said:
Command-AZXCV should work, according to the original post here. So, that means:

- Select All
- Undo
- Cut
- Copy
- Paste

If any of those aren't working, I'm not really sure why.

FYI, there's a new beta out just now, so that might help.
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bemaniac said:
So I'm having an interesting problem... not sure if this has been fixed:

I set up Parallels to use my Windows XP Boot Camp partition. I re-activated and everything works great.

I then try to boot into Boot Camp, and at the screen where it asks me to pick between "Parallels" and "Windows XP", I can't press up or down or enter or anything!

Help?
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Hi, I am experiencing the same problem than you. everything works fine when I boot windows bootcamp from Parallel, I can chose the parralel configuration by going down with the arrow, but when I am trying to boot directly with bootcap, my keyboard is stuck at the first screen asking to chose the conguration. I ned to hard reset and sometimes it works I can't explian why.
Any ideas ?
Thanks
Bruno
 
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bzmac said:
Hi, I am experiencing the same problem than you. everything works fine when I boot windows bootcamp from Parallel, I can chose the parralel configuration by going down with the arrow, but when I am trying to boot directly with bootcap, my keyboard is stuck at the first screen asking to chose the conguration. I ned to hard reset and sometimes it works I can't explian why.
Any ideas ?
Thanks
Bruno
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Have had the same trouble. That's how it worked for me.

Boot XP in Parallels, then uninstall Parallels Tools. Next remove the Parallels hardware profile (to be found in the System settings). Finally, edit boot.ini and remove the Parallels entry. Take care to adjust the default - probably to partition(1).

Now, boot XP from Boot Camp and re-install the Mac drivers from your Boot camp CD. If all fails, you may have to do a windows repair installation from your Windows installation CD first.

Now you should have a clean boot camp XP installation.

Next , start the new Parallels beta. Let it do its installation stuff. After that, coherence didn't work here. So I manually installed the Parallel Tools again, even though it's said not be necessary. However, after that, everything works as expected, and I can boot both in Boot camp and in Parallels. Also, there is no more need to choose an installation or hardware profile during XP startup. Good work!

HTH!
 
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Please provide configurable hot-key mapping

The 3036 Beta introduced Command-T to toggle between two states of the Parallels window display. I use this combination HEAVILY in my own applications. Could you please provide some way for us to configure any key combination of our choice to achieve the desired Parallels behavior? The same applies for other "Command-whatever" key combinations that Parallels decides to "reserve" for its own use.

Thanks
 
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Still activation window

Although at first this beta 2 seemed to have solved the activation troubles, I now am confronted again with the need to reactivate my Windows XP (installed in Boot Camp) license when using Parallels. :confused:
 
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YoramIH said:
Although at first this beta 2 seemed to have solved the activation troubles, I now am confronted again with the need to reactivate my Windows XP (installed in Boot Camp) license when using Parallels. :confused:
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Can you explain a little more detailed under which circumstances the activation reappeared?
 
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After booting WinXP via Parallels a warning appeared saying that the hardware is too different from the first time I activated WinXP and I have to reactivate. Afetr reading the instructions by Parallels it seems that this is normal.

After reactivating will I be able to keep using both Boot Camp to boot WinXP and Parallels??

Update: I tried to reactivate, but then I get a window telling me that I can not reactivate anymore and I will have to contact Microsoft if I feel this message is not valid.
 
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Working Method

I finally got Parallels up and working with a Boot Camp partition, Coherence and all. In hopes of helping others, I'm posting my setup and what I did.


System: MacBook Pro
Processor: 2.33 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
Memory (RAM): 2GB
Hard Drive: 120GB

Parallels: Parallels Desktop for Mac build 3094 Beta 2

Mac OS X: Version 10.4.8 With all updates installed as of Dec 22nd, 2006
Windows: Windows XP Professional (Pro) Corporate (Corp) Service Pack 2 (SP2)

The errors I encountered before but were bypasses or fixed were:
"Computer disk hardware configuration problem"
"Unable to open disk image Boot Camp"



  • I started with a factory install of Mac OS X. With Boot Camp I partitioned 95GB to Mac OS X and 25GB to Windows. I installed Windows normally.
  • Right at the first boot into Windows I installed the Macintosh Drivers from the burned Boot Camp CD and restarted.
  • I went to C:\Windows\Driver Cache\i386\ and made a copy of driver.cab and named it sp2.cab (got the tip from this thread). Then I installed Parallels Tools for Boot Camp (main) (mirror). I got Error Code 1 but it's fine.
  • I rebooted back into Mac OS X and installed then opened Parallels. I created a new Operating System by going to File, New, Custom, Windows XP, and marked that it should use the Boot Camp partition. Windows began to load (instead of an error :D).
  • Here waiting is *key*. The only thing you should do is click cancel when boxes pop up asking you to install drivers for various devices and wait until there are no more pop ups.
  • Actions from the top menu and Install Parallels Tools... I then restarted Windows in Parallels.
  • To get Coherence running, when Windows in Parallels started up again, I went to Start, Run, typed in cmd and pressed enter. Then I typed cd C:\Program Files\Parallels\Parallels Tools\ and pressed enter. Finally I typed cohrence.exe install (no typo) and pressed enter. These things must be typed in verbatim by the way (this was inspired by a part of this faq).
  • Finally reboot Windows in Parallels for good measure.

Hope this helps some people. :)
 
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Re: Beta 2

Just wanted to say I think you're really made my life better running pc on my mac than my pc makes running pc on on my. (that says it all). anyway... despite the 2 physical reboots I got stuck into to update to beta 2 (maybe I should have uninstalled p.tools first ?) I promptly got it to work.. beta 2 has been good to me. USB2 works great and something you guys didnt mention was that suspend and wake up times have improved substantially.. like 3 seconds each.. thats great compared to the 25±5 seconds of the previous beta. thanks guys :)


-Russ.

m.b.p c2d 2.33 15.4 and loving it.
 
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adding a sp2.cab file to i386 does not solve my "cannot load operating system" error immediately when BootCamp Partion starts to boot under Parallels. yes tools is gone, yes no other OS lines in the boot.ini file.
 
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Coherence

:eek: Let me first say that the new Coherence mode is remarkable and I'll fall in love with my mac all over again when all the bugs are worked out.

There is one annoying little catch in the way I was trying to use it, to explain:

I set up my windows taskbar to stick to the left side and auto-hide when not in use. So now when I want to run a windows app, I run the cursor to the left-hand side of the screen and the start menu shows up. Precisely what I expected from a killer app like parallels. If, indeed, I run a windows program the menu disappears and everything is happy.

When I don't open a program, perhaps because I exposed the taskbar by mistake, I can't take the mouse away and make it disappear. I'm sure the issue is that the pointer was still within the range of the taskbar when windows stopped getting messages about the pointer. Otherwise my experience has been absolutley seamless.

Honestly, thats the only problem I've found and if that's the only thing that goes wrong you deserve a standing ovation, nice job.
 
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Syncing my Gigabeat

I have a toshiba gigabeat that I use as my primary mp3 player (my previous computer was a toshiba) In any case I appreciate the update of the 2.0 usb but whenever I connect the gigabeat to the computer I get a message saying that some other program is using it and that the windows side cannot get access to it and I should try again in 5-10 seconds. Is there something that I can do to fix the problem?
 
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Audio CDs and DVD problems

Whenever I try to play a dvd or cd on the windows side I get a message from windows media player 11 saying that there is not enough storage space on the computer. I tried on the itunes on the windows side and it also will not play the cd. What can I do?
 
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Upgraded to 3036 and windows crashes installing Tools

I upgraded to 3036 on my system after installing it on a friends and seeing the new features. On my friends computer I installed it on a NEW Core Duo 2. It took two installs to complete. I installed once then while Tools was installing the XP system locked up. When I rebooted XP it would boot and then crash. I installed a 2nd VM and was able to succesfullt install Tools and get it running.

On my system, an original Macbook Pro Core Duo, I upgraded to 3036. About 75% through installing Tools the system locked up. I was able to reboot and get into XP and was simply flagged to upgrade tools. Now when I try to upgrade Tools, the system crashes out. I have since rolled back to 1970.

Do I need to do something different or wait for the fully tested release of 3036?
 
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