arstechnica.com— The beta tag has been lifted from Parallels Desktop and is a free update for existing users, or $79.99 for everyone else.
Feb 27, 2007View in Crawl 4
Ok, I tried creating a new VM in Parallels, and in the wizard, selecting Vista as my OS. The 'Use BootCamp' option is greyed out if you select Vista though, so I went back and chose Windows XP, and then selected 'Use BootCamp' for the hard disk option.The VM tried to start, it asked me for my OSX password a couple of times, but then it just bombs with an error. So, no luck so far. Any advice or ideas would be appreciated, I'm pretty new to Parallels :)
Strange... Is there a limit on it? (Like Norton 90 day trials on new machines). I highly doubt they're going to give away a $60 program to every Parallels user for unlimited machines.
tizz66Feb 27, 2007
Ok, I tried creating a new VM in Parallels, and in the wizard, selecting Vista as my OS. The 'Use BootCamp' option is greyed out if you select Vista though, so I went back and chose Windows XP, and then selected 'Use BootCamp' for the hard disk option.The VM tried to start, it asked me for my OSX password a couple of times, but then it just bombs with an error. So, no luck so far. Any advice or ideas would be appreciated, I'm pretty new to Parallels :)
Closed AccountFeb 27, 2007
Strange... Is there a limit on it? (Like Norton 90 day trials on new machines). I highly doubt they're going to give away a $60 program to every Parallels user for unlimited machines.
superkendallFeb 27, 2007
I second that thought, just run the Mac client instead of the Windows client. It will work much, much better.
jocameroFeb 27, 2007
Here's a link to a fast mirror: <a class="user" href="http://parallels.nfshost.com/">http://parallels.nfshost.com/</a>I was getting > 1 MB/sec just a few minutes ago...It's now installed and running great!FYI: It appears that the Parallels site has died. =(
kutzaFeb 28, 2007
A FREE update for a piece of software that runs on an Apple? I can see why this is newsworthy.
romeyromeFeb 28, 2007
Still can't boot from a native Windows HD? Still a hel-of-a bang for the buck though.
bmobileFeb 28, 2007
As far as I know, they (the Parallels team) has said that 3D acceleration support is coming soon. This support would, of course, enable Aero.
moogoo71Feb 28, 2007
Thanks for the mirror! It's working great.
aimtechMar 1, 2007
I installed it in 15 minutes. It found book camp and everything works perfect.