Parallels Desktop for Mac Update Beta2 (Build 3094)
There are a lot of features and enhancements introduced in this Beta, such as:
- NEW! USB 2.0 support – “Plug and play†popular USB devices like external hard drives, printers, and scanners, and use them at full native speed.
- NOTE! Current Build 3094 doesn’t support isochronous devices such as web cameras, microphones, etc.
- NEW! Full-feature virtual CD/DVD drive – Burn CDs and DVDs directly in virtual machines, and play any copy-protected CD or DVD just like you would on a real PC
- NEW! Improved Coherence mode – The groundbreaking feature that lets you run Windows applications without seeing Windows just got better! Now you can:
- Place Windows applications on your Mac desktop or in your application dock. Just click to launch them directly from OS X!
- Use Command+tab to cycle through Windows and Mac applications
simultaneously, and “hide and show†Windows applications just like you
would with Mac applications - View the Windows Command Console in Coherence mode
- Use Coherence in Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows XP and Windows Vista!
- NEW! Better Boot Camp support – Using your Boot Camp partition in Parallels Desktop is now easier than ever. Beta2’s Boot Camp support includes:
- Full support for FAT32 and NTFS partitions
- Easy offline configuration. Simply tell Parallels Desktop
that you want to create a virtual machine from a Boot Camp Partition
and click start. No complicated set up required! - No need to re-activate Windows each time you switch between
Boot Camp and Parallels. Activate Windows only once inside Parallels
and work in both environments - IMPORTANT! It is not possible to suspend a Virtual Machine that is connected to Boot Camp as it could result in an unstable system.
- VERY IMPORTANT! Beta1
(build 3036) users must boot natively into Boot Camp and uninstall
Parallels Tools for Boot Camp prior to running it in Beta2 (build 3094).
- NEW! Parallels Transporter Beta2 bundled – migrate your real Windows PC, or existing VMware or Virtual PC VMs to Parallels virtual machines! Learn more about Parallels Transporter Beta2 >>
- IMPORTANT! Beta1
users MUST upgrade their Transporter package on their Windows source
machine before using Parallels Transporter in Beta2. Failing to do so
may result in a system crash and loss of data
- IMPORTANT! Beta1
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