Petr Šourek Year after year came together and Parallels Desktop they come to us in a new version. They promise a lot of news on their manufacturer's website. That's why we looked at how much the visualization software has changed compared to the previous version.
When OSX Lion was released recently, an announcement appeared on the website of the manufacturer Parallels Desktop. In the near future, there will be a version that will allow OS X Lion to be virtualized. At the time I thought it would be just another minor update, but I was wrong. After about a month of waiting, version 7 was released. This time, Parallels again promises higher performance, support for OS X Lion, support for iSight for virtual machines, support for up to 1 GB of graphics memory and many other goodies.
After installing, importing and starting the existing virtual machine, which I run on old Windows XP, I did not see the slightest change. Windows booted up about as fast as it did in its predecessor, loaded new drivers and worked exactly the same (I don't know how much the fact that I'm still using a Late 2,5 MBP with a Core 2008 Duo processor after 2 years, but subjective feeling is the same). The only difference was support for full screen mode. Although I didn't want to use it, I really liked it and I can't imagine my daily work without it. Windows in this mode searches for its optimal resolution setting for a while, but once it finds it, there is no problem working with them and they work just as quickly as in Parallels Desktop 6.
The biggest change for me is connecting with Parallels Store, which is almost integrated into Parallels Desktop. Previously, when you installed or imported a virtual machine with Microsoft Windows, you were automatically offered to install an antivirus (Kaspersky). Now Parallels offers you a little more. If you choose to install a new machine, a window will pop up where you can choose convenience store, which will redirect you to the site Parallels.com and there you can buy products from both Microsoft and other companies. In addition to the license of the operating system, here we can find Microsoft Office, Roxio Creator or Turbo CAD.
An interesting option when creating a new virtual machine is the option to install Chrome OS, Linux (in this case, Fedora or Ubuntu) directly from the Parallels environment. Just choose a new virtual machine and on the next screen just click on one of these systems and they will be installed for you for free. This is a download and unpacking of an already pre-installed and pre-set system from Parallels.com. In Parallels Desktop 6 this option was also available, but one had to visit the manufacturer's website and search. I suspect that they had pre-installed systems like FreeBSD and the like, anyway it was not in my power to download and try them (when I want a system, I create a new virtual machine and download the installation disk).
Installing OSX Lion directly from the recovery disk also seems to be a nice option. This will be welcomed by people who did not keep the installation media. Parallels boots from this drive and then downloads everything it needs over the internet and you have a virtual installation of OSX Lion. It will ask for your Apple ID and password during installation, but don't worry, you won't be buying it a second time. This is just to verify that you have actually purchased the system.
Another improvement is the ability to use the camera in virtual machines. However, I have no use for it. It works, but I don't need to use it.
Overall, I like the new Parallels Desktop even though I admit I've only been using it for a few days. If I didn't want Full Screen and Mac OS X Lion virtualization support, I wouldn't upgrade and wait for the next version. Anyway, we'll see after about a month of use, I'd like to share my experience and write whether I'm still satisfied or disappointed.
I also tried and I have a problem with the PD connection on IOS
Can you please break it down? I would try and let it lead.
I have uprgade from version 6, everything works perfectly. I recommend. Tried connecting from iPad, good too.
Nice afternoon,
since the very beginning that I own the current MB White 2009 late, I use Parallels Desktop 5 and I normally have Full Screen in it :-D Maybe I unknowingly downloaded some utility, but it works for me. And they are sufficient for my needs
Yes, you are right, this fs has probably been around since the beginning of virtualization:) I am talking about the new possibility of Lion, when fullscreen gives a new virtual desktop with a virtual machine and does not occupy the main desktop:) I can't believe that Jobs named it the same:)
Great, but one important thing is still missing, and that is the direct import of virtual disks into the created machine :((((we have a lot of backups of PC customers at work, and the import of gho or tbo or tib and other images would help if it was native in the application. :)))
I was very surprised by Fedora already in version 15, that's already such an OS almost like for iPad :) quite a progress from some version 8 that I last used a long time ago. I still have to decide to try a virtualized Lion ... although I don't really think of using such a virtualized Mac OS X environment. Have any of you tried this yet?
Hi, so far I've only ever used Windows on a Mac via Boot Camp. But I would like to try virtualization if there is an option for that trial version. I want to ask what is the difference between Parallels and its competitor VMware? Which one would you rather recommend? Thanks
http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?t=114144
How is it when playing games through Parallels??? on my MacBook 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo and 4 DDR3, NVIDIA GeForce 320M 256 MB if I play World of Tanks?? I can't start it directly in OS Lion, so if you install it via Parallels, you need Windows 7 and run it there,