Not BootCamp, better!!

[hiaw]

http://edge.macworld.com/images/content/2006/04/06/parallels.jpg

Anyone tried out this virtualisation tool from Parallels Workstation?? It looks real cool that you can run windows inside of mac using hardward instead of software emulation. So in theory, it should run at full or near full speed.

Could someone try this out and report back their experience? Maybe try gaming and 3Dmarks on it?

http://www.parallels.com/

Cheers :rolleyes:

[Chungy_KR]

I couldn't install graphics driver under Parallels.
Even tried the ones came with Boot Camp. No chance.

[yiddo]

check these out, mines up and running, only allowed 126 mb of memory for windows but still good enough 2 play video via parallel!

http://advancestudio.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/winmac.jpg
http://advancestudio.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/mac.jpg

[dailo]

Now "near-native" speed is it?

Can you get a higher resolution?

[dailo]

Guess I'll answer my own question, seems pretty stinking fast.

http://www.prodedgy.com/article/51


Can't wait to get home to try it out. Should of brought my MAC to work!!!

[yiddo]

i reckon so! its 100x better 2 use than virtual pc. dont know if latest games would work in it though

[rastaman]

I seems that this will be difficult to run game with the actual version of Parallels Workstation :
Which graphic applications can run inside a Parallels Workstation 2.1 virtual machine?
Parallels Workstation virtualizes VGA and SVGA with VESA 3.0 support video card. This allows you to run any 2D graphic application inside guest OS. Direct3D support is in scope for future versions of Parallels Workstation.
(from http://www.parallels.com/en/support/faq/ )
But this is good enough to avoid rebooting in windows to test a Java2D app or use Beyond Compare, so i will install it (and still dual boot to have games).
Best regards,

[intenost]

Hi, Anyone figure out if you would need to install XP twice to use the dual boot and virtualization methods, and if so, would you need to activate XP twice?

-ost

[iZee]

You would need to install XP twice--once in a virtual machine, and once on a partition on your hard drive.

[tobes]

I've binned the onmac solution on my MBP in favour of this, seeing as my main need is for occasional access to Visio and Project. You can see why it's still a Beta - occasional mouse droppings, very odd handling of CDs (it often finds images that have already been ejected), but the speed is sooooo much faster than Virtual PC on my PowerBook.

:)

Tobes

[e_whizz]

You would need to install XP twice--once in a virtual machine, and once on a partition on your hard drive.


Yeah you need to have it installed twice, which is a bummer. They claim to be working on support for booting from a real volume and will include this in future versions....

I did try to 'trick' the virtual machine into booting from the /dev/disk0s3 as a CD-Rom device (and altered permissions on the Mac to suite) but no cigar.

Anyone else?

[NeoRicen]

This doesn't have graphics drivers and probably never will, you won't be playing games on this, you'll need BootCamp for that.

[WandaLust]

All,

Looks interesting but I am still not sold on the whole "Virtualisation" idea. We need to see real live tests done on a machine running win xp in the Virtualisation package and also running native (using Bootcamp is now poss).

I can not believe just how much faster XP performs natively on an iMac 20" core duo than other versions I've had. Would also like to see some comparative figures of Core Duo PC based systems vs iMac core duo systems running xp native and in virtualisation modes.

For me I am sticking to native mode, I have no desire to run windows apps from OS/X or vice-versa. I am more interested in hot switching between native OS's which is where I think I will turn my sights now apple have kicked my ideas out by releasing bootcamp - glad though as it was only ever going to be a short live thing. Either apple would release firmware updates to support the "Classic" BIOS or M$ would actually support EFI...

So whatever it's done we have won ....:eek:

[psychoboogie]

been playing around, put xp and ubuntu on it. Wicked fast on mac book pro 2 ghz. gonna upgrade my ram to 2 gigs to see if it plays even better.

haven't found sound support though. that is a little bit of a kicker. Games are goingt to have to be played on bootcamp partition.

[organik]

Has wonky optical drive support, no USB (yet), no firewire (yet)...so if you need any of those things for your XP experience, it's bootcamp. I would LOVE for Parallels to support USB and Firewire, I'd ditch my dual boot situation in a heartbeat. I dislike XP very much, but HAVE to use it for work.

[imapetert]

I worry for this companies well being, as Apple will be doing something HUGE in Leopard with regards to dual booting/virtualization.