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http://www.parallels.com/files/upload/mac_fullscreen_1.gif

http://www.parallels.com/en/products/workstation/mac/

This looks like a sort of mix between VPC and Boot Camp. They talk about virtualization, meaning a VM that's able to direct access pherifericals and run almost to native speed (at least they say so).
Anyone tested it (I'm at work now, cannot). ;]

[Chungy_KR]

I tested it, and it worked very, very fast.
I think it is way faster than VPC as you don't need to emulate PPC -> Intel thing anymore.
The login screen comes up basically 8 seconds after you press the green button (now that's pretty fast).

I deleted it after testing though, as I already have Boot Camp and don't really need Windows other than gaming.

[budy]

Hi,

I've done some testing, too and it is really a breeze. Although looks more like a kind of emulation, than virtualization, but who cares. In the end, its fast and easy to set up. Plus, you can run XP and Mac OS X side by side.

A pretty neat program - I am thinking about actually buying it, since I need some programms tha run only on Windows frequently and having to reboot my MBP to start Windows is quite inconvinient.

Budy

[diamondsw]

Although looks more like a kind of emulation, than virtualization, but who cares. In the end, its fast and easy to set up. Plus, you can run XP and Mac OS X side by side.

Given the kext's it has loaded in it, it sure looks like a virtualization product to me. From their web site, it looks like they've been on Linux for a while.

Also, VMWare is coming:

"VMware has plans to roll out virtualization for consumers over coming years. "We can run it on the Mac OS in our labs already," Greene says."

Article (http://blogs.usatoday.com/maney/2006/04/mac_and_xp_a_vi.html)