Mofo-X Posted December 22, 2006 Share Posted December 22, 2006 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 New Look and Feel - completely redesigned windows and easier to follow dialogues to make Desktop for Mac more user-friendly than ever True “Drag and Drop” functionality - a long awaited feature that lets you seamlessly drag and drop files and folders from Windows to Mac OS X and vice versa Read/Write Boot Camp partition - use your Apple Boot Camp Partition as a virtual HDD for Parallels Desktop for Mac Virtual Machine Catalogue - now all of your virtual machines are available through a centralized VM catalogue which appears on each Parallels Desktop for Mac instance One-click Virtual Machine Aliases - automatically create a desktop shortcut for your virtual machine with the OS Installation Assistant, by dragging-and-dropping from title bar, or by pressing Command-Option keys combination. Clicking on Alias automatically starts the Virtual Machine Resizable Main Window - resize the Parallels Desktop for Mac main window as you do with any other Mac application Auto-Adjusting Screen Resolution - Windows auto-adjusts its screen resolution to the actual main window size Improved graphic performance - up to 50% faster! Connect/disconnect USB devices schema improved - no more annoying “wait 5-10 seconds” message on USB device connecting to Parallels Desktop for Mac! Up to 5 Virtual NICs - now each Virtual Machine can have up to five virtual network interfaces Enhanced Shared Networking Mode - run Cisco VPN and many other complex networking applications in conjunction with Connection Sharing Mode To get the Beta Build click the Download button below. Note that in order to activate Parallels Desktop for Mac Update Beta2 (Build 3094) you need a valid activation key. If you are a current Parallels Desktop for Mac user this Update will use your existing activation key. New users need to get a trial key to use the software. For more information and download see http://www.parallels.com/products/desktop/beta_testing/ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36555-new-parallels-desktop-beta-2-build-3094/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
skredii Posted December 22, 2006 Share Posted December 22, 2006 Hmmm, the option 'Use Boot camp' partition is still grayed out on a hack Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36555-new-parallels-desktop-beta-2-build-3094/#findComment-260017 Share on other sites More sharing options...
phor2zero Posted December 22, 2006 Share Posted December 22, 2006 It's not likely it's ever really going to work on a hackint0sh. Unless you can figure out how to make a hackint0sh with a GUID partition scheme. I'm really excited about this, but I think I should wait for the final release before updating. I really don't want to mess up my Windows partition with the beta "Parallels Tools" software. (last time it didn't work very well, and I ended up having to reinstall XP) On that note: the notice linked above doesn't mention installing "Parallels Tools" like the last release did, in fact it says to uninstall any old version before booting in Parallels. Does this mean we don't need to install Parallels tools to Windows anymore? Does anyone know? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36555-new-parallels-desktop-beta-2-build-3094/#findComment-260039 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kramer2k Posted December 22, 2006 Share Posted December 22, 2006 It's not likely it's ever really going to work on a hackint0sh. Unless you can figure out how to make a hackint0sh with a GUID partition scheme. I'm really excited about this, but I think I should wait for the final release before updating. I really don't want to mess up my Windows partition with the beta "Parallels Tools" software. (last time it didn't work very well, and I ended up having to reinstall XP) On that note: the notice linked above doesn't mention installing "Parallels Tools" like the last release did, in fact it says to uninstall any old version before booting in Parallels. Does this mean we don't need to install Parallels tools to Windows anymore? Does anyone know? Still have trouble with the mouse going to the right hand corner when changing resolutions. Dang-nabit! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36555-new-parallels-desktop-beta-2-build-3094/#findComment-260078 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Proteo Posted December 22, 2006 Share Posted December 22, 2006 On that note: the notice linked above doesn't mention installing "Parallels Tools" like the last release did, in fact it says to uninstall any old version before booting in Parallels. Does this mean we don't need to install Parallels tools to Windows anymore? At least in regular VM's (using an image file as HDD) just after booting it will ask you to reinstall Parallels Tools. So it still is required I guess. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36555-new-parallels-desktop-beta-2-build-3094/#findComment-260102 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted December 22, 2006 Share Posted December 22, 2006 Continue here: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=36565 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36555-new-parallels-desktop-beta-2-build-3094/#findComment-260167 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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