did u get email already? i havent
update: got confirmation. i will get one with the upgrade link and code soon
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did u get email already? i havent
update: got confirmation. i will get one with the upgrade link and code soon
Got the email!
Got the email from Parallels with my free upgrade to version 8. Best of all it only cost me £15! Traded in an old VMware Fusion serial when I upgraded to version 7 last week
Got the email from Parallels with my free upgrade to version 8. Best of all it only cost me £15! Traded in an old VMware Fusion serial when I upgraded to version 7 last week
Thanks, but no thanks
I won't spend 50 bucks every year for an update due parallels is not running on the previous version of OS X.
I won't spend 50 bucks every year for an update due parallels is not running on the previous version of OS X.
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Funnily enough, on one of my facebook's friends wall is a discussion about kernel panics and what causes them. According to everyone, including an ex-Apple kernel engineer, it's vmware...
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Got the email from Parallels with my free upgrade to version 8. Best of all it only cost me £15! Traded in an old VMware Fusion serial when I upgraded to version 7 last week
Woo! This is great! I had "upgraded" from parallels to vmware for $10 (I did have the original parallels when the original macbook pro came out
) And now I can "upgrade" back for $30. Wooo!!! Thanks! 
Funnily enough, on one of my facebook's friends wall is a discussion about kernel panics and what causes them. According to everyone, including an ex-Apple kernel engineer, it's vmware...
Interesting. That certainly explains why I NEVER saw a kernel panic when using VMWare.
You know, VMWare is used heavily in large data centers. Parallels not so much. If VMWare were so unstable, I guess that picture would look different.
I never got a KP with Vmware, yet when I used parallels, it was a common issue at the time.Funnily enough, on one of my facebook's friends wall is a discussion about kernel panics and what causes them. According to everyone, including an ex-Apple kernel engineer, it's vmware...
Funnily enough, on one of my facebook's friends wall is a discussion about kernel panics and what causes them. According to everyone, including an ex-Apple kernel engineer, it's vmware...
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Woo! This is great! I had "upgraded" from parallels to vmware for $10 (I did have the original parallels when the original macbook pro came out
I need some new Facebook friends... all of mine are banging off about there kids, the job centre, benefits, general Jeremy Kyle style garbage...
Don't I need a windows licence to run it?
What will it cost to run windows on mac?
I just want to test websites in IE8 and 9.
Will parallels give me win8?
What will it cost to run windows on mac?
I just want to test websites in IE8 and 9.
Will parallels give me win8?
Will definitely drop the upgrade price to $30 in the next 2-3 months. The same happened to Parallels 7 after its release, back in last Autumn.
Where do you put the coupon code? I own 7 now, but for that price and free upgrade worth buying it again.
No support for allocating more than 8gb RAM to either vm yet? Many of us are running 16gb or even 32gb on our machines and the slider max is still only 8gb. Has this been increased in version 8 I wonder? I'll probably upgrade anyways but it would be nice to know beforehand.
I am using 12gb RAM only upgraded from 4gb, hardware purchased in 2010. Maybe it is to take older machines into account?
No, you need to buy that separately. What that will cost depends on what you have already...MS are going to offer existing Windows owners $40 upgrades once Windows 8 is released through public channels.
.. Maybe it's because the overwhelming majority of VM users want to run OSX or Windows variants? Linux doesn't have a coherent single image either so a grab doesn't work as well.
Haiku though? Nobody would recognise it so it wouldn't really illustrate much.
Well, that's all good news. I had feared that I wouldn't get the free upgrade because I bought mine just before they officially announced v8. Normally I would not have bothered but v6 was apparently incompatible for Mountain Lion so I bought my upgrade to v7 for peanuts since I still had a license for v1 of VMWare Fusion.
By and large I'm not that interested in upgrading Parallels - it's run fine for years and I'm not really bothered about the extra features. It's also one of those programs that I use infrequently but it is damned useful when I do need it.
By and large I'm not that interested in upgrading Parallels - it's run fine for years and I'm not really bothered about the extra features. It's also one of those programs that I use infrequently but it is damned useful when I do need it.