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Parallels Desktop 7 for Mac Allows You to Run Windows and Even Another Copy of Lion

if you have fusion buy the upgrade for 29

Get 7.0 for free. Beats 49 for the upgrade price.
 
wilhoitm said:
Has anyone downloaded Parallels Desktop version 7 yet or do we have to wait until September 6 before it is available?

When I go to buy the $79 version, Parallels 6 is put into my shopping cart.
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Yes, go to http://www.parallels.com/products/desktop/seven/ and click download (I've got a license already) and you'll get Parallels 7. If you have a license, enter it into Parallels after you install it, if no license just click "gimme a trial serial" and it will email you a trial serial.
 
Greedy b@stards are now charging $4.99 (soon to be $19.99) for their iOS app that used to be free since its introduction in 2008. Kicking myself for not installing it sooner.....now I won't be.
 
I just installed Parallels 7 (after backing up Parallels 6 and my VMs). So far it does what it says on the tin. Full Screen Mode works well in Lion and sleep and resume are faster than Parallels 6.
 
Upgraded to Version 7 today and I have to admit it is a major improvement over 6. I am using it to access my Boot Camp Windows 7. $49.99 is definitely steep for an upgrade price but this release does add some really awesome new features, particularly the ability to run VMs of Lion as well as the performance improvements.

I installed the Parallels Mobile app as well, mostly because I was intrigued by the ability to use Flash apps. Scrolling is a major pain in the butt in Firefox and IE though. Supposedly you can just tap and hold with two fingers and then swipe to scroll so long as there are scroll bars available. It doesn't appear to work with scroll bars in Flash apps though. I hope they improve the gestures.

Thank god they didn't try to charge separately for the iPad and iPhone apps. That would have been the last straw.
 
fhall1 said:
Greedy b@stards are now charging $4.99 (soon to be $19.99) for their iOS app that used to be free since its introduction in 2008. Kicking myself for not installing it sooner.....now I won't be.
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Damn those developers for trying to get paid for their hard work.
 
cgc said:
Yes, go to http://www.parallels.com/products/desktop/seven/ and click download (I've got a license already) and you'll get Parallels 7. If you have a license, enter it into Parallels after you install it, if no license just click "gimme a trial serial" and it will email you a trial serial.
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Thanks a million, I could not wait until after the holiday weekend to try Parallels out, I have been using VMware to a virtual version of Lion. ;)

Can anyone confirm that Pixelmator works in the Parallels virtual Lion VM? ( In VMWare 3.1.3 Pixelmator crashes because of the Open GL calls. )

Also does iWork run in the Parallels virtual Lion VM? ( iWork does not work when using VMware 3.1.3, you can run it but the documents are not rendered so that you can see them inside the window. )
 
what version of chrome os comes with PD7?

I have PD6 and Im only able to use chrome os version 5.
 
Poncho said:
I'm installing it now. Have a licence for Version 5 only, but did a clean install of Lion and left it off (because 5 doesn't work on Lion). You download and install version 7, it asks for the key, then a splash screen asks for the serial to your earlier version. Then it does its thing.

Then I put a disc I made of Lion in the optical drive and it is sucking that into itself to make a virtual Lion machine. Why? because I decided to keep Lion as simple as possible but now I can have another version of Lion with all my crapware and zillions of photo apps I bought but never used, just a click n launch away.

Plus, I was really bored tonight...
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Was going to try your method out Poncho - I bought Version 5, never installed it, then upgraded to Lion. Now I want to install Parallels, and find myself with a problem. Parallels tech support says the downloaded upgrade version of 7 will not install unless version 5 or 6 is installed already (they told me to downgrade back to Snow Leopard, install 5, then upgrade back to Lion, then install the Version 7 upgrade). Your post gave me hope to try the upgrade all alone.

Then I went over to Amazon - and Version 6 is $45 for the full boxed version. Parallels offers a free upgrade to Version 7 if you purchased 6 after Aug. 1, 2011. You only have to fill out the form. So with no tax and free shipping (I have Amazon Prime 2 day shipping), I'm ahead $5 on this upgrade nonsense. Guess I'm out a few days to do this, but I've procrastinated this long, what's a few more days.

Poncho - thanks for the nice post about this.
 
It's important to remember that you have to have Lion running as your Host OS if you want to run Lion as your Guest OS in Parallels Desktop 7
 
Slow boot / shutdown

So has anyone who upgraded noticed their Mac / laptop taking longer to boot / shutdown ?? My boot time increased more than double, same with shutdown and it's been traced back to Parallels 7 services. There's a thread ongoing over in the Parallels forum about it . . .
 
jpearn said:
So has anyone who upgraded noticed their Mac / laptop taking longer to boot / shutdown ?? My boot time increased more than double, same with shutdown and it's been traced back to Parallels 7 services. There's a thread ongoing over in the Parallels forum about it . . .
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I dont use parallels, but I have lion setup for verbose boot & shutdown, and can say that well over 1/2 of my boot/shutdown time is from vmware Fusion 3 services.
 
Was anyone able to get a hold of the student version of Parallels 7 for Mac?

Their website says to contact your "authorized Education reseller" for this purpose.

I called them up and they said that they have no idea when a student version will be available from their website.

My college does not have it yet, I hope they (or the Parallels website) get it soon...
 
MUST run Lion OS X as Host to run Lion OS X as Guest OS

Christina1971 said:
I'm wondering this, myself.
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Just so everyone knows, you HAVE to have Lion running as your host in order for your to run Lion as your guest OS in your Parallels Desktop 7 VM.

Here's a Knowledge Base article from their website with more info: http://kb.parallels.com/en/112121

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Navdakilla said:
Will this run solid on a base 13 MBP 2010?
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The best place to get answers for these type of pre-purchase questions are with Parallels themselves. ALL Non-Technical Customer Service inquiries are free to ask.

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talmy said:
My question about 7 is, since it now supports Lion's full screen mode, will it still support the old full screen mode so I can run Windows full screen on one display and Lion full screen on another?

My Parallels history -- used since version 1. About version 3 I tried Fusion as well since Parallels support had (or should I say has) always been shoddy but found Fusion less well integrated into OS X and ran the apps I was concerned about slower. I do use VirtualBox for Linux VMs.

In general I buy only full versions, not upgrades, and wait for the full versions to be on sale for less cost than the upgrade price.
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From what I've seen so far there is currently an issue with Full Screen Mode but I know they are working on it. They posted this Knowledge Base article about it: http://kb.parallels.com/en/112176

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ichaddy said:
Testing Lion.

I have installed and run Parallels 7 on Snow Leopard. Works wonderfully quick. My question is;

If I buy and download Lion from the Mac Store can I install and run it on this (Snow Leopard installed) Parallels?
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You need to be running Lion as your Host OS in order for your to virtualize Lion in your Parallels Desktop 7 VM. Read up on it in this Knowledge Base article they posted on their Support website: http://kb.parallels.com/en/112176

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JRG1392 said:
The article says Parallels 7 is available today as an upgrade. Does that mean that I can just go ahead and buy Parallels 6 and upgrade? And if so can I just buy Parallels 6, not actually install it, and go straight to parallels 7 or does it upgrade within the program? Thanks.
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The full version of Parallels Desktop 7 actually came out today!
 
Silentwave said:
So, if we were to run a copy of Windows 7 in Parallels on Lion in a Parallels VM in Lion...which was itself being run in a Parallels VM on Lion as well, would Leo DiCaprio show up?
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Did you copy that from another forum? I read that 4 days ago :)
 
VMWare Fusion 3.1.3 runs bootcamp windows 7 very well in MACOSXL with adobe apps running normal memory; but then sometimes there is a weird message of "bootcamp vmdk not found. Reason: Resource Busy". The funny thing is that the message goes away after waiting for some time or trying a few times more (Don't know which one...). But had to repartition into a complex arrangement for it to find out my bootcamp with a DATA NTFS partition sandwitched between MACOSXL and BOOTCAMP NTFS partition. As MACOSX cannot detect bootcamps beyond 4th partition; had to remove recovery partition from MBA for Fusion to get bootcamp virtualized...
 
Spectrum said:
Exactly! When will Apple acknowledge there are users out there that require Rosetta for some old apps? It's not rocket science to realise that people have old files that need old software to open them!
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Apple made it rather clear that Rosetta was a stop gap to give the 3rd parties a bit more time to upgrade their stuff. they didn't. That isn't Apple's fault.

Nor is it there fault that software like Parallels doesn't support using regular versions of the software, only server versions
 
Amazon has Parallels 6 for $45. Parallels is offering free upgrades to 7 for anybody that bought 6 after Aug. 1, up to October something. I did the whole deal, sent in the electronic upgrade request, and within about 10 minutes had the key for version 7. So that's $5 cheaper (assuming you have free shipping at Amazon) than buying the upgrade. Kind of a stupid path really, but it works.

The upgrade from 6 to 7 was super simple and quick.

Everything worked as planned.

Now, if only installing Win 7 was that easy.
 
Parallel Desktop 7 Trouble: Network Problems

Hey there,

I purchased Parallel Desktop 7 last week, and am already finding trouble with it.

I bought it on the grounds that i would be able to play games such as age of empires etc, against my flat mates via network connection.

I have installed windows xp, and aoe plays fine however i cant connect to their ad-hoc network nor create one myself.

Is anyone able to help me here please??? I am regretting buying this product so much.

I hope this is something i am overlooking, and not much of a hassle at all. Maybe a driver update etc??

I am running a Macbook Pro, version 10.6.8, 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
 
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