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mark88 said:
I don't understand how you can hate a second button? it's just another button, if you don't like it, don't press it?

I wouldn't care about it being there, if it didn't get in the way of my left-clicks. Too many times I've clicked both buttons simultaneously. It's a pain.

I suppose it doesn't help that my laptop (a Compaq) buttons seem to take about 20 lb. of pressure to click. :mad:
 
tmornini said:
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This is not a workable solution at $1000/year. I would consider it on a day-by-day basis when I'm nearing the end of a project, but I need something every day and don't want to shell out $20 each day. That would be ridiculous when I can simply use virtual machines of my own.
 
SangLad said:
Now I am hearing the Intel Mac Mini Core Due has been disabled for VT. Is this correct? What's up with that? I mean, is this some minor fault on Apple? or was it intentionally on Apple's part?

Did anyone using Intel Mac Mini Duo installed Parallel's software? If so, how is the performance? Please write what your Intel Mac Mini Core Duo spec is (i.e. how much RAM and etc.).

Thanks!

I have a Mac Mini Core Duo, and I've been Alpha testing Parallels for a couple of weeks. Whenever I start Parallels on my Mini, it tells me VT is installed, but disabled. You click okay and go on. As for performance, Windows XP running under Parallels "seems" faster than XP on my Thinkpad T41. My Mini has 2GB RAM and is booting from an external Firewire 320GB 7200 RPM drive.

Tom C.
 
mrzippy said:
I didn't think the current Core processor (Yonah) supported virtualization, this feature was to be added with Merom.

This is incorrect. The Merom/Conroe update does bring a couple of things to the table, however SSE2/SSE3, the execute disable bit, Speedstep, and dynamic cache sizing are already built into Yonah. New with Merom/Conroe is an improved version of Speedstep (Intelligent Power Capability), improved handling of MMX/SSE instructions (Advanced Digital Media Boost), 64 bit support, and other features that provide a 20% boost in processing power when compared to Yonah running at the same clock speed.

For info this with regard to (Core Duo), read page 7 and 8 of this document.
http://download.intel.com/design/mobile/datashts/30922101.pdf
 
bubbalwz said:
Another feature I would like to see (and it may already be possible) is for Parallels to use a native installation (i.e. BootCamp installed copy) of Windows so users could boot into native mode and get full Windows performance, or boot the same copy of Windows up via Parallels. This way you wouldn't have to maintain applications/updates/etc in a Virtual image as well as a native image. I realize there would be issues with differing drivers, but this should be fairly easy to work around.
That's basically what I was speculating yesterday may be what Apple really has up their sleeves for Leopard. Virtualize when you need to, dual boot for additional performance. They didn't say that boot camp was all they were planning for Leopard, in fact the page is worder very awkwardly.

In addition, what would be really cool would be to be able to "fast OS switch" between native installs of the two OSes. This could be something like recovering from hibernation/"Safe Sleep."

Apple has a huge advantage over others in that the hardware's fairly controlled and thus the video, network and sound drivers used for the XP install could be optimized to work both on bare metal and in the virtual environment. The OS X drivers too could be optimized to allow the virtual instance of XP to talk almost directly to the video memory in the window where it is running, just like games do.

B
 
cann11 said:
Before 10.4 (or was it 10.3) broke vp 6 for me I was running windows on my powerbook, now I only run vp 2004 on my windows machines.

Each virtural machine showed up with a seperate IP on my router, so I'm not sure what you are getting at.

Anyway it is best to access the sites by the server name vs. the ip.
You should not configure vp to use virtual nat however.

Thanks, yes, since I'm running VPC 7 / OS X 10.4.6 on my Powerbook and cannot access my sites on OS X by name or ip because the VM uses the same IP (I've tried changing it manually in Windows to no avail) --- it's pretty useless.

In order to access them by name, I would of course need a separate IP, so that's basically why I asked about separate IP addresses. Anyone know if Parallels Workstation gives a separate IP address from the host?
 
LagunaSol said:
I wouldn't care about it being there, if it didn't get in the way of my left-clicks. Too many times I've clicked both buttons simultaneously. It's a pain.

Hmm.. how do you manage to drive a car? At least my car has an accelerator pedal (right) and a break (left). Well, since I'm European, I've also a third pedal, the clutch.
 
alltribz said:
Is anyone else having problems mounting dmg file. I tried to use disk utility to repair it also but no chance. Is there a mirror somewhere with a previous dmg file. I am trying: Parallels-2-1.1.1658.24-Mac.dmg

Same here, must be heavy traffic. Nevertheless, it happens on paralells' site as well as macupdate. Strange. Oh well, I'll just wait for someone to post a torrent...
 
dylansm said:
Thanks, yes, since I'm running VPC 7 / OS X 10.4.6 on my Powerbook and cannot access my sites on OS X by name or ip because the VM uses the same IP (I've tried changing it manually in Windows to no avail) --- it's pretty useless.

In order to access them by name, I would of course need a separate IP, so that's basically why I asked about separate IP addresses. Anyone know if Parallels Workstation gives a separate IP address from the host?

When I WAS running vp6 it seemed the same as vp 2004 on windows, I doubt that changed under vp7, And each vm had its own IP on the router. How are you connected on your network. Are you using a nat supported router. If so you should set each vm to get its dhcp ip from the server (ie . the router).
Does the mac version have virtual nat, this didn't work for me but it might work for you.
 
Can you use the max resolution on a MBP? I need to do some FreeBSD stuff, and would rather use gnome then just the terminal so I'd need a higher resolution. This looks great, can't wait to get it installed.
 
I have just installed the Parallels Workstation on my MacBook Pro, and then proceeded to install Windows 2000... I don't own a copy of Windows XP, otherwise I would have installed that. It works fine, and is pretty fast. Faster than any beige tower running Windows 2000 that I've ever owned. The Parallels tools for Windows allows for a proper video and network driver, etc. Just a couple of comments for those who need to know:

1. You can't install Windows from a physical CD (yet). The option exists but is blanked out in the beta version... perhaps this is something being worked on. So I created an .iso using Disk Utility and installed Windows that way. Worked fine, and very fast installation.

2. WiFi chipset isn't currently supported. So you'll need to use an Ethernet connection for the Windows virtual machine to have access to the network. This means it's only really practical in a desktop-like environment... my visions of having Windows inside a virtual machine while I'm sipping a latté at an Internet cafe (with WiFi) are still someways off...

But this is a good start. The Parallels tools for the PC mouse driver is great... I can seamlessly move my mouse from Windows back into OS X without clicking anywhere... very cool.

Try the BETA everyone, it's a free 30-day trial!!
 
dylansm said:
This is not a workable solution at $1000/year. I would consider it on a day-by-day basis when I'm nearing the end of a project, but I need something every day and don't want to shell out $20 each day. That would be ridiculous when I can simply use virtual machines of my own.
Holy crap. :eek: They want THAT much? No thanks. It wouldn't cost that much (after 2 years of 1K/yr, anyway) to purchase all the OS variations, a separate computer to run them on, some virtualization, and pay a programmer to get it all to do the same thing (if you can't do it yourself).
 
weg said:
Hmm.. how do you manage to drive a car? At least my car has an accelerator pedal (right) and a break (left). Well, since I'm European, I've also a third pedal, the clutch.

Well, fortunately the three pedals in my car (a European car, coincidentally) have more than a paper-thin gap between them. :)

Oh, and I personally happen to use two feet to work the three pedals. Maybe I'm just weird that way. ;)
 
My best guess is that Apple is planning to have the virtualized PC component boot off of the Boot Camp installation in 10.5 without having to physically boot unless absolutely necessary.

Kind of a hybrid between the dual-boot billion file install and a single hard file virtual PC solution...

balamw said:
That's basically what I was speculating yesterday may be what Apple really has up their sleeves for Leopard. Virtualize when you need to, dual boot for additional performance. They didn't say that boot camp was all they were planning for Leopard, in fact the page is worder very awkwardly.
 
bretm said:
Outlook on the Mac is called Entourage now. It's supposed to link into all the same stuff as Outlook on the Windows side.

It's supposed to. But it doesn't. I can't use the Office email client in OSX and access all the windows features.

Bummer that the VT thing doesn't work on the duo mini, I'd like to hear the full story on why it's disabled and if there's any way to work around it.
 
Just one more quick note. Installing Windows 2000 or XP is the easy part.... but then you have to install all the Microsoft updates and such. For Windows 2000 you will have to install all sorts of major updates and crap, and will have to reboot about 7 times... fortunately this means rebooting the virtual machine, which happens very quickly, and not your Mac. I just keep working away with my Mac programs while Windows does it hairy reboot. :)

For Mac-heads everywhere, you also have to remember that any default installation of Windows is *not* secure and you will need to secure it with a firewall, anti-virus and more. Windows XP has a basic firewall built-in as of Service Pack 2, but you still absolutely need anti-virus and anti-spyware, and more.

While it's unlikely that security vulnerabilities in Windows (in a virtual machine) can affect your Mac directly, it can sure affect your network connection - and make your ISP very angry at you - if you get a worm or virus that does bad things, like put you on a botnet. Rest assured, if you install your Windows and are not behind a firewall or router, you may already be infected with a virus or worm by the time the installation is finished. I am *not* kidding, this is a serious threat. So please pay attention to how and where you install your Windows inside a virtual machine, and stay safe!! Windows is a very different world from OS X, and without the proper security software and settings, it's much more dangerous...
 
Just think of the implications of this

Apple now makes the ONLY computer that can natively run the 3 major OS's(legally and efficiently).

Major bragging rights
 
dubnluvn said:
Apple now makes the ONLY computer that can natively run the 3 major OS's(legally and efficiently).
Yeah, but that's only 'cause they won't let their OS run on anything but their hardware. ;) (And rightly so).

B
 
well, so much for the beta...

I've done 6 partial installs. I've tried growing disks, raw disks, high speed, normal speed, vt on/off, it doesn't matter. When I install windows it either forces my MacBook Pro to reboot, or it gives me that multi-language screen of death.

Sometimes it recognizes my DVD drive, sometimes it doesn't.

A few times I got so far as to have Windows completely install, then it went to reboot and it said that the Virtual disk was corrupted.

I guess I'll try again when there's a new, more-stable version.
 
milo said:
It's supposed to. But it doesn't. I can't use the Office email client in OSX and access all the windows features.
You're right it's not even close to the same thing. Outlook uses MAPI to access Exchange Servers, while Entourage uses IMAP+HTTP to get access to (most) of the same information. The good news is that Entourage is more interoperable/industry standards based, the bad news is that MAPI/Exchange is the de-facto practical standard.

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Installing from CD

snak-pak said:
1. You can't install Windows from a physical CD (yet). The option exists but is blanked out in the beta version... perhaps this is something being worked on. So I created an .iso using Disk Utility and installed Windows that way. Worked fine, and very fast installation.

Actually you can...

Use the checkbox to disable and re-enable the CD option. Then select the CD radio button. In the text box, specify "/dev/rdisk1" (no quotes).
 
Macnoviz said:
You're absolutely right: I was thinking the exact same thing, we need something like Rosetta for windows apps, that way you have windows applications running at native speeds, and because there is no windows, there are no security breaches in your OS, and no viruses.
This may seem improbable, or even impossible, but that would be the "nec plus ultra" for Mac users
I have an interesting idea. i have no idea if it's even possible or probable. BUT, one of the main objections with Native windows apps within OS X is the potential for viruses. What is OS X included a way for a user to say "I want to install this windows app.... repackage it into OS X format (a single file that contains all the app data" and OS X includes a way to read that file. Makes sence to me. I have no idea if it's possible.
 
Effing Sweet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay.

A) I told my dad to buy the crap out of Apple stock yesterday b/c of BootCamp so this morning he did. They are up 4 points as of 3:14.

B) FREAGIN AWESOME!!!!! I downloaded it and am currently running it and its... well... the fastest I've ever seen XP run, ironically.

C) I have no clue why I just bought windows. Oh well. HAHA.
 
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