At 5:00 PM -0700 9/6/06, Greg Merritt wrote:
> Did a little bit of poking around... but it's unclear
to me
> whether or not Parallels needs an update to run on the
new Core 2
> Duo iMacs.
While Greg's question doesn't seem to have been
definitively answered
yet, there were several other news items of signifance today
regarding
Parallels Desktop for Macintosh.
- "you can now run Windows Vista Beta as a guest OS
...
Support for Vista is experimental, so you may run into
some device and driver issues ..."
- "support [has been added for running Parallels
under] the
developer builds of OS X Leopard ... the next generation
of OS X, due to launch sometime next year."
- the current "build [of Parallels] offers full
compatibility
with [Apple's dual core Xeon-based] Mac Pro
towers"
For more information, please see the official Parallels
blog posting:
http://parallelsvi
rtualization.blogspot.com/2006/09/desktop-update-rc-compatib
le-with-mac.html
Parallels is a relatively inexpensive (c. $80) commercial
virtualization
software package which makes it possible for Intel-based
Macs to run
various flavors of Windows, Linux, and other OSes written
for Intel
processors. Products such as Parallels make an Intel-based
Macintosh
model a flexible platform for running multiple OSes
simultaneously.
Parallels is roughly equivalent to VMware Workstation for
Windows and
Linux; VMware has also announced
<http
://www.vmware.com/news/releases/mac.html> that it is
developing a
version of that product for Intel-based Macs.
Aron Roberts
Information Services and Technology
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