Big Brother is watching you!
Windows games at full speed
A video at YouTube appeared showing an internal build of VMWare for Mac
with full DirectX 8.1 virtualization. VMWare team is currently working to
bring support for DirectX 9, and therefore support for the Windows Vista
Aero interface. Parallels also promised to implement DirectX virtualization.
Check out the video
Parallels – Boot your physical Windows partition
Sherry Haibara has found a way to boot physical Windows partitions in Parallels,
running inside a MacOS X86 install! Congrats! Here is the tutorial:
Get the latest Parallels beta here
Open Parallels and choose to create a new virtual machine.
It’ll ask you what HD do you want to use. Choose Boot Camp.
Continue the setup, but do not run the Virtual Machine.
When finished, close Parallels.
Use a Text Editor to edit your virtual machine configuration file (*.pvs).
Find the line that says:
“Disk 0:0 image = Boot Camp” and replace it with this
“Disk 0:0 image = Boot Camp;diskxsy”
where diskxsy is your Windows/Linux/Other OS “Boot Camp” disk.
disk0s1 is valid for instance.
Save and exit.
Start up Parallels and launch the Virtual Machine. Enjoy!
source: InsanelyMac
Parallels help Mac OS on a generic PC
“SWsoft’s Beloussov says that this spring, Parallels will upgrade its software further,
in a way that by coincidence will make it easier to run Mac OS on a non-Apple computer.
He also insists that is not deliberate, but just a consequence of the nature of the
technology, especially now that Intel (Charts) builds virtualization technology into its chips.”
Source:money.cnn.com/2007/01/19/technology/fastforward_parallels.fortune