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December 31, 2006

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Parallels Beta 3 now ready for download

Posted Dec. 31, ’06, 9:01 AM PT by Derik DeLong
Category | Windows

Parallels I must applaud Parallels for not resting during this holiday break. They’ve released another beta. It’s a bug fix release that doesn’t seem to add any new features.

  • Coherence now handles “round” windows like Windows Media Player or Winamp correctly.
  • Fullscreen and Coherence mode on secondary monitor fixed.
  • Guest pixel size calculation was fixed – applications like MS Access or MS PowerPoint should handle graphs correctly.
  • Guest Linux screen resolutions in 24 bit mode fixed.
  • Possiblity to switch off Command+ZXCV mapping or swap Control and Command keys introduced (the feature was requested by a number of beta-testers)
  • Several USB 2.0 fixes – more bulk devices to work since now. The work on web cameras and other isochronous devices is still in progress.

Unfortunately, it didn’t fix my problems and I still can’t use my Boot Camp partition/disk. I would really hate to see this problem continue into full release versions. Until Parallels is full Boot Camp speed, being able to use a single partition in both environments is a must for anyone not interested in maintaining two separate installations.


3 Comments

jsweet said:

I have successfully enabled Bootcamp support with Beta 2 and Beta 3. What was your specific issue?

December 31, 2006 10:03 AM
Derik Author Profile Page said:

I wrote a post a little while back about it, but basically, it tells me either "Can't mount image Boot Camp" or "Error loading operating system".

December 31, 2006 12:08 PM
jsweet said:

Hmmm...well it works fine on my iMac and MacBook. Originally there were limits on FAT32 partitions, but I tried that on one machine as of Beta 2 and it works fine now. NTFS also worked for me from the begining. You do have to be sure you don't have Parallel's for Boot Camp loaded before booting in Beta 2 or Beta 3 and you still get promoted for Admin authorizatin on start which is kind of annoying. I personally had a boot error one time in previous beta, but I used F8 to boot from last known good config to correct. My friend also noted that he was having problems on Mac Pro, which may have unique issues, but he has not tried using the latest build yet.

December 31, 2006 2:34 PM

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