{"id":445,"date":"2006-05-23T03:58:46","date_gmt":"2006-05-23T08:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2006\/05\/23\/parallels-workstation-quick-review"},"modified":"2006-11-17T07:36:36","modified_gmt":"2006-11-17T12:36:36","slug":"parallels-workstation-quick-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2006\/05\/23\/parallels-workstation-quick-review","title":{"rendered":"Parallels Workstation Quick Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its pretty amazing. Download, get the trial key, and use the Wizard to create a virtual machine. Defaults to 8GB for Windows, which does seem sensible. When booting it, there will be an error (doh, Windows isn&#8217;t installed); fix this by popping the Windows XP CD into the SuperDrive and it&#8217;ll pick it up. Very smart. It takes about 40 minutes to install Windows XP, which does seem rather long.<\/p>\n<p>VM -&gt; Clone VM is something I think is a winner! I just made a pristine Windows XP install and if it needs to get blown away, I&#8217;ll have the actual VM image sitting around. However, it seems to have hung when I ran it. Redoing it seems to have made the clone. I can&#8217;t reproduce why it hung, however :-(<\/p>\n<p>Another interesting feature is using full-screen guest OSes &#8211; the switching is very &#8220;fast user switching&#8221; like. I&#8217;m impressed. However, moving around from full-screen to not, and accidentally hitting the Expose button on the Mighty Mouse, renders all windows to resize in a way it feels like. There&#8217;s no defined behavior and its kind of annoying.<\/p>\n<p>Some quick notes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ctrl+Click isn&#8217;t right click anymore &#8211; its Shift+Ctrl+Click. Seems it <a href=\"http:\/\/forum.parallels.com\/showthread.php?t=1802\">conflicts with other applications<\/a> and is possibly valid in Windows.<\/li>\n<li>The image format is nice. It doesn&#8217;t take 8GB of space up-front, but instead grows space conservatively as and when you use it.<\/li>\n<li>The .pvs file is a text file, and has a lot of configuration options.<\/li>\n<li>My network (wireless) beyond having a WEP key also has a MAC address authentication module. 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