{"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":"https:\/\/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. It however, by default, conflicts with my MBP&#8217;s MAC address when the WinXP guest wants to get access.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-7b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}