Comments on ‘Parallels enhances Windows-on-Mac tool’

Classic 

amusing to see that they chose World of Warcraft for the screenshot - one of the PC games which actually comes in a native Mac version!

MacOS in a VM? 

Is there any way of getting MacOS to run in a virtual machine on a Mac?

Parallels can't, neither can VMWare Fusion.

Doh! 

Guess who bought the old version on Wednesday and they released this on Thursday - doh!

And the question nobody seems to be able to answer... 

What versions of DirectX and OpenGL is it supporting? The DX8/OGL1.1 other software supports isn't much good for modern games.... (you can still run HL2 of course, but it's a far cry from a DX9c implementation...)

Vice versa 

When will they allow the operation of a Mac VM on a windows box???

fao chris kimpton 

just download the new version and intall it, should work with your existing key

if the pc version is anywhere near as good as the mac version then vmware should be very very scared!!! vmware fusion i know is still beta but parallels has come from pretty much nowhere and taking the mac world by storm.

god bless parallels give vmware a run for its money on the pc dont let them rest on their laurels

Re. the question nobody seems able to answer... 

staff

Andrew:

Parallels Desktop 3.0 supports OpenGL 1.5 and DirectX 9, Parallels says.

No you can't ... 

run a Mac in a VM on another machine - well not legally anyway !

There is a project somewhere that claims to have the Mac OS running on generic hardware. It required some fiddling to defeat the kernel code that checks for genuine Apple hardware I believe. Even if it works, it is expressely forbidden by the software licence.

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