Parallels or vmware fusion for mac8/3/2023 I left VMWare Tools Installed (I’ve seen other posts which suggest that you should uninstall it).The Parallels documentation doesn’t much describe the nitty gritty of this process, and simply says that you can convert existing virtual machines (from other vendors) to Parallels – so I decided to take them at their word. Also installed in the guest OS is the VMWare Tools service. The VM in question is a Windows 2008 Server Std R2 圆4, with SharePoint 2007 and related development tools installed. In this post I’ll describe my experience of converting a guest OS from VMWare Fusion 4 to Parallels. Keyboard handling for stickey/modifier keys – as an example when you hold CTRL+SHIFT and RIGHT ARROW to select words, then release the CTRL key and move the cursor back (without releasing SHIFT), then the selection you’ve just made is lost and your cursor is back where you started from – Parallels you really must fix this).when not in Coherence or Modality view modes) While Parallels main windows honor Mac OS X preferences for opening in a preferred window (a la Snow Leopard spaces), guest OS container windows do not (i.e.Its coped well with my Macbook Pro having a major meltdown and endured many and increasing spinny beachball kernel panic’s (which is another unrelated story of bad ju ju ending happily with the arrival of a new Intel Series 320 SSD)Ģ problems with Parallels still niggle (an update to version 4.722853 is available which I haven’t yet applied), 1 more so than the other.My guest OS’s are still blindingly fast. ![]() ![]() Suspend and Resume are reliable and consistent.Parallels as a virtualization engine is stable.I’ve been using Parallels Desktop for Mac for nearly 2 months now as my day to day virtualization platform for SharePoint development, having shifted over to Parallels from VMWare Fusion 4, I have to say I’m very happy with the experience and the pro’s I outlined in a previous post have all continued to be borne out
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