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Thursday, March 23, 2006

Parallels Workstation 2.1 Released

This is a free upgrade to Parallels version 2.0 owners, for anyone else it is just $49.99 per license @ http://www.parallels.com

New features in 2.1 include:

  • A completely redesigned, visually stunning user interface
  • Stronger virtual machine performance, stability and isolation
  • USB support enables users to access a wide range of popular USB devices like flash drives and PDAs directly in virtual machines.
  • "Suspend and Resume" functionality that lets users instantly suspend a virtual machine's state and resume it at a later time without having to completely shut down and start up a guest operating system.
  • Support for Physical Address Extension (PAE) allows Workstation 2.1 to run on PAE-enabled primary OSes with up to 4GB of RAM.
  • Wireless networking support in Windows frees users from network cables. Now, users can connect virtual machines to the internet via any WiFi connection.
  • Stronger support for Intel VT® technology and a more complex virtual processor significantly improve performance of a wide range of applications running in virtual machines.
  • An improved, redesigned Parallels Tools package for Windows that provides useful add-on features that let each user customize their Parallels Workstation experience.
  • New tools include guest/host time synchronization and complete support for normal video modes in Windows 95, 98 and Me.
  • Support for dual-monitor mode enables users to export a virtual machine to a secondary display
  • New "Compact Hard Disk" feature that removes unused space from expanding virtual machine hard drives, increasing the free disk space of the primary OS
  • Primary and guest OS support for SuSE Linux 10, and guest OS support for Sun Solaris
  • Improved OS/2 guest OS performance
  • Fixes for Workstation 2.0 and 2.1 beta bugs that were found by our customers and downloaders

Posted By: Jim on Thursday, March 23, 2006
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3 Comments:

  • You know 'warez' means pirated software right?

    This site's name (and domain name) sounds like it's some virtualization software piracy site...

    By Anonymous, at March 24, 2006 10:32 AM  

  • I know... But I'm using it in the context of "stuff." I don't condone use of pirated software, nor do I participate in such activity. Hope I didn't disappoint you when you got here :) and more importantly, I hope you found some good info.

    Thanks!

    Jim

    By Jim, at March 24, 2006 11:16 AM  

  • yes, this is an excellent site! I really appreciate using your 'Generic LiveCD' image. Lots of great info too!
    -Eric
    (heh - to return here I did 'search' on vmwarez rather than run the risk of getting cyber-jacked: who knows what's on vmwarz.com. . . :-) )

    By Anonymous, at April 03, 2006 5:13 PM  

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