Mac live desktop 6.0 for mac#

It's quite easy to import a VM machine from arch-rival VMware – any VMware OS images on your drive will already be listed in the Parallels Virtual Machines List, ready for conversion.

Of particular interest, we'd point out the ability to pause a Windows VM running from Boot Camp use of Mac keyboard shortcuts in Windows VMs and a redesigned USB connection dialog box, which can be set to not bug you every time you plug a new USB device into your Mac. There looks to be dozens of minor additions and embellishments in Parallels Desktop 6 for Mac. Nevertheless, running 64-bit VMs is not an issue, nor assigning more than 4GB of RAM to one, providing you have a recent Mac and enough memory installed. The main app has been updated, but some of its associated processes such as the Windows WDDM display driver, the display server and the Parallels client app are all still 32-bit. There's a proud boast that Parallels now has '64-bit performance', although that's not the entire story. We already rated the previous update to Parallels 5 highly, thanks to unique features such as support for multi-touch trackpads (in Windows VMs at least), along with hardware-accelerated graphics effects in Linux.

Mac live desktop 6.0 for mac#

The latest version of Parallels Desktop 6 for Mac promises more speed to what is already the fastest virtualization package available, along with a few more features and enhancements. And there's very little hit on performance, making the experience – in full-screen view especially – essentially identical to being at the original computer.

Parallels Desktop 6 for Mac lets you run any IBM x86-based operating system, from Windows to Linux to UNIX, on Mac Intel hardware.