Ben Rudolph from Parallels responds to his users' questions about the Parallels products.  Here are the latest lists of questions and answers from Ben's Blog site.  If you have other questions that need answering, and you can't find answers online... ASK BEN!  Jump over to his Blog site and leave him your questions.  He is offering a great service, and I suggest you take him up on it.

Will you possibly be supporting multiple ethernet interfaces?

- Lasse Kim C.

We sure will. It's been on our roadmap for the next version for a while now. Support for multiple NICs means tha you can pass a LAN line straight into a VM, giving it direct access to the 'net with no bridging. Great for heavy VM users!


Hey Ben -

I needed to reboot my Windows virtual machine the other day, but couldn't hit Ctrl+Alt+Delete to do it. So, I had to do a hard restart. How do I Ctrl+Alt+Delete in a virtual machine so I don't have to do a hard restart?

Thanks!
Caroline B.

Click "VM" in the menu bar, then go to "send keys". You'll see a number of common keystroke combinations there; just click the one you want and you'll be good to go.


Do I have to use the "Clone VM" function if I want to copy a VM?

- Anoynmous

No, but it makes your life easier, as it will let you copy the .pvs and .hdd file directly from within Parallels. Doing it manually by going into your library will accomplish the same thing, but will take more clicks.

I recommend cloning or copying your VM before expanding your hard drive and before running Compressor. It'll give you a back-up copy in case there's an error with either process.