Parallels announces the release of the Beta 5 version of its Workstation 2.1 for Mac OS X. With over 100,000+ people now participating, the product is getting more stable and offering more solutions!
Improvements and fixes in Beta 5:
- Introduced USB support. Connect your favorite USB devices directly to a virtual machine! Learn more about USB Support...
- Introduced shared folders. Share files between Mac OS X and any Windows XP or Windows 2003 guest virtual machine! Learn more about Shared Folders Support...
- Support for dynamic screen resolutions. When a guest OS is selected, a list of available screen resolutions is dynamically populated with primary OS resolutions.
- Fixed keyboard mapping problems
- Fixed mouse pointer lag problem
- Better sound support
- Fixed problems with sleeping/waking up the primary OS when a VM is running
- Introduced the ability to resize a guest when switching to fullscreen mode
- Added optional "transition cube" animation for transitioning to and from fullscreen mode
- Fixed several kernel panics
- Added default network adapter for bridged mode
- Sound lag fixed
And...
Known Issues Include:
- USB support problems:
- Right now, only USB flash drives work with virtual machines. USB device support will be expanded soon.
- You must eject the USB device from MacOSX before to connecting it to the guest OS
- The Shared Folders feature is not available for Windows 2000 guests, but will be soon.
- It is not possible to create subfolders in the Shared Folder inside a guest OS.
- It is not possible to remove a "read-only" file flag in the Shared Folder inside a Guest OS.
Download Beta 5, here.