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Comparing Parallels Desktop 7 to VMware Fusion 4 Series – Part 6

October 31, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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Parallels Mobile

This is part 6 of my series comparing Parallels Desktop 7 to VMware Fusion 4, and in this article and video I am going show you a significant product feature that is unique to Parallels, which is something called Parallels Mobile.     As an optional component, Parallels has created an iOS App for both your iPhone and iPad that allow you to run your virtual machine on the iOS Device and remotely control your Mac desktop!

What makes this new feature neat is that you no longer need to be in front of your Mac to run say Windows applications, and if you want to visit Flash websites on your iPad, Parallels Mobile give you the ability to go to those websites to see that content with sound.   This mobile app works both over WiFi and 3G, and even allows you to access your computer remotely from behind secure firewalls.   If that were not enough, you can even Cut and Paste content from or to any Windows application to the iOS Clipboard and back!

Also don’t forget to enter to win my FREE IPAD 2 16GB WIFI Giveaway.   To enter all you have to do is go to my YouTube channel and SUBSCRIBE!   Watch this video below for a more detailed explanation and if you have topics you are interested in please let me know.

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Comparing Parallels Desktop 7 to VMware Fusion 4 Series – Part 4

October 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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Migrating from VMware Fusion 3 to Parallels Desktop 7

This is part 4 of my series comparing Parallels Desktop 7 to VMware Fusion 4, and in this article and video I am going walk you through the steps necessary to take your VMware fusion 3 virtual machines and move them over to Parallels Desktop 7.   Built into the Parallels Wizard is a migration tool that will walk you through the steps necessary to get that Virtual Machine up and running again but within Parallels Desktop.   The process is fairly simple however there are a few things before you start and once you complete you might want to consider.   The article and video will explain what those items are and the video will guide you through doing this process on your own environment.

Before I start the migration there are several things you should consider and by checking and following these steps the process ends up being a series of clicks and waiting for the migration process to complete.

Preparing to Migrate

  1. Check  available disk space where the virtual machine files are located to make sure you have at least double the size of the VMware virtual machine to give parallels room to do the migration.   Parallels does not destroy or delete the original file as part of this migration, which is something you will manually need to do.
  2. If you have created Snapshots within the VMware virtual machine, then use the SnapShot manager to delete all of the all snapshots only keeping the current active version.
  3. Within VMware and the virtual machine running, go into the control panel in Windows, and un-install the VMware Fusion tools from the virtual machine you are about to migrate.
  4. When prompted to reboot the virtual machine as part of removing the VMware tools, do not restart the environment, but instead shutdown the windows environment.

Clean-up after the migration

 Once the migration is complete Parallels Desktop will automatically configure the Windows environment to run in what Parallels calls Coherence mode, meaning the desktop environment disappears and Windows apps run like Mac apps.    You can change this back to Single Window mode if you prefer to see the Windows environment running in it’s own self contained window.

  1. Make sure you test the Parallels Virtual Machine for several days along with the migrated applications and data to make sure everything works as expected.
  2. Use the VMware Fusion uninstall program to completely remove Fusion from your Mac, that is assuming you have no other Fusion virtual mMachines that you need to use or migrate.
  3. By default, Fusion will store the virtual machine files in your Documents folder, within a folder called Virtual Machines, go ahead and delete these files once you have both tested and confirmed there are no other Fusion VM’s that you need to either keep or migrate.
  4. Lastly, it is possible that Windows may require re-activation by the Windows servers.  If this happens have your product key handy and you should be good to go!

 

Remember don’t forget to enter to win my FREE IPAD 2 16GB WIFI Giveaway.   To enter all you have to do is go to my YouTube channel and SUBSCRIBE!   Watch this video below for a more detailed explanation and if you have topics you are interested in please let me know.   Enjoy!

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Comparing Parallels Desktop 7 to VMware Fusion 4 Series – Part 2

October 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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Full Screen Application Mode

This is part 2 of my series comparing Parallels Desktop 7 to VMware Fusion 4, and in this article and video I am going to look at Full Screen Application mode.   On OS X Lion on of the top 10 features Apple noted was the ability to make any application run in full screen mode so that the user could eliminate all of the distractions that one faces when running multiple applications or have many other windows open at the same time.

For both Parallels and VMware both applications have incorporated the new Full Screen Application mode supported in OSX Lion,  however VMware has not implemented this mode of operation fully.    When you go into full screen mode in VMware the windows zooms to full screen, however the Apple menu at the top of the screen and the OSX Dock will still be visible.    However when running Parallels Desktop 7, they have taken extra steps in the interface so that windows applications truly run in full screen mode like their Mac counterparts.

Through these types of enhancements Parallels continues to show its leadership in the virtualization space and maturity in their most recent release.   The video below will show you explicitly how the two operate in OS X Lion Full Screen Application mode.

Remember don’t forget to enter to win my FREE IPAD 2 16GB WIFI Giveaway.   To enter all you have to do is go to my YouTube channel and SUBSCRIBE!   Watch this video below for a more detailed explanation and if you have topics you are interested in please let me know.   Enjoy!

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