When creating a new Windows virtual machine, this dialog lets you choose the degree of integration with the Mac OS you can change these settings later.
By default, Parallels configures Windows 7 so that your user is the Administrator. This is not a good thing—Windows 7 actually disables the Administrator account by default. Once I was up and running, I ran Office , Adobe Acrobat, and a number of other general application programs. They all ran without troubles and never felt slow in any way. I also tested a number of games which are great ways to stress-test virtual machines. Overall, I was amazed at the performance I saw. Parallels can provide up to 1GB of video RAM, which means that even some newer games with large texture sizes will run reasonably well; I was able to play the demo of Hard Reset , an intensive first person shooter, at decent though not great frame rates.
Even the demo of Call of Duty 4, which ran but with jerky-slow framerates when I last tested it with Parallels 5, is now playable. I used a Bluetooth mouse, a Saitek flightstick, a generic gamepad, and a Logitech Momo force feedback wheel and pedal set, all of which worked fine.
When you connect a USB device, Parallels provides a nice visual dialog box for selecting how it should be assigned, and whether that assignment is permanent or temporary. When connecting a new USB device, you can easily choose who controls it: your Mac, or the active virtual machine. For protection against Windows malware and viruses, Parallels includes a day trial for Kaspersky Internet Security. So far, my virtual Windows 7 installation has stayed free of viruses and malware at least according to Windows itself.
Overall, I had almost no issues with running Windows 7 in Parallels. I installed a virtual Lion on both my vintage Mac Pro and the MacBook Pro, and found that they worked as expected, with a few caveats. I was unable to copy and paste text or images to or from the virtual machine to the host OS—odd, given how well this works in Windows as well as Unix guests.
When I tried to do a video chat in iChat, the camera window opened as a black box, and iChat then crashed. When running FaceTime, however, the camera worked fine.
I also had a problem with the mouse click location being offset from the actual pointer location; this seemed to crop up when switching between full-screen and windowed mode. But for general usage, such as testing software in a safe way, or testing as a user without any login items, being able to run OS X Lion in a virtual machine is great.
I was also able to download and install various Linux distributions using their. Details required :. Cancel Submit. Sure, you can do this easily. In fact, setting up sharing on Win7 Ult.
Add shared directories as desired. If you wish a machine to boot directly to the Desktop in Win7 into one particular user's account for convenience, you can do this. Select a user account to automatically log on by clicking on the desired account to highlight it and then hit OK.
Enter the correct password for that user account if there is one when prompted. Leave it blank if there is no password null. Click on "Change advanced sharing settings". You do not want to be using Homegroup. Obviously you would substitute your correct subnet.
Refer to any third party security program's Help or user forums for how to properly configure its firewall. Do not run more than one firewall. If you set it up in the Sharing module, it will be.
On Win7, create shares as desired.
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