

To see just how fast, we compared Parallels Desktop 4.0's performance against the latest VMWare Fusion 2. Where Fusion comes with McAfee antivirus to help tame Windows malware, Parallels now comes with AV and backup software from Russian countrymen Kasperksy and Acronis.Īside from features that increase integration between the VM and the Mac host, such as showing open apps in the OS X dock or accessing a shared Mac DVD drive in Windows, Parallels Desktop boasts that the latest version 4.0 is faster and has better graphics capabilities too.

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exe files on a Mac carry the Parallels icon. Once installed on a Mac, Parallels automatically takes over the opening of Windows programs, so that all. SmartGuard is Parallels Desktop 4.0's technology for taking automatic snapshots of the state of a virtual machine, allowing easy rollbacks in the event of problems. Catching up with Fusion, Parallel's guest OSes can now be 64-bit, and multi processors are also supported.

Parallels Desktop 4.0 has now added a Modality mode which reduces a VM to a small thumbnail, making it easy to oversee many running VMs. With a virtual machine (VM) running - typically Windows, but Linux and other x86 OSes are supported - you can opt to see a traditional windowed version of the system desktop or in Coherence mode where open apps appear mixed together on the Mac desktop.
