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February 27, 2007

Updated Parallels out of beta!
Filed under: Mac OS X , Virtualization
After an extensive Beta and Release Candidate cycle, the new release version of Parallels has now been finalized. This upgrade to the previous release of Parallels brings the following feature updates:
  • Coherence view - Hides your XP desktop and floats Windows windows alongside your OS X windows
  • Windows apps appear in the OS X dock
  • Parallels Transporter - allows easy migration of your existing XP setup from a PC into the Parallels environment
  • Plug-and-play USB 2.0 support
  • Use of Boot Camp partitions as the Parallels drive - this lets you use a single XP image either running virtually under Parallels, or natively if you reboot via Boot Camp
  • Vista Compatability
  • CD/DVD burning Drag-and-Drop support (discussed previously here)

For those running Parallels RC3 (build 3170) won't see much difference. Those still running the old Parallels public release (build 1970) will see amazing enhancements. As always, make sure you back up your full Parallels disk image, and your Mac just to be safe, before you upgrade.

Download release 3186 here

Posted by Kevin Railsback on February 27, 2007 10:14 AM

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Kevin -

Thought you might enjoy a security analysis of Parallels for Linux here: http://jaaron.livejournal.com/39123.html . It's pretty interesting. Hopefully Parallels is not implemented the same way for OS X. If it were, someone could p0wn your machine fairly easily...the trick gives an attacker the ability to put their program's (user-space) function pointers into the kernel, and then call them from within the kernel (which means their arbitrary code would be running with kernel privileges, so they could rootkit you or something else fun).

Be safe out there.

Reid

Posted by: giminy at March 7, 2007 11:03 PM




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