The Final Version of Parallels Desktop for Mac is Now Available!

[Ben @ Parallels]

Hello all -

I'm proud to announce that the final version of Parallels Desktop is now available for download and sale! Thanks to everyone who's supported us throughout beta testing...we couldn't have done it without your feedback and support!

BUYING PARALLELS DESKTOP FOR MAC:
The final release price will be $79.99, but if you buy through July 15th, 2006, you can get the product for only $49.99!
Get your copy now at the Parallels Online Store! (https://www.regnow.com/softsell/nph-softsell.cgi?action=add_to_cart&items=13166-7&quantity=1&__utma=1.141938325.1148303649.1150383717.115038570 5.129&__utmb=1&__utmc=1&__utmz=1.1150385705.129.4.utmccn%3D%28referral%29% 7Cutmcsr%3Dforum.parallels.com%7Cutmcct%3D%2F%7Cut mcmd%3Dreferral&__utmv=-&__utmk=235714178)TRYING BEFORE YOU BUY:
If you're a new user, you can still try the product before you buy with a free 15 day trial (we offer free trials for ALL of our products, btw!)
Try Parallels Desktop for Mac free for 15 days! (http://www.parallels.com/en/download/mac)
A few other important notes about the release:

- If you pre-ordered, you should have received your permanent key. If you didn't, email us at lostkey@parallels.com (%20lostkey@parallels.com) and we'll get it to you right away.

- If you're upgrading from an earlier version of Parallels Desktop, you will NOT need to reinstall Windows or rebuild your virtual machines. You should, however, reinstall Parallels Tools when you're done with your upgrade.


Again, thanks for all of your support!

[netsyd]

Nice!!! :)

I'll be downloading it when I get home tonight ... thanks!

[iCaffeine]

awesome, just downloaded! Thanks :)

[billdill]

This is the third computer, the second model, the second version of SlingPlyer. No matter what the setting or configuration it still crashes. Ethernet, airport, bridged or host only, lots of vm little vm, large swap file or none, no matter. No one seems capable of telling me why. Very frustrating.

[sickbar]

If recall correctly, those of us who payed in advance should also get the VM compressor for free.
Am I right, if so, how do we get it?

Installing finale version now - Good luck to you guys.
Ziv

[scotpb]

Is there a list of the changes since the last version,

EG what was fixed in 1.0 ?

[Andrew @ Parallels]

Parallels Compressor is included into GA and integrated with VM application.

[skapplin]

Congratulations! You guys have worked hard and well to produce Parallels Desktop for Mac. Here's hoping your efforts are well rewarded. Mazel Tov and Success!!

[sickbar]

Parallels Compressor is included into GA and integrated with VM application.

thanks, found it :-)

So far works great!!!

Ziv

[ChrisS]

Congretulations! Good job, guys!

Thanks for this great piece of software!

Chris

[nishi]

Parallel's Team,

Congratulations on this well earned milestone ! I am a Happy and Power user of Parallels. Just one question ... are future upgrades free for everyone who bought this product ?

Also, it will be great if you can highlight briefly what were the changes in this release version over RC2.

You have an awesome team at work !!!

Thanks

Regards
Nishi

[Ed A.]

Parallels Compressor is included into GA and integrated with VM application.

Nice job on the final release, but what is GA and where is Compressor? I don't understand what you're refering to.

[Andrew @ Parallels]

GA means general avalaible product - which was released today. And Compressor is included into package. You can run it from menu VM->Run Parallels Compressor. Please check User Guide for more details.

[daniel]

Congratulations on hitting this milestone. I know you guys have worked hard to get here, and your customers are all reaping the benefits of your hard work.

[Fred Brinkman]

Thanks for the final release. Problem, I cannot get my Airport working anymore, never had any problems with the earlier versions...

[japanime]

Parallel's Team,

Just one question ... are future upgrades free for everyone who bought this product ?

I'm wondering the same thing. I certainly wouldn't expect upgrades to be free forever, but certainly the initials ones will, right?

[sickbar]

Congratulations!!!
Parallel works great. I'm so happy for you guys that you made it, for yourselves and for us users.

Keep up the good work,

Ziv Kitaro

[Dave Ruske]

Congratulations on GA, guys. While you naturally see problems on a support forum, I've been using Parallels Desktop for Mac for a week now and I haven't seen a glitch with XP Pro SP2 --- and I think I've been fairly abusive, installing Visual Studio 2005, IIS, and SQL Server 2000 Personal Edition. In short, I'm able to do full-blown Windows development on my Mac without rebooting, and build a large faster than my 1.6GHz Dell running XP natively.

Thanks for a great product at a fantastic price!

[Andrew @ Parallels]

I'm wondering the same thing. I certainly wouldn't expect upgrades to be free forever, but certainly the initials ones will, right?
Minor upgrades will be free for sure, next major versions probably won't be free.

[billdill]

You know, the modified date in the property page is wrong. It's always a day behind the actual modification date.

[japanime]

Minor upgrades will be free for sure, next major versions probably won't be free.

Thanks for the reply. That's what I expected, and it's entirely fair.

Great product. Thanks again!

[Micheal]

I purchased a license a while a ago to support your efforts and I have been anticipating this release. I have a mac book pro and anxiously await the time that I can run my windows apps (if only I could get mac versions of these) on my mac. Over the time I have spent lots of $$$ on trying to acheive this goal. Please do not misunderstand me, I am very appreciative of the efforts going into this and I would pay 10 times the amount for the functions that I need to use every day and keep up the good work.

My main problem is USB. I use a Keyspan 4 port usb device for serial comms. I also use a p&e usb mulilink controller for programming embedded microcomputers. I have been trying to get these to work but with the serial device I am told to wait 5-10 seconds and try again and that I am plugging a High speed device into a low speed hub.

Is there a possiblity of getting an answer on if there will be solutions to these USB problems in the short term. If not then I would rather know now so that I can persue another other options in the meantime.

As far as running windows on a mac I have never used a PC that this is fast. I may not have experienced a real fast PC but it is very impressive none the less.

Thankyou again

Micheal

[Andrew @ Parallels]

Micheal,

From your description it seems that some app in Mac OS X is holding your USB device exclusevly and VM can't take over. Try to find what app is holding your device and try to release it or close this app.

PS: I expirienced such problem with iPod. To pass it into VM I was forced to detach it from iTunes.

[Micheal]

Andrew,

I uninstalled the Keypsan usb driver from my mac. This is the only way to disable it as it automatically makes the 4 serial ports available to the OS. I installed the correct driver in my windows XP and I get the notifications of loading and unloading but it does not work and the device is not powered.

Is there a way of getting access to the serial ports on the mac by adding COM1 to one of them - this would be an acceptable workaround.

[pheily]

Is "Parallels Desktop for Mac" the new name for "Parallels Workstation 2.1 for Mac OS X"

[joem]

Minor upgrades will be free for sure, next major versions probably won't be free.

It is my sincere hope that making USB 2.0 pass through work will be something you consider "minor". :)

If CD/DVD full pass through so guest based burning software could be used could be "minor" and happen fairly soon, that would be a good thing too.

Of course, with unrestricted USB working, an external DVD burner could be used, solving the problem.

And I hope multiple NICs and more than two USB devices at a time are on your near term roadmap.

These are all things I would have asked for in the initial design if I had been asked, but of course at the time the design was happening, neither of us knew the other existed so that would have been difficult.

That said, I want to thank the Parallels team for the rapid responses to the beta problems, and the no doubt many sleepless nights getting the product to where it is now. It's a good product with what appears to be a bright future.

[rcomeau]

I purchased a license a while a ago to support your efforts and I have been anticipating this release. I have a mac book pro and anxiously await the time that I can run my windows apps (if only I could get mac versions of these) on my mac. Over the time I have spent lots of $$$ on trying to acheive this goal. Please do not misunderstand me, I am very appreciative of the efforts going into this and I would pay 10 times the amount for the functions that I need to use every day and keep up the good work.

My main problem is USB. I use a Keyspan 4 port usb device for serial comms. I also use a p&e usb mulilink controller for programming embedded microcomputers. I have been trying to get these to work but with the serial device I am told to wait 5-10 seconds and try again and that I am plugging a High speed device into a low speed hub.

Is there a possiblity of getting an answer on if there will be solutions to these USB problems in the short term. If not then I would rather know now so that I can persue another other options in the meantime.

As far as running windows on a mac I have never used a PC that this is fast. I may not have experienced a real fast PC but it is very impressive none the less.

Thankyou again

Micheal

After little to no success with the betas, I have managed to get my single-port Keyspan adapter (USA-19HS) to work somewhat with the GA release. I think I still have to remove the driver from the Mac side, and I can do that using the kextunload command. There is a problem still in that the software on the client side (in this case GPS software) can only talk to the GPS once, then I have to unplug/plug the adapter to get it to work again. This might be a driver problem with Keyspan or a problem with the GPS software somehow leaving the port in a bad state, so I am not ready to blame Parallels yet :).

I suggest you try the following:

1: Make sure that on the WIndows side, you have loaded the correct driver for the Keyspan adapter. There are separate Windows drivers (and corresponding installers) for each device, in contrast tothe Mac which has one unified installer for all of them.

2: Before launching Parallels (or at least connecting to the USB device in Parallels), plug in the adapter, open a terminal window and type:
"sudo kextunload /System/Library/Extensions/KeyspanUSAdriver.kext"
This will unload the driver on the Mac side to ensure that it does not compete for the device.

3: In Parallels, connect to the USB device. You should hopefuly hear the USB-conect chime in WIndows. I often hear the connect chime, then the disconect chime, then the conncet one again. The key thing is that the last chime is a connect chime.

4: Launch the Keyspan serial assistant and see if the device shows up in the list, and that it consistently shows a COM port. In the betas, it would constantly cycle between seeing the device and not.

5L If it shows up in the list constantly, then try to use your software that needs to talk to the serial device. In my experience, this only works once, so if you get an error, try unplugging-plugging the device and connecting to it (if you have auto-connect disabled).

6: When you are done with Parallels, unplug the Keyspan and type (in a terminal window)
"sudo kextunload /System/Library/Extensions/KeyspanUSAdriver.kext"
to reload the driver on the Mac side and make the adapter available again when you plug it in.

I hope this helps. I think Parallels has a some way to go in the USB support department before I call it stable or what I would expect in a GA, but they have made enough progress to keep me from switching to boot camp and call myself a relatively happy user.

Please keep the progress coming Parallels!

Regards,

rcomeau

[Micheal]

After little to no success with the betas, I have managed to get my single-port Keyspan adapter (USA-19HS) to work somewhat with the GA release. I think I still have to remove the driver from the Mac side, and I can do that using the kextunload command. There is a problem still in that the software on the client side (in this case GPS software) can only talk to the GPS once, then I have to unplug/plug the adapter to get it to work again. This might be a driver problem with Keyspan or a problem with the GPS software somehow leaving the port in a bad state, so I am not ready to blame Parallels yet :).

I suggest you try the following:

1: Make sure that on the WIndows side, you have loaded the correct driver for the Keyspan adapter. There are separate Windows drivers (and corresponding installers) for each device, in contrast tothe Mac which has one unified installer for all of them.

2: Before launching Parallels (or at least connecting to the USB device in Parallels), plug in the adapter, open a terminal window and type:
"sudo kextunload /System/Library/Extensions/KeyspanUSAdriver.kext"
This will unload the driver on the Mac side to ensure that it does not compete for the device.

3: In Parallels, connect to the USB device. You should hopefuly hear the USB-conect chime in WIndows. I often hear the connect chime, then the disconect chime, then the conncet one again. The key thing is that the last chime is a connect chime.

4: Launch the Keyspan serial assistant and see if the device shows up in the list, and that it consistently shows a COM port. In the betas, it would constantly cycle between seeing the device and not.

5L If it shows up in the list constantly, then try to use your software that needs to talk to the serial device. In my experience, this only works once, so if you get an error, try unplugging-plugging the device and connecting to it (if you have auto-connect disabled).

6: When you are done with Parallels, unplug the Keyspan and type (in a terminal window)
"sudo kextunload /System/Library/Extensions/KeyspanUSAdriver.kext"
to reload the driver on the Mac side and make the adapter available again when you plug it in.

I hope this helps. I think Parallels has a some way to go in the USB support department before I call it stable or what I would expect in a GA, but they have made enough progress to keep me from switching to boot camp and call myself a relatively happy user.

Please keep the progress coming Parallels!

Regards,

rcomeau
Thankyou for your comments. I will attempt these in the morning and comment.

[kirdes]

Hello all -

I'm proud to announce that the final version of Parallels Desktop is now available for download and sale! Thanks to everyone who's supported us throughout beta testing...we couldn't have done it without your feedback and support!

BUYING PARALLELS DESKTOP FOR MAC:
The final release price will be $79.99, but if you buy through July 15th, 2006, you can get the product for only $49.99!
Get your copy now at the Parallels Online Store! (https://www.regnow.com/softsell/nph-softsell.cgi?action=add_to_cart&items=13166-7&quantity=1&__utma=1.141938325.1148303649.1150383717.115038570 5.129&__utmb=1&__utmc=1&__utmz=1.1150385705.129.4.utmccn%3D%28referral%29% 7Cutmcsr%3Dforum.parallels.com%7Cutmcct%3D%2F%7Cut mcmd%3Dreferral&__utmv=-&__utmk=235714178)TRYING BEFORE YOU BUY:
If you're a new user, you can still try the product before you buy with a free 15 day trial (we offer free trials for ALL of our products, btw!)
Try Parallels Desktop for Mac free for 15 days! (http://www.parallels.com/en/download/mac)
A few other important notes about the release:

- If you pre-ordered, you should have received your permanent key. If you didn't, email us at lostkey@parallels.com (%20lostkey@parallels.com) and we'll get it to you right away.

- If you're upgrading from an earlier version of Parallels Desktop, you will NOT need to reinstall Windows or rebuild your virtual machines. You should, however, reinstall Parallels Tools when you're done with your upgrade.


Again, thanks for all of your support!


Hi,

I have pre-orderd PARALLELS DESKTOP FOR MAC on 02.05.2006, but i have no permanent key received till yet and on my mail to lostkey@parallels.com has no one answered. can you help me?

[Roaster]

Congratulations for your new product, unless I do not need the Mac version ;)

And now, please head over to include Vista support into the Windows version (and of course Mac, too) I need it very urgent now for programming tasks - thanks!

[unithom]

My main problem is USB. I use a Keyspan 4 port usb device for serial comms. I also use a p&e usb mulilink controller for programming embedded microcomputers. I have been trying to get these to work but with the serial device I am told to wait 5-10 seconds and try again and that I am plugging a High speed device into a low speed hub.

Michael, I have created a related thread here (http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?t=2855). It asks about sharing ports on the 4-port KeySpan adapter between OSes (say, 3 on the Mac and one for the PC?). I wondered if the SerialClient application would help us at all but when I tried it, it kills the connection between the other ports and the Mac stuff that's using them as well. I mentioned that in this thread (http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?t=926).

Hopefully we will get our USB to Serial stuff figured out! Personally I was just really happy last night when I followed the instructions here (http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?t=577) and got my Vt-x running properly on my core duo Mac mini!

[Fred Brinkman]

[QUOTE=Ben @ Parallels]Hello all -

I'm proud to announce that the final version of Parallels Desktop is now available for download and sale! Thanks to everyone who's supported us throughout beta testing...we couldn't have done it without your feedback and support!


Sorry Guys, I have been very, very pleased with the product, but ever since the final release is out, nothing functions anymore. I paid for a product I cannot use and no way to get any support, have been sending lots of emails, no answer, never. I can understand that it's busy during beta testing, I would expect some more attention now.

I have always been able to work with each and every rc and beta, never any problems, the GA just does not and no way to get any support.

[Andrew @ Parallels]

Fred Brinkman,

Could you describe what is your problem please?

[seven]

The final release price will be $79.99, but if you buy through July 15th, 2006, you can get the product for only $49.99!

I was about to order it now (July 15th), but the order pages (checkout page) already charges $79.99.

How can I order it at the sale price?
It is still July 15th....

[virbing]

I was about to order it now (July 15th), but the order pages (checkout page) already charges $79.99.

How can I order it at the sale price?
It is still July 15th....

I am in the same boat. I realized that Parallels runs on Eastern time and tried to get in about 8:45 pm Pacific time. Went to the website - on the home page, the price still says $49.99. Go to the order page and the price in the basket is $79.99. I sent an email to sales and hope that they will honor the price to midnight July 15, EDT.

The part that really sucks is that this is the second copy that I was planning to buy. The first time, I missed the beta pricing because I logged in the morning that the final release version shipped. After using the intelMac Mini with Parallels, I decided to go out and buy a MacBook as well. For the last couple of days, I have been using the demo version and have been trying to get Parallels to get an Activesync partnership reliably with my Cingular 8125. Part of the reason that I ended up leaving the purchase to the last minute was that I have been spending all day loading BootCamp and WinXP so that I can upgrade the 8125 to the newest firmware so that I could try to use Parallels for the ActiveSync. Running out of time, I went ahead to order the software, only to find that they had already raised the price on the order page.

Hopefully, Parallels will be kind to both of us and offer us the introductory price. I am an individual and cannot afford to throw away money.

[virbing]

I am happy to say that my email seemed to have worked. I got an email back from Parallels allowing me to purchase the software at the promotional price. The only drawback is that the order processing does not seem to work with Safari. I ended up loading WinXP in Parallels and making the purchase through MIE in WinXP