WOW! Only missing 4 features to have me completely sold!

This is hands down sweet. Boot Camp is nice for games, but for ppl needing to run only an ocassional XP app like myself --- this is much better. And how it blows away VPC 7! It'll take M$ a year to release a half-assed program similar to this and they'll charge 5X more and stuff some crappy OS in it.

Anyhow, my reason for posting is one critical feature is missing, and two small ones that will keep me from purchasing.

1) Internet via Airport/wireless card. VPC did it, so I know this can. How and when will this happen?
2) USB devices, such as hard disks being recognized.
3) Access OS X files? Does FAT32 let you communicate?
4) Native MBP display resolution of 1440x900.

Only number 1 will keep me from buying, 2 and 3 would be nice also. 4 is least concern.

Nick

 

It supports Internet via the Airport card right now...in fact, that's the only way you can get networking that won't cause panics. With the VM stopped, go to its properties view, click on Network adapter, then change en0 to en1 in the selection list. Start the VM, and it'll be talking through the Airport.

 

LOL, and to think I did that exact thing but it must have just not worked as I only tried it once and figured it wasn't working! Thanks for the info! I guess I'm sold, though my other quirks still would be nice to have fixed unless again i'm ignorant and you can already do them?

Thanks again,
Nick

 

Yeah... how do you configure windows though???

 

I have tried changing to EN1 but did not work.

 

This is a beta.

USB support will be added.

File sharing support will be added.

Full screen support will be added.

These are all known limitations of the beta. (Did you read the release notes? ;-) )

 

That's sweet - I did notice an EN1 option but didn't try it yet.
D

 

It's a bloody brilliant beta!!!
D

 

EN1, but what then?

I see we need to set the networking to EN1, that's good. But, is there a way to make the connection-through-Airport work from inside Windows? How do we set up Windows TCP/IP for this? (Nothing I do seems to want to work from inside Windows, it just won't connect).

By the way, major kudos to the creators of this! You have my loyalty forever!

 

Do you mean like a "kick-ass beta?"
-john.

 

Try to download Beta2 - number of networking issues were fixed there.

 

Also, FYI, you can access your OS X files from a Windows guest OS by using System Preferences -> Sharing -> Windows File Sharing (dont' forget to enable an account).

Worked for me in Beta 2.