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Vista OEM I'm posting this message on a 32 bit OEM version of Vista Ultimate clean installed in Parallels.:)

Direct graphic card acceleration? Man, can't wait until the headline reads "Latest Build of Parallels Desktop now supports direct graphic card acceleration" :)

Make sure you click the start button in Internet Sharing After checking the box for Internet sharing using the Ethernet adapter (en2), be sure to click the start button to actually make Mac OSX share its internet connection. I kept making the mistake of just checking the box and then closing...

Using DISKPART After typing in the expand command, I am presented with a list of options. Which should I choose and how should I type in the arguments for the command?:confused:

I used the ImageTool.app to expand my virtual disk containing Win XP up to 8 Gb when I began to run out of space installing Windows games. However, when I run Win XP, my C: drive still lists the original size of the virtual disk at nearly 4 Gb. What's going on?

You forgot to mention... ...the fact that the Mac OS X interface is much more pleasant to work with than with Windows XP or with the various Linux desktop GUI incantations.:D

Use iTunes as a guide I suggest making Parallels Workstation use iTunes or any of the iApps as a Mac OS X GUI guide for for the play and pause buttons, for example, or using the brushed metal appearance of Quicktime movie players for the controls.

Give user a choice when quitting My suggestion then is to rename the choice Suspend to Save State instead in the dialog box when one quits Parallels workstation without powering down the virtual machine. This would ease the transition that Virtual PC users have to make when migrating to...

Virtual PC is able to save the current state of the PC running, whihc means that you can save, quit Virtual PC and then go back to it from where you left off. You don't have to boot the PC again. That would be a great feature to have in Parallels' Workstation.

One criticism of Parallel's Workstation for Mac OS X is that the interface such as the cosole and the dialog boxes, buttons and icons do not look much like a Mac OS X application, so my suggestion is to incorporate that in the next beta version. Mac OS X users are pretty picky when it comes to...

Make sound device installation a default I think that the sound device installation should be made a default installation in Beta 4 when a new VM machine is created.