Parallels Team: I am totally thrilled with the progress that you have made; in particular BootCamp instance support and Coherence. It is absolutely changing the way that I use OSX and XP together vs. using them independently. I've been amazed at the level of interest and interaction from the forum community around build 3036. I haven't seen this level of activity since your first release. My suggestion below is centered around keeping the momentum up and mitigate the communities frustrations. <Pre Soap Box Caveot> Acknowledgment that you may not want to give your competition any additional runway for new features like Coherence, I'll get on my soap box for a moment for this request. </Pre Soap Box Caveot> <Soap Box> I would really like to see a (live) feature/bug fix poll here on the forum to enable the user community to provide feedback for feature/fix prioritization. I would expect that this would provide some mitigation of expectation frustrations from the community because the (transparent) collective input would provide the visibility to everyone about the interest level (priority) features/bugs. i.e. If a users missing feature or bug doesn't rank very high, they could adjust their expectation for what the development team is likely to tackle before their is addressed. Realizing of course that some features/bugs are sometimes best addressed in groups, so some lower priority features/bugs could in fact be implemented before ones with a higher priority. Something like a scaled down version of Accept 360 would be ideal, but a forum poll would be a good first step. </Soap Box> Thanks for your hard work. Todd
There is such a poll thread, but maybe it's time for a new one. I have no use whatsoever for coherence or anything else designed to make the machine look as if it's running Windows programs on the Mac desktop. I really want an emulated Windows machine, and I don't want it to work in any way like a Mac -- I want it to work exactly like Windows, and I really want the two to be as separate as possible, and for the VM to have as much simulated or real access to the hardware as possible with the decision of which devices belong to the VM and which don't made on the fly by me. The most important thing to me right now is FULL USB passthrough, followed by direct disk partition access regardless of connection method, including USB and Firewire. I do not need or want the same partition owned by two operating systems at the same time, but NTFS read / write from OSX (which would probably have to come from Apple) would be nice, and direct access to virtual disks from OSX with the VM off would be nice. The next thing on my priority list is multiple core access for guests, and when Leopard is released, 64 bit emulation. There isn't anything else I need that Parallels doesn't do right now. And of course, while all this is happening, it needs to be stable (duh).
