Once I switched from PC to Mac, I swore I'd never go back! But there were still a few programs that I needed Windows to run.

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Jul 05, 2010 Parallels is the first to introduce a type 1 hypervisor for Apple hardware in the Parallels Server for Mac 4 Bare Metal edition solution. For assistance in determining which Parallels Server for Mac solution is best for your needs, please request a call from our sales professionals.

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I kept an old PC in my office to use these programs, but the more accustom I became to my Mac, the less I wanted to use my old clunky PC. When I heard about Parallels, I was all over it!

It was easy to install and pretty intuitive. I don't know why I didn't realize this at first. But you do need a copy of Windows to install once you have Parallels on your Mac. But that's ok. Anything to finally cut the cord with that old PC!

I just needed time to learn the software! I grew up with a Mac all through High School and College.

1. Parallels Server for Mac claims as its trump card the ability to run OS X Server as a guest of itself, but that turns out to be what Parallels Server for Mac does least well. OS X Server cannot be.
2. Parallels For Mac; Once I switched from PC to Mac, I swore I'd never go back! But there were still a few programs that I needed Windows to run. Jul 05, 2010 Parallels is the first to introduce a type 1 hypervisor for Apple hardware in the Parallels Server for Mac 4 Bare Metal edition solution.

I LOVED every Mac I owned. Then I got my first job out of college and was forced to use a PC. I complained bitterly, but ultimately was shown that outside of the creative design world, IBM and Microsoft had ensured that businesses were run on PCs and Mac were essentially relegated to the Creative Department. Parallels Desktop 8 For Mac License allows you to run Windows as an application on your Mac. It's like having the best of both possible worlds. You can run all of your Windows software native on your Mac. You don't have to 'convert' all your PC files to Mac files.

Windows Movie Maker, for example, runs perfectly fine on Parallels. It allows you to play and edit.WMV files and test them out inside a Windows environment.

Users can run 32- and 64-bit guest operating systems such as Mac OS X Server, Windows, Linux, and Apple UNIX runtime for Xserve and DTK in virtual machines on Apple Xserves and Mac Pros. Parallels Server for Mac comes with Parallels Tools, Parallels Transporter for P2V and V2V migration and Parallels Disk Image tool for modifying the size of virtual disks. Also included are the Parallels Management Console, which allows server administrators to manage the virtual machines both locally and remotely^[3] and Parallels Explorer, which allows access to virtual machines without launching the guest operating system.

Additional features include:

• Virtual support for 4-way Symmetric Multi-processing (4-way SMP)
• Up to 32 GB of physical RAM
• 64 MB memory support with up to 8 GB guest memory
• Supports virtual guest disk sizes up to 2 TB
• Supports Intel Virtualization Technology (Intel VT-x)) hardware acceleration
• Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) support in VMs
• SDK that enables third-party vendors to incorporate support for Parallels Server for Mac into their own products
• SNMP, Command line interface (CLI)
• VM Assistant to create new virtual machines

Limitations

Parallels Server for Mac can run only on Intel-based Apple hardware which must be running Mac OS X Leopard Server, not Mac OS X Tiger Server or on PC hardware. Also, at this time, users cannot run Mac OS X versions newer than 10.6 in a virtual environment due to Apple licensing restrictions. Also Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) and 10.8 (Mountain Lion) and 10.9 (Mavericks) cannot be virtualized with this software.

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References

1. ↑ Parallels demos Mac server virtualization
2. ↑ Macworld | Parallels Server for Mac demoed at WWDC
3. Parallels Server for Mac Announced || The Mac Observer
4. ↑ Virtualization Report | David Marshall | InfoWorld | Parallels announces the first Mac server virtualization platform | June 18, 2008 08:14 AM | David MarshallArchived June 19, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
5. ↑ Parallels Server for Mac available now - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)

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