Have you ever wanted to run Windows or Linux applications on your Mac? Well if you have an Intel powered Mac running a Mac OS X 10.4.6 or later operating system you can run a complete Windows or Linux operation system in parallel while still running your Mac operating system.
What you need to do is install the Parallels Desktop 3.0 for Mac software on your system. To successfully run Parallels Desktop on your Mac you must have the following:-
* Mac OS X 10.4.6 or later. To check what version of Mac OS X you have got, choose About This Mac from the Apple menu in the menu bar.
* An Intel-powered Core™ Duo or Core™ Solo Mac® Mini, iMac®, MacBook™, MacBook Pro or Mac Pro.
* A minimum of 768MB of RAM but 1GB is recommended.
* About 200 MB of hard disk space on the boot volume for Parallels Desktop installation.
* Sufficient space on your hard disks to allocate for the virtual machines, i.e. 15 GB of hard disk space is recommended for each virtual machine.
Installing Parallels Desktop is very easy. When it is installed you can then use it to install what it calls the Guest operation systems i.e. the other operating system such as Windows XP or Vista or Linux that you want to run at the same time as your Mac operating system. You can install any of the Windows operating systems but there is a Windows Express Installation Assistant especially for Windows XP and Windows Vista. You can also install using Typical or Custom installation settings. During the installation process you will have to insert the CD or DVD containing the Operating System software you want installed.
When the Guest operating system is installed it will run in a Window on your Mac screen. When you launch an application in the virtual machine with Windows installed, the application's icon appears in the Dock by default. Right-click (Control-click) the applications icon in the Dock, and select Keep in Dock. In this way even when the virtual machine is stopped, the application icon will remain in the Dock. If you click the Windows application's icon in the Dock it launches the virtual machine and then the Windows application.
Parallels Desktop includes specially developed tools that help you use your virtual machines in the most comfortable and efficient way.
To exchange files between the Mac OS X and your Windows virtual machine, you can set up one or more shared folders that will be visible to both operating systems.
In the virtual machine you can open Mac OS X applications. The list of Parallels Shared Applications is created during the installation of Parallels Tools. The list of your Mac applications is available when you choose All Programs -> Parallels Shared Applications from the Windows Start menu.
So now all those Windows applications or game you want to use can now be run on you Mac.
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