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Parallels Desktop 10 officially supports Microsoft Windows 10 (technical preview). The famous desktop virtualization software for Mac made the download and installation steps very easy in unattended method. We have earlier showed the way of from Microsoft’s Windows insider program. Also, this guide shows how you can on Windows environment (like Windows 8 and 7). When it comes to Mac OS X on Apple hardware, Parallels is one of the best desktop virtualization software for Mac to run Windows and other operating systems.
You just need to click few clicks to get running Windows 10 on Mac, of course it will download the official ISO from Microsoft which require good internet connection. Installing Windows 10 on Mac Yosemite with Parallels 1) Make sure you have the latest Parallels Desktop 10 or later versions which support this feature. 2) Create a new virtual machine in Parallels and select Windows 10 Technical preview as shown below. 3) Next screen is to select the version you would like to install. Remember, the Parallels desktop virtualization software for Mac will be download the appropriate ISO from Microsoft site (based on your selection). 4) Select the location to download and save ISO file. You can leave with the default location too.
5) The download process will start with the next screen, since the size is around 5GB, it will take some time. 7) Once the ISO has been downloaded from Microsoft site, installation will begin automatically.
Windows 10 installation steps have not been changed, it is very similar to Windows 8. You can refer our. You must have with Parallels Desktop. 8.) Here is the working Windows 10 on Parallels with Yosemite MacPro laptop. If you already have the ISO file of Windows 10, then you can follow the normal method to create a new virtual machine, mount the ISO file to CD/DVD drive and install the Operating System.
What I Like with Windows 10 on Parallels Desktop I have used Oracle VirtualBox to install Windows 10 on Mac OS X 10.10, but the display quality and performance is very bad. Even though VirtualBox doesn’t support Windows 10 officially yet, but I can say even Windows 8.1 works with the same poor display on Mac. Compared to that, Parallels handles Windows 10 very well on Apple hardware. The display performance and quality is excellent while running the guest OS in full screen size. It almost looks like running the Windows 10 natively on Apple laptop or like using Boot camp. Of course we can’t compare VirtualBox with Parallels, because first one is free and other one is a paid software.
Incase you need to use Windows 10 on your Mac laptop or desktop very frequently and in better way, I suggest to spend some bucks and buy the Parallels desktop 10, it works great.
I have a macbook pro. Recently I installed parallels desktop on it. But the problem i have is when I connect a usb device to my macbook it is not being detected in the windows parallel desktop. Also I have no idea how to get right click options in the parallel windows desktop.
Can you please help me. Thank you for your help in advance. I have to admit that I was stymied for a long time about how to right-click within Parallels, a great virtualization application available for Mac OS X that lets you run Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Vista, Linux and a variety of other operating systems within Mac OS X. Plug in an external two-button mouse, of course, and the right click just works, but within Parallels?
The secret is to hold down the Control-Shift buttons when you click on the mouse within Parallels. I found that out by actually reading their documentation (imagine!) after puzzling through the problem for far too many hours.
Your Control key might well be labeled “Ctrl” on your MacBook Pro, as it is with mine, of course. The USB device question is straightforward too.
In the Preferences for Parallels you can specify whether you want USB devices to be auto-connected upon detection or not. Sounds like you have this option turned off.
To change it, you need to shut down your virtual machine, if it’s running, and then choose Edit – Virtual Machine, within which you’ll find one of the options is: On mine you can see that I have my Connection Options set to “Connect to Guest OS”: yours is set to “Connect to Mac OS” instead. A good third alternative, by the way, is to simply choose the option “Ask me what to do”, which means that every time it detects a new USB device, you’ll have the option of letting Parallels have it or let Mac OS X have it.
Finally, if you are running Parallels and you find that your USB devices are being captured by Mac OS X but not your virtual guest OS, you can also go to the Devices menu, find the peripheral in question, and choose it to have Parallels wrest control from Mac OS X and hand it to your guest operating system. If the peripheral is checked, Parallels owns it, and if it’s not checked, the Mac operating system owns it: As you can see, Parallels has stolen control of my Apple iPhone from the Mac operating system and the Mac side can’t see it. Interestingly, when hooked up this way, the phone doesn’t appear to charge from the USB connection, but when I release it from Parallels (by simply selecting it in this Devices menu) it syncs up with iTunes on my Mac and charges from the USB cable too. That should get you going a bit more efficiently with Parallels. Just an update on my problems with connecting an external USB to parallels, according to this: It seems that maybe it has to do with the parallel builds responding to the latest Mac OS X 10.4 When I get home from work, I will try to update parallels and see if the problem gets solved.
– – – Also, in my earlier post, I mentioned holding down the command button while starting up parallels. This is for starting up the parallels by (in my case at least) double clicking on vista lite.pvs.
When I open parallels using the paralles desktop icon though, I don’t need to worry about holding down the command button because parallels starts without automatically launching the virtual machine. Is your advice more geared towards the (at the time of this post) Parallels 3? Because I’m running Parallels 2 and I don’t see the options to choose between these 3: “Connect to Guest OS” “Connect to Mac OS” “Ask me what to do” I only have a checkbox under connection options that says: Connect USB Devices automatically. I’m still struggling with getting my Parallels to see the external HD that I’m connecting.
Before, I couldn’t get Parallels to notice the external HD when I connected it. By finding this site, I found out I needed to go into this configuration editor and select “Connect USB Devices automatically.” However, the problem’s still not solved. When I connect an external USB, it says that someone else is trying to access it (I assume the Mac). So I’m still trying to figure out how to get this to work. One more thing I think you should mention. I coudln’t get to the configuration editor because everytime I opened parallels, it would automatically start the windows vista I have installed – and you can’t edit while windows vista is running.
So what you have to do (which I found out by reading the manual) is hold down the command key and double click on parallels, and keep holding down the command key. And that’ll allow you to start parallels without starting vista.