Parallels 2.1 beta 5
….will no longer boot OPENSTEP successfully, as far as I can tell. At least, OS4.2 hangs out, in trying to load the VBE driver. Reverting to Beta 4 works though.
If anyone has different experiences with Beta 5, could they comment here?
Hm – haven’t downloaded 5 yet.
I can report that you can boot an OpenStep image that lives on a Shuffle, however.
Not actually surprising, just amusing to someone who once bought a giant 5.25″ full-height 1gig drive for his NeXT Cube.
Comment by Anonymous — 2006-04-26 @ 15:44
Jon: Now we just need a black magnesium case for your Shuffle and we can pretend it’s a NeXTStation Nano, or something :-). Hmm…I wonder whether I could take one of the spare b0rken slabs I’ve got and hack a Mac Mini into it…
Comment by Graham Lee — 2006-04-26 @ 17:35
It is actually working, it jsut takes several minutes to finally start up, the video driver is not longer working and you are limited to VGA resolution, Alan
Comment by Anonymous — 2006-04-26 @ 20:49
I looked on the Parallels support forum and they said they’re working on it.
I usually use OPENSTEP on my Dimension Cube, but it’s a tad quicker on the MacBook Pro.
Comment by Anonymous — 2006-04-28 @ 16:48
Parallels Release Candidate One is out and OpenStep is running again, you can now use custom screen resultions, I have mine at 1280 x 800
Comment by Anonymous — 2006-05-19 @ 18:23
On RC1, I can’t get past the “Reading OPENSTEP configuration” text if I just let it boot, and it hangs if I specify “VBE Check”=Yes.
It’s using 100% of a processor, though, while it’s hung up.
Comment by Anonymous — 2006-05-19 @ 22:48
RC1 is running fine here on my mini duo.
I did a fresh install – no upgrade.
VESA driver is great (up to 1920×1200), however networking is not running with anything I tried. Even not with the NE2000.
Settings anyone?
Comment by Robert — 2006-05-20 @ 12:01
Yup, just installed the RC and it works, yeah parallels !
The VESA mode I used with beta4 doesn’t work (1200×800) but I changed it to 1680×1050 and that works… hmmm so shiny… ;-)
Comment by Nicolas — 2006-05-29 @ 02:54