Paralles continues to struggle getting

Paralles continues to struggle getting their product to work on the Mac Pro.

I first purchase Parallels for my Mac Book Pro, and on that system it works great. When Apple announced the Mac Pro workstation I ran right out and purchase one. My rational was that the added power of the dual Xenon chipped workstation would significantly improve my productivity, including the .NET C# coding. Thats the beauty of Parallels. It lets you run Windows XP in a window on a Mac running OS X. Its so cool. I can code C# .NET on a Mac.

Parallels runs perfectly on my Mac Book Pro. But either causes a kernel panic, or delivers a meaningless error message of “Unable to communicate with hypervisor!” on the Mac Pro. From a users perspective, what is the value of this message? How does this help get Parallels to work? In disgust I fired off a complaint to Parallels which will most likely do as much good as their error message. Maybe they will surprise me and email back a fix. I won’t hold my breath.

There is a glimmer of hope on the horizon though. VMWare announced that they will release a version of their workstation product for the Mac. I have used their PC workstation product and it is excellent. When they enter the Mac market, Parallels is gone.