Parallels Coherence

Parallels Coherence is a advanced functionality of Parallels Desktop, developed by the firm Parallels , which increases the integration of the interface of the OS customers Microsoft Windows within MacOSX.

Presentation

Introduced into version 3.186 of Parallels Desktop left on March 1st 2007, Parallels Coherence represents one of the major changes by offering an integration of OS customers quite higher than what was carried out until now. This operating process of Parallels Desktop is accessible by the menu posting > Coherence .

Implementation

The detailed operation of this integration is partly held secret to avoid any copy. Nevertheless, Parallels Desktop integrates the Windows windows and allows their direct interraction with MacOSX thanks to the drivers owners Parallels Tools .

Functionalities

Coherence introduces a great number of functionalities innovating into the field of the virtualisation.

Redimentionnement with the flight

In fenestrated mode, i.e. using OS customer like only one window under MacOSX, the resolution of OS customer adapts automatically and in real-time to dimensions of the window under MacOSX. In this way the totality of the workspace of OS customer is constantly accessible, without having to use scroll bars on the window.

Integration

Certainly the functionality more impressonnante of Coherence , the integration of OS customer within MacOSX makes it possible to manage the windows of the applications of OS customer in the same way as the native windows of MacOSX.

Concretely that results in the disappearance of the office of OS Windows to leave room to the office of MacOSX (it is nevertheless possible to ask the posting of the office of Windows). Only the bar of the tasks of Windows appears under MacOSX, leaving the occasion to the user of launching the software which it wishes.

The opening of a new window dependant on Windows (launching of an application, to explore for navigation, popup) propoque automatically its intgration supplements in MacOSX. It keeps all its properties and its possibilities of interractions specific to Windows (enlarging/reduction/redimentionnement) which are then impacted immediately under MacOSX.

Each window launched under an OS Windows managed by Coherence , is represented in the dock of MacOSX as if it were about a window resulting from a native application from MacOSX. The icon used for the dock takes again that of the application under Windows, labelled logo of Parallels to specify its dependence with a Windows system managed by Parallels Desktop .

In practice, Coherence makes it possible to launch applications functioning only under Windows, without being impacted by the interface suitable for Windows, or to work while having jointly and on the same desk of the windows coming from the various environments.

Direct link

The management of the direct links benefits from the integration of Windows in MacOSX, while proposing to create in the MacOSX environment a persistent bond towards a Windows application. When the user activates this bond, Parallels Desktop launches out automatically in background task and load OS concerned (if it is not already active) and launches the Windows application.

To optimize the time of loading of the applications and to decrease the incidence of the time of launching of Windows, Parallels Desktop calls upon a fast mode of Suspend To Disk , which makes it possible to suspend the execution of the system customer and to record his state on the disc, to then be able to start again it more quickly. This form of hibernation makes it possible to reduce in a drastic way times of launching and stop of Windows to a few seconds.

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