Parallels Workstation

The talented programmers over at Parallels just don't stop. They've just released beta 5 of Parallels Workstation and the fixes and improvements keep on coming!

We've now got Shared Folders which is great, as to copy data to and from a VM, you no longer need to go via a network share. There's also Direct USB Support which should mean that it will be possible to run software inside the VM that uses, say, a USB dongle for authentication.