The IES <Virtual Environment> suite of windows-only products; VE-Ware, VE-Toolkits, VE-Gaia and VE-Pro can now be installed and run on Apple Macs, and be eligible for full IES technical support.
IES will provide full technical support when its products are installed and run on Apple Macs using VMware Fusion or Parallels Desktop virtualisation, or the Boot Camp utility included within the latest Mac OS X.
VMware Fusion and Parallels Desktop create a ‘Virtual Machine’ (VM) on which a secondary Windows operating systems can be run. It allows you to run the most demanding Mac and Windows applications side-by-side at maximum speeds without rebooting. Alternatively, Boot Camp allows users to boot up their Mac using a Windows operating system, but does not allow simultaneous access to Mac applications.
“With the development of our plug-in to Google SketchUp and the expansion of our products to include more early design stage tools aimed at architects, interoperability with Macs is becoming increasingly important to our customers, commented Dr Don McLean, Founder and Managing Director of IES. “I’m delighted that the <Virtual Environment> has now been successfully tested and proven to work on VM Fusion and Parallels virtualisation, as well as Boot Camp installations.”
