Bugfixes and improvements in Parallels Desktop 4.0 Update (build 4.0.3846)
- Support for creating virtual machines with Mac OS X Leopard Server and Snow Leopard Server on Nehalem-based Mac Pros and Xserves – added.
- Support for creating Boot Camp virtual machines with Windows Vista SP2 – added.
- Support for creating Boot Camp virtual machines with Windows 7 – added.
- Support for running Windows 7 in virtual machines – improved.
- Windows 7 system tray icons – improved.
- Express installation of Windows 7 – added.
- Shared profile issues in Windows 7 – fixed.
- Direct printing feature in Windows 7 - fixed.
- Sound card support in Windows 7- fixed.
- Other Windows 7 improvements and bugfixes.
- Support for running Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server in virtual machines - fixed.
- Problems with installing Parallels Tools in the Ubuntu Linux 9.04 guest OS - fixed.
- Support for using Mac OS X Snow Leopard (including the 64-bit version) on host computers – improved.
- A number of bugs for using Parallels Desktop and running virtual machines on host computers with Mac OS X Snow Leopard fixed. Most important bugs are listed below:
* QuickLook plug-in crashes when trying to preview the contents of a PVM bundle
(the crash is invisible for the user).
* The update may fail to install the downloaded updates for Parallels Desktop 4.0.
* Parallels Mounter and Explorer may fail to open Parallels Desktop disk images.
* It may be impossible to connect to the virtual machine from the iPhone client.
* Creating a virtual machine snapshot may take a very long time.
* Opening a web link from inside a Windows-based virtual machine in Mac Safari
using the Shared Internet Applications feature may result in appending garbage
to the link.
* On 64-bit host computers, connecting a USB device to a virtual machine may
cause a kernel panic.
Parallels Desktop
Run Windows simultaneously with OS X.
Version: 5.0
Here's what's new - Robert Welch
Parallels Desktop Build 4.0.3846 actually seems to work poorly with Snow Leopard. It is running MUCH slower on my iMac 3.06 GH Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB SDRAM, with Snow Leopard than it did with Leopard. Having to wait several minutes for Parallels' virtual disk to mount makes it impractical to use.I sent email to the software developer asking about this, but have received no response after several days.
Is anyone else experiencing this apparent slow-down with SL? Is Fusion or any other virtual disc software any faster?
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Monday, September 21 2009 @ 06:50 PM PDT