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Parallels Desktop

Run Windows simultaneously with OS X.

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Here's what's new

Feedback Type:  Usage Tip

Contributed by: pbjorknas Tuesday, September 01 2009 @ 11:39 AM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Less than a month

Recommend Product: YES

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.   

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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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