June 18th, 2013· Use Parallels Desktop on a Mac with OS X Mavericks 10.9 Developer Preview (experimental support).
· Work with Parallels Desktop on new MacBooks Air (Mid-2013).
April 3rd, 2013· Addresses overall stability and performance issues, and includes the following enhancements.
March 28th, 2013Addresses overall stability and performance issues, and includes the following enhancements:
· Better compatibility with new iMacs.
· Create Boot Camp virtual machines on new iMacs with 3 TB hard drives.
· Create virtual machines from the Boot Camp partition with Windows 8 installed.
· Support for Fedora 18.
· Fixed visual artifacts when changing screen resolution in a Windows 8 Pro virtual machine with more than 256 MB of video memory and nested virtualization enabled.
· Resolves an issue with the Command + click combination not opening links in new tabs in Windows browsers (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, etc.).
December 6th, 2012Addresses overall stability issues and includes the following fixes:
· Resolves an issue with the built-in camera not working with Windows.
· Resolves an issue with some USB devices not working in virtual machines.
November 29th, 2012This update for Parallels Desktop 8 for Mac (build 8.0.18345) addresses overall stability and performance issues, and includes the following enhancements:
· Option to disable edge swipe gestures in Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012, for those who often accidentally swipe from the edges of the touchpad and activate features.
· Improved connectivity to the Internet via a proxy-server.
September 19th, 2012· Improved support for multi-display configurations that include Retina and non-Retina displays.
· Improved Full Screen support in single and multi-display configurations.
· Resolves an issue with Flash video playback in the Chrome browser for Windows.
· Resolves an issue with the keyboard malfunctioning in the Coherence (non-Crystal) view mode.
· Resolves an issue with the mouse moving too fast on Mac computers with Retina displays when SmartMouse is disabled.
· Dragging and dropping between OS X and to Windows 8 now works correctly on Mac computers with Retina displays.
· In Parallels Desktop Preferences, you can now disable hiding or showing Parallels Desktop using the F6 key.
August 30th, 2012Life Simplified:
· Speak! Don’t Type! – Use Mountain Lion’s Dictation tool across both Windows and Mac
· Drag & Drop email attachments – Simply drag and drop files from the desktop onto the Doc Icons for Outlook or other Windows email clients
· Windows apps on OS X "Launchpad" – Add Windows apps to the Mountain Lion or Lion Launchpad to quickly launch Mac and Windows apps you use the most
· Enhanced! With the new Parallels Mobile App, copy-and-paste, enjoy audio, and access your Mac and Windows programs with your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch.
Visually Stunning:
· Brilliant Retina display resolution – Enjoy Retina display resolution with Windows appls to see crisper fonts, vivid photos, images and animations
· Improved graphics – Don’t compromise with graphically intensive apps
· No hassle presentations – New Presentation Wizard makes presentations easier and interruption-free by disabling screensavers on Mac and Windows, optimizing the full-screen display and automatically adjusting resolution
Proven Performance:
· Enhanced! Increased graphics performance: up to 30% faster for 3D graphics compared to previous versions
· Enhanced! Start, stop and resume Windows more quickly, as much as 25%, every time you launch Windows
July 13th, 2012· Run Windows 8, Ubuntu, and Fedora on the latest models of Mac computers (MacBook Air (mid 2012), MacBook Pro (mid 2012) , MacBook Pro with Retina display).
· Run Fedora 17 in virtual machines.
· Install Parallels Desktop on Mac computers running OS X Mountain Lion.
· Use IMG disc images for the virtual machine CD/DVD-ROM drive.
· Use USB 3.0 devices in virtual machines. - Improved Parallels Mobile connectivity with Mac.
· Improved Linux distributions detection during Express installation.
· Enhanced Retina display support.
June 23rd, 2012· Retina display support.
June 5th, 2012Fixes and improvements:
· Support for Windows 8 Release Preview (experimental).
· Download and install Windows 8 Release Preview right from the Parallels Wizard.
April 10th, 2012· Support for Ubuntu 12.04 (experimental).
· Download and install Fedora 16 right from the Parallels Wizard.
· Support for the Dvorak keyboard layout.
· Support for the Arabic keyboard layout.
· Support for the French numeric keyboard layout.
· Improved support for the Swedish keyboard layout: clicking Shift + 2 now displays the @ sign instead of TM.
· Improved 3D support.
· Resolves an issue with synchronizing time settings between Windows and Mac.
March 6th, 2012· Support for OS X Mountain Lion (experimental).
· Support for Windows 8 Consumer Preview (experimental).
· Download and install Windows 8 Consumer Preview right from the Parallels Wizard.
January 9th, 2012Includes the following fixes and improvements:
· Improved support for Fedora 15 virtual machines.
· Improved network support for Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha virtual machines.
November 2nd, 2011This update for Parallels Desktop for Mac (build 7.0.15050) addresses overall stability and performance issues and includes the following fixes and improvements:
· Download and install Windows 8 Developer Preview right from the Parallels Wizard.
· Install OS X Lion using Install Lion.app.
· Support for Ubuntu 11.10.
· Improved full screen experience with a new option allowing to scale the virtual machine screen to fit the visible screen area while keeping the resolution.
· Improved support for non-English keyboard layouts.
· Resolves an issue with the Apple USB Ethernet Adapter disconnecting from Mac OS.
· Improved migration of the recent Linux versions from a PC to a virtual machine on your Mac.
· And many other fixes and improvements.
October 6th, 2011Improves the general performance and stability, including fixes that:
· Add support for Windows 8 Developer Preview (new Windows 8 installation is recommended after installing the update).
· Improve compatibility with Quicken 2011.
· Improve support for Autodesk 3ds Max 2012.
· Optimize CPU usage when Parallels Desktop is idle.
September 15th, 2011· New interface languages, including Czech, Portuguese, Chinese Simplified, and Chinese Traditional.
· Option to choose Mac OS X Snow Leopard-style full screen mode instead of native OS X Lion full screen mode.
· Better compatibility with FileVault.
· Improved compatibility with FaceTime HD camera and other USB devices for virtual machines with more than 2 GB of memory.
· Resolves a problem with Mac slow boot time.
September 1st, 2011OS X Lion Compatibility:
· Support for Full-Screen Apps introduced in OS X Lion.
· Launchpad integration: add Windows programs of your choice to Launchpad and use the Windows folder to access other Windows programs from Launchpad.
· OS X Lion-style animations when opening new Windows programs windows in Coherence.
· Support for Resume introduced in OS X Lion.
· Support for running OS X Lion in a virtual machine.
· Ability to create OS X Lion virtual machines using the recovery partition on Macs running OS X Lion.
Usability:
· All-new Parallels Wizard that enables you to create and import virtual machines to run Windows or another operating system, migrate your data from a remote PC, use Boot Camp, or download free ready-to-use virtual machines with Ubuntu, Fedora or Chrome OS.
· Windows can now be purchased and downloaded right from the Parallels Wizard (in the US and Canada only).
· Parallels Convenience Store provides an easy way to buy useful applications both for Mac and Windows.
· New, more intuitive design to enhance user experience.
· Coherence tutorial after Windows installation to help new users understand how to work in Parallels Desktop.
· Parallels Desktop installation now contains all available languages Parallels Desktop user interface language is automatically set to match the Mac OS language.
· Automatic installation of Parallels Desktop software updates so you'll always be up-to-date with important fixes and feature improvements.
· Simpler, streamlined process for installing guest operating systems.
· Clearer process for updating Parallels Tools for Windows.
· Option to show or hide the virtual machine window status bar.
· Improved integration with Spaces: move Windows programs between spaces in Coherence.
· Use a passcode to transfer Windows from a remote PC to your Mac more easily. You no longer need to know the PC IP address or name.
· Mac-style Virtual Machine Configuration dialog: all changes are applied on the fly.
· 3D games now automatically switch to Full Screen when started in Coherence.
· Ctrl-Alt-End combination has been added to the Devices > Keyboard menu.
· Clone to Template and Convert to Template interfaces redesigned for simplicity.
· Smart Mouse mode can now be changed while Windows is running.
Parallels Mobile:
· Sound support: now you can play back music and audio files remotely from your Windows virtual machine.
· Parallels Mobile now allows to copy and paste text between the mobile device and Windows.
· Control your Mac and Mac applications just like you control Windows and your virtual machine.
· Better video performance.
· Ability to set Parallels Mobile to connect to your Mac and Windows only when Wi-Fi connection is available.
· Improved support for external displays and keyboards.
· Integration
· iSight, FaceTime HD camera, and external webcams can now be shared between Mac OS X and Windows.
· Improved virtual printing: Mac OS X printers automatically become available in Windows and if you change the Mac OS X default printer, virtual machines configured to use that printer automatically use the new one.
· Shared Profile improvement: Windows Recycle Bin can now be mapped to Trash in Mac OS X.
· Automatic adjustment of Windows keyboard layout making it work the same way as in Mac OS X.
· Shared folders contents are refreshed immediately after a change is made from either side.
· Unresponsive Windows programs now support Force Quit sent from Mac OS.
· Coherence mode is now available for Linux virtual machines as well.
· Two-way time synchronization: When enabled, changes to the time settings in either Mac OS X or the guest OS are automatically synchronized to the other.
· Windows disks and folders shared with Mac OS X are mounted to /Volumes.
Performance:
· Full 64-bit application for enhanced performance.
· Improved overall performance.
· Improved 3D performance.
· Improved disk I/O performance.
· Improved shared folders performance.
· Improved printing performance.
· Faster conversion of third-party virtual machines.
· Improved gaming experience: more modern games are supported.
· Jumbo frames support for improving networks throughput.
· Hardware virtualization improvements, including AVX (Advanced Vector Extensions) instructions support.
· Much longer battery life with a power saving option that can be activated on new MacBook Pros equipped with two video cards.
Devices:
· Assign up to 1 GB of video memory to a single virtual machine.
· WDDM (Windows Display Driver Model) 1.1 support.
· Enjoy 7.1 Surround Sound in Windows virtual machines.
· Improved sound capabilities in Windows with sample rate up to 192 KHz and bit depth up to 24 bit for playback devices and up to 192 KHz and 16 bit for recording devices.
· More accurate mouse pointer movements when Windows is busy.
· Horizontal scrolling support for Linux virtual machines.
· Choose to show virtual network interface cards in Mac OS X System Preferences.
Other:
· Complimentary 90-day subscription to Acronis Online Backup.
· Complimentary 90-day subscription to Kaspersky Internet Security 2012 for Windows and Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2011 for Mac (for new Parallels Desktop users only).
· Create virtual machines booting from Live CDs.
· Import virtual machines created in Virtual Box 4.
· In the Window view mode, a visual indicator shows when your shared folders are busy.
· Connect an additional mouse (or any other pointing device) directly to your virtual machine via USB.
July 22nd, 2011Improves compatibility with Mac OS X v10.7 Lion and includes fixes and improvements that:
· Resolve issues with shared Windows applications when running virtual machines in Crystal mode on Mac OS X Lion.
· Improve compatibility with Launchpad introduced in Mac OS X Lion.
· Resolve other compatibility issues revealed while testing Parallels Desktop on Mac OSX Lion.
July 13th, 2011· Parallels Desktop (build 6.0.12092) improves compatibility with Mac OS X v10.6.8 and includes fixes and improvements that: - resolve an issue with Finder and the Dock being unresponsive while working with icons larger than 128x128 px created by Parallels Desktop.
· Note: When installing this update, some of your shared applications icons may be reset to the default Parallels Desktop icon and will look so until you upgrade Parallels Tools in the virtual machine.
June 2nd, 2011Improves the general performance, stability, and compatibility of virtual machines, including the following fixes and improvements:
· Adds support for Ubuntu 11.04 virtual machines.
· Improves mapping of Mac OS X system shortcuts to their equivalents in guest operating systems.
· Improves sharing clipboard between Windows and Mac OS X.
· Post about your exploring Windows on the Mac to Twitter and Facebook right from Parallels Desktop.
· Migrate multiple user accounts from a PC to your Mac using Parallels Transporter.
· Many issues have been fixed.
February 22nd, 2011· Resolves compatibility issues with Mac OS X 10.6.5 and 10.6.6.
December 27th, 2010Improves the general performance, stability, and compatibility of virtual machines, including fixes that:
· Address problems with incorrect handling of HTML links and files - resolve an issue with disk access errors in Boot Camp virtual machines
· Resolve graphical issues in Need for Speed Hot Pursuit game - resolve an issue with SATA virtual CD/DVD drives support in a virtual machine with more than 2 GB of memory
December 6th, 2010· Address stability and performance of Parallels Desktop and virtual machines.
· Resolve various networking issues.
· Improve the process of converting third party virtual machines.
· Address an issue when Parallels Desktop won't start.
· Address an activation issue when upgrading Parallels Desktop.
· Add mouse settings to Parallels Desktop Preferences.
· Resolve printing issues.
· Address issues with unexpected inability to copy and paste between Mac and Windows.
· Resolve an issue when a Boot Camp virtual machine requires to reactivate Windows .
· Address a mouse handling issue that causes incorrect transitions between SmartMouse modes in 3D applications and games.
· Add support for Red Hat 6 and Fedora 14 operating systems.
November 7th, 2010· Parallels Desktop (build 6.0.11828) resolves compatibility issues with Mac OS X 10.6.5.
October 26th, 2010General:
· Fixes an accidental crash that could occur when resuming a suspended virtual machine while running another virtual machine.
· Fixes an issue that caused the virtual machine to hang when working in Live Meeting.
· Resolves a problem with virtual machine failing to start after upgrading from certain versions of Parallels Desktop 4.
· Adds support for Ubuntu 10.10 virtual machines.
Performance:
· Addresses a problem with SMP Windows 7 virtual machines with large amounts of memory.
Games and Graphics:
· Improves the performance of Batman: Arkham Asylum, Europa Universalis III, Civilization V, and other games.
· Addresses problems that could occur when playing Left 4 Dead 2.
· Fixes graphical artifacts in Heroes of Might and Magic V and Jack Keane.
· Fixes an accidental crash of Battlefield Bad Company 2.
· Fixes an accidental crash of Windows Live Movie Maker.
· Fixes an accidental crash and video artifacts in Internet Explorer 9 Beta and enables hardware graphics acceleration.
· Resolves a problem with ArcGIS Explorer in 64-bit Windows 7 virtual machines.
· Fixes an issue with OpenGL in DAZ Studio 3 Advanced.
Sound, Keyboard, and Network Devices:
· Addresses audio latency issues that could occur in certain cases.
· Resolves a problem with the E1000 network card in MS DOS virtual machines.
· Resolves a problem with the Spaces indicator staying on top of other windows in cases of keyboard grab by the virtual machine.
· Resolves a problem with sending the Command+Tab key combination both to Mac OS and the virtual machine.
· Resolves a problem with using keyboard when connected to an external server via remote desktop client software installed in a virtual machine.
Integration:
· Fixes an accidental crash of the virtual machine on Mac OS X 10.5.8 after upgrading Parallels Tools.
· Fixes an accidental issue that caused Windows taskbar to change its location.
· Resolves a problem that caused Parallels Tools to set Central American time forcertain time zones.
· Adds support for Xorg 1.9 to Parallels Tools for Linux.
· Adds support for Parallels Tools installation in Ubuntu 10.10.
Installation:
· Fixes an issue that caused Parallels Tools to require the ksuser.dll file during the installation on Windows XP.
· Fixes an accidental crash of Parallels Desktop Installer on Mac OS X 10.5.8.
· Addresses the problem with removing the previous version of Kaspersky Internet Security.
September 14th, 2010· Resolves a problem with incorrectly enabled parental controls that prevented users from switching to Bridged networking mode.
· Fixes an issue that caused the spinning wheel to appear next to the Logoff button in Preferences > Mobile when the connection with the Parallels Mobile server could not be established.
· Addresses sound artifacts that may occur when using 5.1 Surround Sound.
· Fixes an accidental crash that could occur in Windows 7 running on a SATA virtual disk.
· Fixes an accidental crash that could occur when resuming virtual machines that were suspended in Parallels Desktop 5.
· Resolves a problem with opening Parallels Desktop after allowing it to access the keychain containing the proxy access information.
· Fixes an issue that prevented users from saving files in Shared Folders with names containing special characters.
· Fixes an issue that caused the Num Lock key to have no effect in the virtual machine.
September 2nd, 2010· Fixes compatibility with new Mac Pros based on Intel Xeon Westmere processors.
March 10th, 2010Guest Operating Systems:
· Google Chrome OS support.
Performance:
· Improved performance of WDDM driver.
· Improved performance of virtual machines with Mac OS X Server v10.6.3 and v10.6.2 guest operating systems installed.
· Compatibility issues with Parallels Internet Security installed in virtual machines running on Nehalem-based iMac and Mac Pro were fixed.
· In a clean installation of Windows XP, My Computer opens without delay.
· Waking Mac OS from sleep doesn't affect the Coherence performance.
· Improved virtual hard disk caching mode.
· Spotlight indexing enabled in Mac OS can no longer influence Boot Camp virtual machines booting speed.
· Other performance improvements.
Integration:
· MacLook fixes and improvements.
· Enhanced appearance of the menu in Crystal mode.
· Correct handling of text copied from Mac OS and pasted to a non-Unicode application in the virtual machine.
· Mac OS Desktop Aliases for Windows applications work properly.
· USB Flash devices and CD/DVD network drives can be opened in virtual machines by double-clicking their icons.
· Shared Windows applications are opened correctly when the virtual machine is suspended or paused.
· Improved support for Windows Live Mail.
· Improved handling of shared folders used by OneNote 2007, ProShow, and Marvin Sketch.
Graphics:
· Improved support for OpenGL in Linux virtual machines.
· Star Trek Online is now supported.
· Improved graphical performance of RealFlow in Ubuntu virtual machines.
· Artifacts like transparent 3D games windows in Ubuntu virtual machines were fixed.
· Improved graphics performance in Perforce client.
· Switching view modes while working in Autodesk Inventor does not cause graphical artifacts like black screen.
· White areas of the screen no longer appear in the Tin Soldiers Julius Caesar game.
· Graphical artifacts in the Cube view of Autodesk Inventor 2011 were fixed.
· Problems with video in Internet Explorer 8 when Aero is enabled in Windows 7 were resolved.
· Other graphics improvements.
Network:
· Enhanced compatibility with Cisco VPN.
· FTP upload speed increased.
January 20th, 2010· Fixes stability issues in virtual machines with Parallels Internet Security installed on Nehalem-based iMac and Mac Pro.
· Improves performance of Windows virtual machines.
November 4th, 2009Graphics:
· Windows WDDM driver with DX and OpenGL support: allows you to use Aero theme in Windows Vista and Windows 7 virtual machines in any view mode, including Coherence.
· Multi-monitor support for Windows and Linux guest OSs: Use all displays of your Mac in the virtual machine while in Full Screen and Coherence.
· DirectX 9 Shader Model 3 DirectX 9.0c with Shader Model 3 is supported for Windows virtual machines.
· OpenGL 2.1 support for Linux guest OSs: Applications that require OpenGL (up to version 2.1) can be used in Linux virtual machines.
Virtualization:
· Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit) support
· Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard supported both as host and guest OS. 64-bit Snow Leopard is now supported.
· General performance of virtualization engine improved.
· Improved scalability and performance of SMP.
· 8-way SMP: Users can assign up to 8 virtual CPUs to a single virtual machine.
· Intel VT-x2 (VPIDs, EPT and FlexPriority) support: Intel VT-x2 virtualization technology features support for better performance of virtual machines.
· KVM paravirtualization: improved performance of paravirtualized Linux guest OSs.
· Better handling of Snapshots.
· Improved performance of Boot Camp virtual machines.
· Increased boot speed for Windows virtual machines.
New User Interface:
New Virtual Machine window:
· Quartz Composer animations added.
· Coloring synced with virtual machine list.
· Improved look-and-feel and simplified controls.
Improved Virtual Machine Configuration editor:
· Better-organized settings
· Improved look-and-feel
Improved Parallels Desktop preferences:
· Improved look-and-feel
· Better organized settings
Improved Virtual Machine List:
· Drag-and-drop support Add existing virtual machines by dragging their files to the virtual machines list.
· Virtual Machines ordering using Drag-and-drop Rearrange the list by dragging your virtual machines.
· Colored virtual machines Highlight your virtual machines by applying different colors to them in Finder or in the virtual machines list.
· Simplified Parallels Desktop menu structure: More intuitive menus.
· Active Screen Corners in full screen specify an action to perform when you move the pointer to a screen corner in the full screen mode.
· Lockdown: Lock the Parallels Desktop and virtual machine settings to prevent changes.
· Changes in New Virtual Machine assistant: better organised new virtual machine assistant.
Integration Tools and Features:
· Crystal mode: A view mode that provides you with all the benefits of Coherence and at the same time allows you to hide the Parallels Desktop interface elements and work only with Windows applications side-by-side with your Mac applications.
· Improved Coherence work in Windows programs with incredible performance on all your Mac displays. Aero theme is now fully supported in Coherence.
· MacLook Windows look metamorphosis. Now your Windows programs can look like native Mac applications.
· Improved handling of 3rd party virtual machines VMware and Microsoft Virtual PC virtual machines are automatically added to the virtual machines list and can be easily converted into Parallels virtual machines.
· Smooth upgrade from previous versions Painless upgrade from the previous version of Parallels Desktop, no conversion needed.
· Parallels Icon in the Mac Menu bar: new menu bar icon in Crystal mode allows to access Windows Start Menu straight from Mac menu bar.
· Virtual machine is paused when no applications are running in it: with this feature enabled, the virtual machine will be paused automatically when no Windows applications are in use, causing the CPU and memory resources to be released back to your Mac.
· Windows Applications folder in the Dock: new and simple way to open Windows programs straight from the Mac OS Dock.
· Improved tray notifications in Coherence: You can see the Windows notifications in Coherence.
· Improved Shared Folders: Exchanging data through shared folders has been significantly improved.
· Trackpad Gestures support : multi-touch trackpad gestures (swipe, rotate, pinch) can be used with Windows applications, including MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and others.
· Apple Remote support Apple Remote can control Windows applications like MS Power Point, Windows Media Player, Winamp, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and others.
· Horizontal scrolling: Support for mouse devices that provide horizontal scrolling.
· Virtual Links: Use aliases to Mac OS files from Windows virtual machines.
· Shared Clipboard for Linux guest OSs: Copy items between Linux guest OS and Mac OS.
· Copy & paste formatted text Copy and paste formatted text between different Windows and Linux virtual machines and your Mac: the formatting will be preserved.
· Copy & paste pictures Copy and paste pictures between different Windows and Linux virtual machines and your Mac.
· Improved Drag & Drop: Drag email attachments between Windows virtual machine and Mac OS.
· Improved Shared Profile Windows Movies and Downloads folders are accessible from both Mac and Windows.
· Improved Smart Mount Select which types of devices connected to your Mac should be mounted to Windows as volumes.
· Contextual menu items "Show in Finder" and "Run on Mac" items in the contextual menu for the files stored in Mac OS folders that are shared with Windows virtual machine.
· Isolated virtual machine Allows you to isolate your Mac from the virtual machine for the purpose of security or other reasons.
· Universal keyboard switch: use the same shortcuts to switch keyboard input language in Mac and the virtual machine.
· Keyboard Autocapture keyboard input is automatically captured inside the virtual machine when Parallels Desktop is in focus.
Virtual devices support:
· Improved USB speed: USB speed has significantly increased.
· Improved USB compatibility: more types of USB devices are supported.
· Bridging VLAN on Mac: allows the users to access the Mac OS X VLAN from virtual machines.
· Automatic compressing Automatically reduce the virtual hard disk size as the unused space on it grows.
· Virtual network adapters are not listed in Mac OS System Preferences anymore.
· CAC reader devices support Common access cards are now supported in virtual machines.
· Flexible Boot Camp partitions configuration If you have several Boot Camp partitions, you can choose which to use in the virtual machine.
· Built-in disk resizing tool Now you can change the size of your virtual machine's hard disk directly from the Virtual Machine Configuration the file system of your virtual machine will be resized accordingly.
Guest OS installation:
· Windows 7 express installation: Windows 7 can be installed in unattended mode.
· Linux express installation: Most popular Linux OSs can be installed in unattended mode.
Additional Tools:
· Parallels Transporter: Migrate your physical computer or a 3rd party virtual machine (VMware, Microsoft Virtual PC, or VirtualBox) to a Parallels virtual machine. Microsoft Windows 7 is fully supported.
· New Parallels Image Tool: Allows you to resize the virtual disk and change its format.
· Experimental support for Windows trial virtual machines you can now download Windows virtual machines with trial versions of Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, and Windows Server 2008 operating systems.
August 31st, 2009· 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 7fixed.
· 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.
January 5th, 2009· DirectX 9.0 with Shaders Model 2 support.
· Windows 7 inside the virtual machine (experimental).
· Apple remote disk support.
· Silent start in Coherence.
· Possibility to drag Windows files to Mac applications in the Dock.
· Possibility to remove a virtual machine from the list with a context menu option.
· Possibility to specify CPU and memory options in the New Virtual Machine assistant.
· Possibility to suspend Boot Camp virtual machines with the help of the "disp.allow_to_suspend_bootcamp_vm=1;" system flag.
· Snow Leopard as a primary operating system (experimental).
· Snow Leopard as a guest operating system (experimental).
· Customer Experience Program.
· SSE4 support (better performance for media applications).
November 22nd, 2008· This update contains only bugfixes and improvements (see the Bugfixes and Improvements section).
November 11th, 2008Parallels Desktop 4.0 for Mac enables you to take full advantage of more than 40 new features:
· Modality view mode: In Modality, the virtual machine window becomes transparent and smaller in size. You can easily supervise your virtual machine while installing applications or performing other time-consuming operations in it.
· Clips: This tool enables you to capture some parts of the screen and use the resulting screen shots in Mac OS X or your virtual machine. These screen shots will appear on top of all windows, and will be visible even when the virtual machine in Full Screen.
· Mac OS X inside a virtual machine: Parallels Desktop supports Mac OS Server Leopard inside a virtual machine.
· Speech recognition support: You can start, stop, pause, suspend, and perform other actions with your Parallels virtual machines using the power of your voice.
· Windows taskbar items in Mac OS X menu bar: Windows taskbar items appear in Mac OS X menu bar when the virtual machine is in the Coherence mode.
· Safe Mode: Each virtual machine can be started in safe mode. If something goes wrong in the virtual machine during the work in safe mode, you can restore the virtual machine's initial state.
· iPhone integration: Ability to control virtual machines from an iPhone using the Parallels Mobile application that allows you to manage the virtual machines stored on your Mac via network.
· Better performance: Parallels improves the performance of its virtualization engine.
· PowerSaver: Enhanced power management that increases the work time when running virtual machines on portable computers.
· Improved video and 3D graphics support: Direct X 9.0 and OpenGL 2.1 support. Parallels Desktop supports DirectX Pixel Shaders 2.0. Virtual machine video memory can be now configured up to 256 MB. Video overlay inside the virtual machine is also supported.
· 4-way SMP (experimental 8-way SMP): Up to 4 CPUs can be assigned to a virtual machine, which results in a better performance of your virtual machines. 8-way SMP is supported experimentally.
· Virtual Machine Directory: Completely redesigned virtual machines list that is now integrated with the list of favorite applications.
· Parallels Internet Security: Ability to install the Parallels Internet Security antivirus software empowered by Kaspersky® in your virtual machine and use it for free for a period of one year.
· 64-bit guest OSs support: Parallels Desktop supports 64-bit guest operating systems inside virtual machines. A 64-bit Windows or Linux OS can be used as a guest operating system.
· Full ACPI support: Parallels implements ACPI technology for all guest operating systems that support it. ACPI technology allows the user to gracefully shut down the virtual machine, as well as to see the battery device status inside the guest operating system (on portable Macs).
· Up to 2 TB virtual hard disks: Parallels Desktop supports virtual hard disk drives with capacity up to 2 TB.
· 8 GB RAM support for a virtual machine: A completely new memory allocation mechanism allows to set up to 8 GB of RAM for a single virtual machine.
· PXE boot: Parallels Desktop now supports booting a guest operating system from a network server.
· SDK/API/Scripting: Parallels provides the customers with SDK for Parallels Desktop, Programming API and C/C++ wrapper for API.
· Partitions resizing in Parallels Image Tool: When Image Tools increases the capacity of a virtual hard disk, it can allocate the added space to the last partition on the disk.
· Improved memory management: Virtual machine can now properly work in the over-commit memory state. Overcommittment happens when the total memory size configured for all running virtual machines exceeds the total amount of actual machine memory.
· SCSI: Parallels Desktop supports up to 15 SCSI interfaces for CD/DVD-ROM and hard disk drive devices.
· FAT 32 destination support: Parallels Transporter can migrate or convert the virtual machine to the FAT 32 destination file system. FAT 32 file system has a limitation of 2 GB per one file, which causes Parallels Transporter to migrate or convert the virtual machine's hard disk as a split file.
Improved Parallels Tools: Parallels Tools include the following new components for Mac OS X guest operating system:
· Mouse synchronization for Mac OS X guest operating system
· Ability to change the resolution of Mac OS X guest operating system by resizing the virtual machine's window.
· Time synchronization for Mac OS X guest operating system.
· Shared folders for Linux guest operating systems.
· Shared folders for Mac OS X guest operating system
· Improved GUI: Parallels Desktop allows you to customize its toolbar and provides users with an easy-to-use Virtual Machine Directory that displays the list of all registered virtual machines and all shared applications. The user can see the virtual machine configuration on the fly. Parallels Desktop doesn't close after you shut down a virtual machine, as many other multi-windows applications.
· Improved network capabilities: Up to 16 network adapters can be connected to a single virtual machine. The network connection and data transmission speed increased.
· Virtual machine autostart: Set up your virtual machine to start automatically when you launch Parallels Desktop.
· Recycle Bin integration: Drag files from your Windows virtual machine to Mac OS X Trash, and find them in the Recycle Bin of your Windows virtual machine.
· VirtualBox virtual machines support: Create Parallels virtual machines from VirtualBox virtual machines with Parallels Transporter. View the data stored inside VDI virtual hard disks with Parallels Explorer.
· Command line management tool: Parallels Desktop can be managed from a command line utility used in Terminal, which may be useful in the remote management of enterprise installations.
· Acronis True Image 11 Home: Create an exact copy of your virutal machine for backup purcposes or backup only the important data with Acronis True Image available from the Parallels Desktop installation CD and Parallels website.
· Acronis Disk Director Suite 10.0: Manage your virtual hard disk partitions with Acronis Disk Director Suite available from the Parallels Desktop installation CD and Parallels website.
· SmartGuard: Automate the routine tasks of taking snapshots.
· Shut Down button: The guest operating system can be gracefully shut down using a toolbar button.
· Native Mac help: Parallels Desktop Help appears in the native Mac OS X format.
· Virtual Machines Templates: Simplify the virtual machines provision by creating virtual machine templates that can be deployed to multiple virtual machines.
· Quicklook: Ability to view the state and screen shot of a suspended virtual machine.
· Shortcut menu plug-in for Finder: The applications of a Windows virtual machine are displayed in the virtual machine's shortcut menu in Finder.
· Spotlight plug-in: This plugin prevents Spotlight from indexing the virtual machine files, which may increase the virtual machine's performance.
· USB directory: Ability to maintain the rules for connecting the USB Devices. Choose which devices should be automatically connected to the virtual machine, and which to Mac OS X.
· SmartMount: Parallels Desktop automatically detects the removable drive mounted on Mac OS X desktop, and shares it to the Windows virtual machine.
· Improved Boot Camp support: Seamless reconfiguration of the Boot Camp partition on the fly. Boot Camp partition can be easily used in the Parallels Desktop virtual machines.
· Precompiled kernel modules for Parallels Tools installation inside Linux guest operating systems: Parallels Desktop provides the users with precompiled kernel modules inside Parallels Tools disc image for Linux guest OSs to restrict kernel dependencies errors.
· Rewriting the virtual hard disk image when increasing the disk's capacity: Parallels Image Tool does not create a copy of virtual hard disk while increasing its size, but rewrites it.
· Improved URL links handling: Parallels Desktop allows you to configure the rules of handling the URLs in each virtual machine. You can specify different Internet applications to open news, RSS, feeds, remote sessions, etc.
· New type of key remapping: Parallels Desktop allows a more fine tuning of remapping the key combinations sent to a virtual machine.
· Detecting the type of installation media: Parallels Desktop detects the operating system that can be installed using the installation medium inserted into the optical drive of your Mac or otherwise accessible and creates a virtual machine with this operating system.
· Mac OS X Snow Leopard support (experimental): Mac OS X Server Snow Leopard is experimentally supported as a guest operating system.
· Virtual Machine bundle: a Parallels virtual machine appears now as a file with a PVM extension that contains this virtual machine files.
· SmartInstall: The installer checks for the available updates before installing Parallels Desktop and installs the most recent version.
· Growl integration: Parallels Desktop notification messages can be displayed in the Mac OS Growl notification window.
· Time Machine integration (available on Mac OS X Leopard hosts): In this version, you can add or remove your virtual machines from the Time Machine backup lists.
· Adaptive Hypervisor: Parallels Desktop can change the resources usage focus from the virtual machine to Mac OS X when the virtual machine window is not active and vice versa.
May 9th, 2008· Microsoft Windows Vista SP1 with the Boot Camp support - added
· Microsoft Windows XP SP3 with the Boot Camp support - added
· Kernel panic on Mac Book Air - fixed
· Accidental Mac OS X high CPU usage and bad responsiveness ("IPI stat: rescheduled X CPUs out of Y" issue) - fixed
· Kernel panic when switching on CPUs using CPUPalette - fixed
· SmartSelect: ability to use user-defined Shared Folders instead of using All Mac disks or Home folder - added
Shared Folders improvement:
· Improved transfer speed for SmartSelect
· Inability to copy folders with a custom icon - fixed
· Sharing support for removable drives - added
· Accidental inability to mount Windows disk on the Mac desktop - fixed
· Incorrect installation of MacFUSE - fixed
January 19th, 2008· Fixed: Drag’n’Drop and Copy-Paste between Windows and Mac does not work on MacOS X Tiger 10.4.11 with Security Update 2007-009 installed
· Fixed: Xorg 1.3.0 in newest Linux distributions (such as Ubuntu 7.10, Fedora Core 7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and others) cannot initialize 1600x1200x24 default resolution
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