What's New in Parallels Desktop 3.0 for Mac Beta (Build 5060)
Parallels Desktop 3.0 for Mac includes the following new features and feature improvements:
‧ Coherence 3.0 - Run your Windows and Mac OS X applications in single integrated environment
o Each Windows application window opens as a separate Mac window
o Correct Z-order support for all windows
o Expose support
o Mac-style drop shadow support (foreground window has deeper shadow)
o Transparent windows support
o Silent boot in Coherence mode when clicking on virtual machine alias
‧ Multi-user support - Share your virtual machines with other Mac OS X users
‧ Empty Windows Recycle Bin - Empty Windows recylcle bin directly from the Application menu
‧ Show Windows Desktop - Show Windows desktop in Coherence mode directly from the Application menu
‧ Configurable Sound - Allows you to use headset within virtual machine with highest sound quality
‧ Boot Camp compatible key mapping - Boot Camp key combinations substitute specific Windows keys like Insert, Print Screen and so on
‧ Virtual keyboard – send key combinations to virtual machine in one click
‧ Apple iPhone support - synchronize contacts, scheduler, mail and media between your Windows virtual machine and your iPhone
‧ Parallels Transporter - Migrate your Linux PC to a Parallels virtual machine
‧ Parallels Explorer
o Suspended virtual machines support
o Improved drag-and-drop, copying/deleting operations
‧ Parallels Image Tool - Manages properties of your virtual disk image
o Changes your virtual disk format and properties
o Merges virtual disk snapshots
Bugfixes and improvements in Parallels Desktop 3.0 for Mac Beta (Build 5060)
The most important fixes and improvements include:
‧ Stability and resources usage
o Kernel Panics on Mac Mini when VT-x is disabled - fixed
o Some fatal errors during virtual machine startup - fixed
o Fatal error during browsing specific websites - fixed
o Windows 98 high CPU usage - fixed
o HDD corruption after disk converting - fixed
‧ SmartSelect and Shared Applications
o Some correct file associations in Mac (like .doc association with Microsoft® Office Word for Mac) reset and switch to Parallels Desktop - fixed
o Errors when opening certain file types in Mac (like .msg files from Microsift Office Outlook 2007) - fixed
o Detection of the file types that don't have associations in Mac - improved
o SmartSelect and Shared Applications configuration options added
o SmartSelect now correctly recognizes default web browser in Mac
‧ 3D and video
o Several segmentation faults during playing games - fixed
o Crashes of some applications caused by DirectX drivers - fixed
‧ Parallels Tools
o Parallels Tools installation on Windows 95 crashes - fixed
o Parallels Tools Center crashes caused by some applications - fixed
o Other installation errors fixes
‧ Parallels Explorer
o Sorting - improved
o Added Extentional Searching procedure for Columns and Tree views
Known issues in Parallels Desktop 3.0 for Mac (Build 5060)
‧ Primary OS support
o Leopard (only build 9a499) may become unusable after installing Parallels Desktop
‧ Snapshot Manager
o Accidental segmentation faults during reverting to old snapshots
o Some snapshots can't be deleted
‧ Video and 3D
o Bad performance in several applications
o No textures in several games
‧ Coherence
o Glitches in Expose
o Low picture quality in different applications
o Minimize applications to Dock is not supported yet
‧ Parallels Transporter
o Only GRUB 0.97 supports during applying hardware changing
o Applies hardware changes to only Linux which uses initrd
‧ Parallels Explorer
o Segfault occurs when the file(s) is Drag-and-Droped to Columns view space
o There are no changes in View when the folder with virtual disk or virtual machine was replaced
o If .pvs/.vmdk file was replaced on Macintosh HD it disappeares in Parallels Explorer View.
o Sometimes Parallels Explorer View may be empty
o Segmentation fault when open multiple Parallels Explorer windows
‧ Parallels Image Tool
o Documentation is not refreshed
o Problem with converting old image format with installed guest tools to new one: BSOD occurs in Resulting Windows Virtual machine
o After converting your HDD may become corrupted
o Merge snapshots works not always
