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Parallels 6 with Lion GM?

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Anyone try this yet? I haven't seen any info on the parallels web site about Lion compatibility.

I have to use parallels for running Ubuntu for grad school work, so this is a big stumbling block for me. I need to know it works before I can upgrade to Lion.

Likewise, any issues with Macports? (even though I hate it....I have some software that relies on that...)
 
Unless I'm just not doing something right, this is what happens when I try to run Parallels 6.

 
Not everyone is having a trouble free time with the GM of Lion and the latest Parallels release. At the very least, there appears to be a problem with spaces and Parallels. Someone had to set spaces to a single desktop, launch Parallels and then set spaces back to multiple.

<rant on>

It is maddening to me that Parallels has not posted a FAQ on whether Lion will/will not run with the current build of Parallels.

I posted in the forum stating the same over a week ago without a reply. Others have posted multiple times in different threads too.

IMHO, Parallels free support just plain sucks. I refuse to pay $19.95 for a support call to an overseas help desk just to ask a simple question if their software will work on the latest release of OS X.

<rant off>
 
cosmos said:
It is maddening to me that Parallels has not posted a FAQ on whether Lion will/will not run with the current build of Parallels.

I posted in the forum stating the same over a week ago without a reply. Others have posted multiple times in different threads too.

IMHO, Parallels free support just plain sucks. I refuse to pay $19.95 for a support call to an overseas help desk just to ask a simple question if their software will work on the latest release of OS X.
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Remember that Lion is still pre-release software and technically I believe large parts of it are still NDA, which is why you won't see any comment from Parallels about it. VMware said a similar thing about Fusion a few weeks back.

Also, since Lion is pre-release, you should know better than to run it on a production box, if that's what you're doing. Parallels digs further down towards the kernel than most other applications so I'm not surprised that the current build doesn't work on 10.7; there are probably lots of changes that the devs need to make to get compatibility sorted.

The Parallels devs will have been receiving the DPs of Lion and the GMs and they will have been making the changes necessary, but you won't see any mention of this until Lion gets a release.
 
BTW: VirtualBox works fine with Lion.

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This is something that used to happen fairly regularly with Parallels and new OS X releases (even point releases): I used to use it but got fed up of issues when I updated OS X.

I moved to Fusion and have found it much more stable: Parallels does seem to wring the last ounce of performance out of the VMs but I wonder at what cost? Fusion has been rock solid for me and works flawlessly with Lion.
 
I have no problems with Parallels 6 on Lion GM on my iMac 2011 27" 3.4GHz.
 
No problems for me with parallels 6 6.012090.
Windows 7.
Macbook pro mid 2010.
 
I don't have lion now, but this afternoon (it's 22:15 here now) when I was trying it, it did not work fine, It loaded the VM and everything but the windows were allways "minimized" and I could only see them using mission control, but only see them, not clicking or any interaction. Version 6.0.12092
 
So Parallels DOES work with Lion? I have sent an email asking but got no reply? I use several Windows programs and MUST have Parallels working before installing Lion.
 
I can only repeat that I have no problems at all with Parallels 6 on Lion. Out of interest, what programs do you 'have' to run in Windows?
 
Almost no problems for me (MBP13 2011)

The only glitch I've seen is when the virtual machine rotates with animations turned on. The graphics get messed up for a few seconds.

Most likely because of the HD3000. Not a show stopper by any means.
 
Swiss-G said:
Running parallels 6 Build 6.0.12092 (Revision 670880; June 26, 2011) without any issues on a 2011 MBP with Lion GM.
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Latest release of Lion GM with the latest Parallels 6 with no problems for me. I use one Windows application for many hours/days at a time so it has to be very stable for me to not notice anything. :D

I can't make any claims for speed, but it doesn't usually feel any slower than it ever has. Lion itself feels very fast.
 
imacken said:
I can only repeat that I have no problems at all with Parallels 6 on Lion. Out of interest, what programs do you 'have' to run in Windows?
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Thanks and since you need to know:D, Healthy Edge, Quicken and Pronto Edit (though I'm changing over to iRule).
 
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