What's New in Parallels Desktop 3.0 for Mac (Build 4560)
Parallels Desktop 3.0 for Mac includes the following new features and feature improvements:
• Coherence 2.0 - Run your Windows and Mac OS X applications in single integrated
environment
• Image Tool - Add capacity to your virtual disk image
• SmartSelect - Open your files in Mac OS X or Windows with any available Mac OS X
or Windows application
o Shared Applications and SmartSelect options in Configuration Editor were
redesigned: you can now enable/disable all options
o Shared Applications and SmartSelect options in the Applications menu were
redesigned: you can now access Windows Start menu and the list of recently
opened Windows applications, as well as configure SmartSelect without starting a
particular Windows application.
Bugfixes and improvements in Parallels Desktop 3.0 for Mac
(Build 4560)
The most important fixes and improvements include:
• 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
• Video and 3D
o No textures in some games (like Max PayneTM) - fixed
o Some games crash on nVidia® video cards - fixed
o VM cannot suspend after iTunes® upgrade to 7.3 due to incorrect DirectX®
detection - fixed
o Pixel size calculation - improved: graphics are displayed correctly in Microsoft
AccessTM
o Performance of some CAD/CAM applications (including SolidWorks®) -
improved
o Multi-threaded CAD/CAM applications now show workspace correctly. The list
of applications includes, but not limited to, AutoCAD®, 3D Studio MAX®,
CATIA V5, PowerSHAPE, Zemax®, Pro/ENGINEER® and many others
o Vertical Sync enabled (this will result in benchmarks performance cut-off at 60
FPS, but will provide less resources usage and less artifacts when resizing screen)
• Boot Camp
o Detection of the operating system installed in Boot Camp - improved
o Vista reinstalls ACPI PC on each restart - fixed
• Snapshots
o Delete with children (recursive delete) option added
o Possible corruption of the .xml file included in the bundle .hdd during reversion to
snapshot - fixed
• Parallels Explorer
o Many segmentation fault cases were fixed
o Correct handling of non-NTFS file systems added
o Many look and feel improvements
• Other fixes
o Having USB device in configuration significantly (by 30%) increases Parallels
Desktop CPU usage for Vista guest OS - fixed
o Mouse gets automatically ungrabbed if Vista had been put into sleep mode from
inside the virtual machine
o Correct tools for eComStationTM 1.2 included
o Windows® 98 restart hangs - fixed
o Parallels Tools installation changes default printer in Windows - fixed
o Compatibility with Microsoft® LiveMeeting - fixed
o Mouse issues with Flex/Flash drag-n-drop - fixed
o Shared folders: Changing file extension affects the dates in the file info - fixed
o Shared folders: Cannot use mkdir a\b\c in the mapped Parallels Shared Folder
disk - fixed
o Shared folders: Cannot open file with brackets in the filename from a shared
folder - fixed
o Compatibility with MacFUSE 0.4 - fixed
o Animation transitions between view modes (Full Screen, Guest OS Window,
Coherence) improved for better look and feel
o Parallels Tools for Linux: time synchronization tool added
o Virtual machine sometimes crashes when working with hard disks connected to
IDE 1:0 and IDE 1:1 channels - fixed
o Bugreports are now sent via default Mac mail client
o In rare cases Mac OS hangs for some time after sleep if Parallels Desktop is
running - fixed
o Image Tool added - now it is possible to increase virtual HDD capacity
