By ray | December 5, 2007
Parallels released build 5582 (RC1 was Build 5580) for Parallels Desktop 3 for the Mac which is the latest production release. I downloaded and installed the update, and I’m running Windows Live Writer in it now. The list of fixes is everything since the last production release so it’s hard to say what changed [...]
By ray | December 4, 2007
Parallels has released Build 5580 for Parallels Desktop 3. It’s a release candidate for their Leopard compatible version. Since it’s still beta software it won’t appear in automatic update.
Parallels hasn’t run well for me since upgrading to Leopard so I’ve been installing the betas. The previous release, Build 5570, was basically unusable for me, but [...]
By ray | November 26, 2007
Parallels has released Parallels 3 Beta Build 5570, it’s available from their beta download page.
Most of the improvements over the previous beta center around Leopard compatibility. I’d been having problems with Parallels under Leopard which had driven me to start using VMware Fusion almost exclusively. Most of my really annoying issues have seemed to revolve [...]
By ray | October 29, 2007
Just as Time Machine was beginning to grow on me as a viable backup option I ran into my first annoyance. And it is annoying.
Until now Time Machine ran almost unnoticed by me. But tonight I had a Parallels VM open for several hours. The good news is that Time Machine didn’t seem to be [...]
By ray | October 29, 2007
Due to the time and hassle of rebuilding my Parallels Desktop(aff) VMs I wanted to use the VMs I had already created. This was simple to accomplish. I didn’t do anything special to prepare but all my VMs were shut down the last time I used them, not just suspended. I also didn’t have any [...]
Posted in OS X 10.5 Leopard | Also tagged leopard |
By ray | October 27, 2007
I’ve finally encountered my first real upgrade problems. I installed Windows XP Pro SP2 under Boot Camp. Then I installed Parallels 3 and told it to use my Boot Camp partition for a virtual machine. Then the problems began. Parallels hangs up when starting the VM and Boot Camp no longer boots because it looks [...]
Posted in Quick Bits | Also tagged leopard |
