Virtualization Times

 Meatloaf is one of those home cooked dishes that is packed with spices and other ingredients and yet it tastes delicious. We are here to unpack the tasty Parallels Desktop 5 build 9344 as it was just released steaming fresh from our developers oven today. The following are the new enhanced features: Guest 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 v10.6.2guest operating systems installed.- Compatibility issues with Parallels Internet Security installed in virtual machinesrunning 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 virtualmachines 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-Unicodeapplication 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 bydouble-clicking their icons.- Shared Windows applications are opened correctly when the virtual machine issuspended or paused.- Improved support for Windows Live Mail.- Improved handling of shared folders used by OneNote 2007, ProShow, and MarvinSketch.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 graphicalartifacts 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 wereresolved.- Other graphics improvements.Network- Enhanced compatibility with Cisco VPN.- FTP upload speed increased.