Parallels Desktop 4.0.3846
WHAT'S NEW
Version 4.0.3846: This release contains only bug fixes and improvements. No new features.
Support for creating virtual machines with Mac OS X Leopard Server and Snow Leopard Server on Nehalem-based Mac Pros and Xserves—added.
Support for creating Boot Camp virtual machines with Windows Vista SP2—added.
Support for creating Boot Camp virtual machines with Windows 7—added.
Support for running Windows 7 in virtual machines—improved.
Windows 7 system tray icons—improved.
Express installation of Windows 7—added.
Shared profile issues in Windows 7—fixed.
Direct printing feature in Windows 7—fixed.
Sound card support in Windows 7—fixed.
Other Windows 7 improvements and bugfixes.
Support for running Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server in virtual machines—fixed.
Problems with installing Parallels Tools in the Ubuntu Linux 9.04 guest OS—fixed.
Support for using Mac OS X Snow Leopard (including the 64-bit version) on host computers—improved.
A number of bugs for using Parallels Desktop and running virtual machines on host computers with Mac OS X Snow Leopard fixed. Most important bugs are listed below:
QuickLook plug-in crashes when trying to preview the contents of a PVM bundle
(the crash is invisible for the user).
The update may fail to install the downloaded updates for Parallels Desktop 4.0.
Parallels Mounter and Explorer may fail to open Parallels Desktop disk images.
It may be impossible to connect to the virtual machine from the iPhone client.
Creating a virtual machine snapshot may take a very long time.
Opening a web link from inside a Windows-based virtual machine in Mac Safari using the Shared Internet Applications feature may result in appending garbage to the link.
On 64-bit host computers, connecting a USB device to a virtual machine may cause a kernel panic.