Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 12th Nov 2008 08:51 UTC, submitted by RavinRay
Yesterday, Parallels unveiled Parallels Desktop 4.0. The virtualisation tool for the Mac. Parallels allows you to run several operating systems 'on top' of Mac OS X, similar to VMware, Qemu, and other similar tools. Version 4.0 comes packed with new features and improvements.
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2005-11-10
I'm having a bad time with it. Everything has become more gimmicky, and less stable.
Upgrading a Virtual Machine masks the VM with a stupid Windows-installer like splash screen, so you can't see if something on your screen is interfering with the install (Like TeaTimer).
The upgrade failed for me, and I had to install manually, which was fraught with its own problems, as now after a minute of using the VM, the mouse and keyboard stop working and the only way I could get the rest of the drivers installed was to plug in a USB keyboard and pipe it into the VM.
Now my perfectly stable 3.0 VM is an unusable 4.0 VM, and unless there's a patch soon, I'm going to have to time machine my way back to 3.0.
I think the difference between Fusion and Parallels has always been that VMWare understand that stability and accuracy comes first, then bling.