Parallels 2.2.1940.0 released: USB improvements, enhanced Leopard, Vista support

Parallels Desktop 2.2.1940.0 has been released, bringing improved Windows Vista and Leopard. The full list of enhancements is as follows:

• Works on any Intel-Mac with any memory configuration with no system modification. This includes Mac Pros with up to 16GB of RAM, and the full line of Core 2 Duo iMacs
• Support for Windows Vista as a guest OS
• Support for Mac OS X 10.5 'Leopard' as a Primary OS
• Better USB support, including support for isynchronous devices and Windows Mobile 5 devices
• Solaris guest OS no longer hangs after suspend/resume
• An improved Parallels Tools package
• Full support for OpenBSD 3.8 as a guest operating system
• G4U hard disk cloning tool now works in virtual machines
• Better video output improvement and acceleration
• Added multi interface USB devices support (including Windows Mobile 2005 devices)
• Added isochronous USB devices support (including WebCam devices)
• Keyboard support improvement: Eject CD key support, left/right Shift/Ctrl/Alt (Option)/Windows keys difference support
• Added virtual disk cache policy option: Mac OS X performance optimized or guest OS performance optimized
• Image Tool fixes
• Optimized disk cache policy for Suspend/Resume feature
• Windows ME Suspend/Resume fix
• Shared Folders first time access acceleration
• Clipboard synchronization tool fixes (unreadable symbols sometimes added during copy and paste)
• Sound playback and recording improvement
• ?Unable to allocate virtual memory? during virtual machine power on fix

The update is available as a 29.3 MB standalone download.

For more coverage, see our Parallels product page.

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