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 v10.6.2

guest operating systems installed.

- Compatibility issues with Parallels Internet Security installed in virtual machines

running 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 virtual

machines 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-Unicode

application 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 by

double-clicking their icons.

- Shared Windows applications are opened correctly when the virtual machine is

suspended or paused.

- Improved support for Windows Live Mail.

- Improved handling of shared folders used by OneNote 2007, ProShow, and Marvin

Sketch.

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 graphical

artifacts 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 were

resolved.

- Other graphics improvements.

Network

- Enhanced compatibility with Cisco VPN.

- FTP upload speed increased.