I want a refund too.
Does anyone know any influential bloggers / internet-news outfits? This needs to be brought to the greater interwebs attention - "Parallels doesn't actually support Linux." Without such a public "tar-and-feathering," nothing is going to happen.
When they finally do fix-it - it will be "too-little, too-late," and the annual Parallels collection-box will begin circulating again. "If you want the fix - upgrade!"
I'm willing to take the performance hit over support vs. "lip-service" support we get with Parallels. It comes down to what is practical. No matter how "buttery-smooth" Parallels may run when it works properly (on the very short list of supported distros) - the fact of the matter is that it currently does not even work properly on its documented-supported distros.
You can increase your VM's graphics to 256MB - just edit the *.vbox xml entry - though this makes little observable difference. Note though, 256MB is the upper ceiling on the graphics-memory. Having said that - you are right - VirtualBox does incur a graphics performance hit. At least it works though.
While it is good that Elementary OS works - I would guess this is a fluke, as opposed to by design on Parallels part. I would like to be using some newer than 2-year-old libraries - which is why I want Arch support.
BTW - just updated my kernel to 3.12 yesterday on my VirtualBox Arch VM. Nice!
Last edited: Nov 16, 2013