I'm looking at switching to Parallels 7.x from VMWare 4.x because when using Mac OS X Lion as a guest OS under VMWAre, I've been having some nasty problems with VMWare crashing and locking up (and having to reboot since force quitting doesn't seem to actually force the virtual machine to stop).
Unfortunately, it looks like Parallels 7 has two huge bugs that have not been fixed since the September release (at least according to the posts on this forum):
1) No copy and paste between the host Mac OS X Lion and the guest Mac OS X Lion.
2) The Shared Folders seems really buggy to transfer files back and forth between the guest and host. Most of the time I'll copy files from guest to host and it'll show the files as they are copying (on the host and guest), but as soon as it finishes copying, the files disappear (again from both the guest and host). And on top of that, occasionally the Share Folders window will stop listing the shared folders and only a restart of the guest OS will help restore them.
I've tried all kinds of different settings in the Shared Folders area, but nothing seems to help.
Since I'm still using a trial, I can't submit a ticket to tech support regarding this (Parallel's support mechanism seems a bit over-complicated to me), but it doesn't sound like Parallels is acknowledging the problem or working on a fix.
Anyone heard anything from them or can I assume Parallels doesn't intend to fix these problems? At least with VMWare I can probably get them to troubleshoot the hang problems I'm having, but I wanted to see if Parallels would be a quicker fix.
Unfortunately, it looks like Parallels 7 has two huge bugs that have not been fixed since the September release (at least according to the posts on this forum):
1) No copy and paste between the host Mac OS X Lion and the guest Mac OS X Lion.
2) The Shared Folders seems really buggy to transfer files back and forth between the guest and host. Most of the time I'll copy files from guest to host and it'll show the files as they are copying (on the host and guest), but as soon as it finishes copying, the files disappear (again from both the guest and host). And on top of that, occasionally the Share Folders window will stop listing the shared folders and only a restart of the guest OS will help restore them.
I've tried all kinds of different settings in the Shared Folders area, but nothing seems to help.
Since I'm still using a trial, I can't submit a ticket to tech support regarding this (Parallel's support mechanism seems a bit over-complicated to me), but it doesn't sound like Parallels is acknowledging the problem or working on a fix.
Anyone heard anything from them or can I assume Parallels doesn't intend to fix these problems? At least with VMWare I can probably get them to troubleshoot the hang problems I'm having, but I wanted to see if Parallels would be a quicker fix.