bye parallels. hello virtualbox!

Subj.

No, really. I don't get it. Why free software works more stable than software I paid for around $80. Here is what problems I've got with Parallels:

1. every other boot can't get an IP address on the network
2. every time Windows boots up - shared folders are mounted as different letters and no, I'm not adding/deleting shared folders. this messes up everything for me.
3. too many crashes with last build 5600
4. No one even bothers to check documentation before posting - ie http://kb.parallels.com/en/4790 (rm -r required for the removal of all .kexts - they're in fact folders, not files.
5. no support for ubuntu 8 yet


so I decided to try Sun's VirtualBox VM 1.62 - I was amazed with the application. I didn't pay a penny for it, but everything worked as I expected. Yes, there are some things not present in version for MacOS, some things require manual work (like mounting shared folders), but it works and works the way I need it to work.

Good bye Parallels! I'll miss my $80...

 

The 'rm' missing the -r in the knowledge base article is a very serious fault on behalf of Parallels. Here we have been on this forum discussing the upgrade from 5600 to 5604 and John@Parallels constantly pointing people to that article to resolve issues which that article apparently doesn't resolve.

By the way, maybe it would be easier to just fix disk permissions before uninstalling Parallels and the issue with .kexts would never happen.

 

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Hello valeshka
Interesting, must admit I am a bit ticked off with Parallels at the moment.

Are you using Leopard?
Are you installing Windows XP?
Andre

 

Because apparently 5604 isn't 'official', which is puzzling, if you go to the download page it's still 5600.

 

Thank you, this will be fixed
And I agree permissions repair is almost always helpful

 

Thank you John.

 

I have both XP SP3 and Ubuntu. Both of them give me "interesting" problems after installing 5600.

 

Just wondering, what would be a reason for permissions to break, that fixing is required? I had no problems with permissions and still have some troubles with the Parallels? How about latest version of Ubuntu? Script to install Parallels tools, shipped with 5600 and previous builds doesn't work at all.

 

The permissions reference is related to the possibility of Parallels uninstaller being unable to delete the .kexts referenced in the kb article.

 

I was under impression, that Uninstaller requesting administrative rights, ie can act as administrator (root) to delete those kexts...

 

It is normal, several application during uninstallation asks administrative password (not root)

 

I think vasechka logic is that if it asks for password and has administrative rights it could delete those files even if the permissions were messed up.