Hi. I use Parallels, the latest version. On OSX 10.5.4, iMac 24 inch with 4GB memory. I have setup Windows XP Pro with 512MB of RAM as the guest machine. Currently, I have installed only Firefox 3.0, ZoneAlarm, AVG, and Spybot. All basically safety tools for the Internet and FF a necessity. Moreover, I have disabled Outlook Express, MSN Explorer, and MSN Messenger. With this much resource available to the guest system, and nothing much going on inside it, the virtual window still flickers sometimes. Any reason for this? What can I do to circumvent this? I am running in Coherence mode, which btw is supercool. Thanks for any pointers!
This is not resource problem. I suppose build is still old version(may be several drivers) download build 5608 following link bellow: http://download.parallels.com/v3/en/GA/Parallels-Desktop-5608-Mac-en.dmg and reinstall Parallels Desktop as described in kb http://kb.parallels.com/en/4790
also after you install latest build of Parallels make sure to install Parallels tools on your windows machine. It should start tools installation once you start vm after Parallles upgrade but if it does not choose Actions > install parallels tools from menu.
Thanks! Thanks for both the tips. Yes, installing the update worked! And the tools are now automatically installed inside of Windows. Fantastic. It's seamless to go from Windows to OSX and back! Loving it. Only thing now is that it often opens up in a full screen type mode, and I have to manually make it "single window". Can I stipulate somewhere in some setting that I only and always want single window? Thanks!
Parallels Desktop -<Virtual Machine name>-Edit-Virtual Machine -Options - Booting -Startup mode -Single window
Thanks, that worked. One final dumb question for the day: I usually just "suspend" the VM by doing a COMMAND Q on the Parallels windows, because when I restart windows xp in the future it starts up super fast. If I "stop" the VM, then Windows xp goes through an entire boot process next time. So naturally I prefer the suspend mode. I just wanted to confirm that this suspend mode is not harmful or risky in any way in terms of causing problems? Can I cheerfully continue to suspend VMs instead of stopping them?
