Copy-Paste occasionally stops working ...

Discussion in 'Windows Virtual Machine' started by Ensorceled, Aug 4, 2008.

  1. Ensorceled

    Ensorceled Junior Member

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    Since the last update I've been very happy, XP has been very stable and any annoying problems have been related to XP rather than Parallels.

    One issue I am still seeing occasionally is that suddenly copy/paste between xp and mac os x will stop working. Suddenly their clipboards become disconnected and the copy buffers are independent.

    Is this an known issue? Anybody know a work around?

    The only solution I've found is to restart the hosted os (XP).

    Rob.
     
  2. John@Parallels

    John@Parallels Forum Maven

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    Please add more Video memory (up to 64 mb), and also you can try to reinstall Parallels Tools
     
  3. Ensorceled

    Ensorceled Junior Member

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    Video memory is 256Mb already. The parallel tools were reinstalled with the last update do you think something went wrong with the installation process? This has been happening for several updates now ...
     
  4. John@Parallels

    John@Parallels Forum Maven

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    What do you mean Video memory 256 mb? I mean Video memory for Virtual Machine
    Configuration Editor - Memory
     
  5. Ensorceled

    Ensorceled Junior Member

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    More information ... it also makes the XP session hang on shutdown.

    Force quitting Parallels is the only option.

    The copy/paste is still broken on restarting Parallels, I need to restart OSX as well.

    Increasing video to 64mb does not help, problem still occurs.
     
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