Crash when copying to clipboard from virtual XP

Discussion in 'Parallels Desktop for Mac' started by milesce, Apr 17, 2006.

  1. milesce

    milesce Member

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    Hi. Thought I should report an odd bug. When I'm running Win XP inside a virtual machine, I'm getting a strange crash. I've duplicated it multiple times now.

    The steps to cause the crash where:

    1) View a page I'm debugging in internet explorer

    2) Select View Source

    3) CTRL-A to select all

    4) CTRL-C to copy to clipboard

    5) Click (outside the Virtual Machine window) on my dreamweaver icon in the dock to switch back to dreamweaver

    Parralels instantly dies, and I have to restart it and boot my XP again.
     
  2. Andrew @ Parallels

    Andrew @ Parallels Parallels Team

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    Thanks for reporting - we'll investigate it.
     
  3. milesce

    milesce Member

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    Thanks. I should mention I'm using Beta 3, with Mac OS 10.4.6 on a macbook pro, 2 Gb ram.
     
  4. mlandel

    mlandel Member

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    I had the same thing happen to me.

    I was using Matlab in Win2000 SP4 within the VM. As soon as I did a ctrl-c to copy, the VM died.
    I wasn't on-line at the time so it's not clear to me how to send the log that was dumped after I re-booted the VM.

    I am presuming that anything over a certain size will cause the error - I'm going to try to avoid this until I see anything about this issue being resolved.

    I recognize that somewhere in the docs was a stated limitation on the size of the shared copy/pate buffer.
     
  5. mlandel

    mlandel Member

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    I also have the same HW configuration. MBP 2.0, 2GB, OS 10.4.6
     
  6. Andrew @ Parallels

    Andrew @ Parallels Parallels Team

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    This issue is supposed to be fixed in Beta4. Please report if not.
     

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