I'm running a Mac Pro, leopard 10.5.4 and was running parallels 5584 without much problem. I'd wisely ignored the prompt to upgrade to 5608 (isn't it the latest build?). I realized that my version wasn't supposed to be compatible with Leopard, but it did work. One day parallels wouldn't run because the HDD file was corrupted. So I was stuck with re-installing 5584, windows xp, etc, which I did. The system ran, but there were problems with graphics not displaying properly. So I made a snapshot and then answered the siren song of upgrade. ON installing 5608 which failed a few times but finally succeeded, the system would freeze when opening the windows environment. Even FORCE QUIT wouldn't kill the program. I had to log out. So I uninstalled 5608 and re-installed from the 5584 disk image. Again it froze and when I tried it again, it said I was running 5608. Unistall, put the 5608 image in the trash, reinstall 5584 and again it said that 5608 was running. Uninstalled again, put the image in the trash, emptied the trash, re-installed 5584. Again, it said I was running 5608. Finally, uninstalled yet again, put the 5608 image in the trash, emptied the trash, REBOOTED my mac and reinstalled 5584. Now it says it's running 5584! But trying to open the environment freezes and won't force quit. Moving to a previous snapshot and the snapshot manager freezes and won't force quit. Got up, walked around the block, tried to revert to a previous snapshot and finally it worked! So now I've got 5584 running, still w/ graphics problems but running. I only use parallels to run quicken for heaven's sake. I'm tempted to go out and buy a cheapo windows laptop since quicken doesn't need much power and hope someday the bozos at Intuit will make the mac version file compatible. That's really irritating, of course. Is there any way to upgrade to a version of Parallels that's compatible with Leopard without a near mental breakdown? Where do I go from here? Should I just stay with 5584?
Please 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 Exactly follow steps in article
thanks for the advice but... I must say that an upgrade path that requires using terminal suggests a less than robust system. I think I'll see if I can hold on w/ 5584
Sorry for the snarky response earlier... I continued to have problems, so I followed your instructions and all appears well, 5608 in place. One comment: the whole process needed to be done in an adminstrative level acct. I've gotten lazy and done installations in my usual user level acct with authentication when needed. That was a mistake... Thanks for your help!
