Parallels Desktop for Mac build 3094 Beta 2 is available for download.

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Admin Authentication

Everything seems to be working once I boot to WinXP via Parallels using a BootCamp partition but I have to Authenticate as an Admin User to Start WinXP and also to Shut Down WinXP. The message that pops up says something about needing admin rights to make changes to the virtual machine in both cases. Anyone else experience this?

I have exactly this. I thought that it was due to having two user accounts, but on closer examination it is having a non-admin user and grabbing the OS from bootcamp.

Suggested fixes anyone?

Regards

John

 

[orija]

bad luck

I also am still getting the message
"Unable to open disk image Boot Camp!"

I am on a MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo.
Boot Camp is a FAT partition on the local drive.

I notice now that from the previous beta the Tools which needed to be installed in Windows never installed. On searching around as to why that install failed I found a file called "parallels-bctools-install.log" in it is the following error:

Set Logging to 2
bctool_install() finished with rc 5
Parallels Tools for Boot Camp Setup program cannot find file %s\Driver Cache\i386\driver.cab. This file is required for successful installation of Tools and can be found on Windows XP installation CD.
Setup cannot be continued.

don't know if that has anything to do with anything, but there you go.
oh and also, cryptically, an empty file was left on my C: drive with the title:

Need Install Parallels Tools

???

At any rate I cannot get this beta to run for some reason. I've deleted and re-installed Parallels twice but no go.
any help?

 

[orija]

wow

okay.. so THE SOLUTION WAS FOUND IN THIS THREAD!!!!
http://forum.parallels.com/thread6014-3.html

The Beta Works For Me Now

0.0

edit: or at least... it booted up. will keep you posted.
edit: booted up but the USB mouse and laptop keyboard weren't recognized. so, no easy fix. but i now know that this driver.cab or sp2.cab file is part of what is keeping Parallels from working on my machine.

 

[yogieric]

Should I activate Windows XP? (or wait)

Coherence is so cool! Thanks to all the posts here I was able to get the copy of XP that came with Virtual PC on my old PowerBook migrated to this beta. Virtual PC was so slow it was useless on my Powerbook and when I tried to boot it up my copy of XP there was corrupt so I had to reinstall it. Now I've got 30-days to reactivate windows XP under parallels. I don't know if I'll have to call Microsoft or not. Will the next beta-s/rc-s/final of parallels require re-activation yet again or should I go ahead and activate now?

I just hate calling microsoft and explaining what/why I'm doing something. And I'm marginally concerned their going to give me grief for trying to move my legal copy of XP from my old computer running virtual pc to the new one running parallels.

Thanks!
Eric

 

[vinneh]

after reading through all the "bugs" i have come to the conclusion that parallels betas should be harder to obtain.
some of the problems people are having are caused entirely by their own incompetence.
these people have no business testing development software, they spam the forum with their idiot questions and make it impossible for the dev team and the people who can actually test the product to communicate.

example, people who think that because they cant mount the diskimage they downloaded that its incompatible with a certain version of windows. no.

people who ignore the warnings marked VERY IMPORTANT and fail to remove the earlier parallels tools from their bootcamp partition. READ THE RELEASE NOTES BEFORE SPAMMING THE FORUM

people who dont even know what a service is under windows, and cant even follow a simple instruction.. GO AWAY.

i blame digg.
its a magnet for morons.

 

[charlestrippy]

how to use Favorites..?

So, I can't figure it out -

How do I get it so I can have the windows applications in my OS X dock...the whole favorites thing...

I can't seem to figure it out...

please, any advice/help?

 

[hagen]

Same error for me

Exact same error occured in Beta 1 (error loading operating system). In this I uninstalled the tools before running Parallels.

2.0 GHz Mac Pro, ATI X1900XT, 2 GB Ram, 4 HDDs (boot mac off a Raid 0 Raptor pair), 312 Gb NTFS partion in bay 4. XP Pro with all updates (minus IE 7). Also have Spydoctor and McAfee Security Centre installed; not that the XP boot gets that far.

Also getting "Error loading operating system" when booting from my Boot Camp drive in Parallels. Note when I attempted this with Beta1, it would just crash my system.

- 2.66 ghz Mac Pro
- ATI Radeon X1900 XT
- 4 GB RAM
- 3 HDDs (Boot Camp drive in 4th bay)
- XP pro (32-bit)
- Yes I have uninstalled Parallels Tools for Boot Camp

 

[brkirch]

okay.. so THE SOLUTION WAS FOUND IN THIS THREAD!!!!
http://forum.parallels.com/thread6014-3.html

The Beta Works For Me Now

0.0

edit: or at least... it booted up. will keep you posted.
edit: booted up but the USB mouse and laptop keyboard weren't recognized. so, no easy fix. but i now know that this driver.cab or sp2.cab file is part of what is keeping Parallels from working on my machine.

I was actually able to use this method to get my boot camp installation working. After I had copied driver.cab and renamed the copy to sp2.cab parallels allowed me to boot windows instead of displaying the unable to open image error. Neither the keyboard or mouse worked at first, but after about a minute the keyboard started working. Since the mouse wasn't working I decided to try installing parallels tools to see if it would fix it. Well after selecting 'Install Parallels Tools...' from the 'Actions' menu the dialog that would usually display when first booting windows during an express install appeared. The parallels tools were automatically installed and ever since windows rebooted after that everything now works!

 

[luomat]

Do your homework / Show your work

So, I can't figure it out - How do I get it so I can have the windows applications in my OS X dock...the whole favorites thing... I can't seem to figure it out... please, any advice/help?

"Can't figure it out"?

What did you try?

Did you try, say, looking in the app preferences panel?

Or did it not immediately work as you expected it would so you posted to the forum for someone to tell you the answer?

Unless you give some indication of what you tried, we don't really know.

Are you using Coherence Mode? Do you have the setting turned on in Preferences?

 

[mkap73]

"Unable to open disk image Boot Camp!"

I am getting the dreaded "Unable to open disk image Boot Camp!" message when trying to start a FAT32 Boot Camp partition too...

I am on Windows XP Pro Corporate. What version of Windows XP are others using who are getting the same message?

MBP C2D 2.33 2gb RAM

P.S. I got it to work by copying the drivers.cab file and renaming it sp2.cab trick as seen in another thread. I had to install Parallels tools from the menu before my trackpad/mouse would work... Seems to be working (have booted several times natively and from Parallels) with no activation issues...

 

[gripworks]

Activation issued

Well having searched and tried as many different solutions as possible I think I may have a unique problem.

When trying to boot to bootcamp vm it says I only have 3 days to activate, no problem i figure I can just re-activate, however neither the mouse nor the keyboard work to click the message window leaving me at a loss.

Any ideas?

Thanks

MBP
WinXP Pro
Never got bootcamp to work in previous builds.

 

[vinneh]

Well having searched and tried as many different solutions as possible I think I may have a unique problem.

When trying to boot to bootcamp vm it says I only have 3 days to activate, no problem i figure I can just re-activate, however neither the mouse nor the keyboard work to click the message window leaving me at a loss.

Any ideas?

Thanks

MBP
WinXP Pro
Never got bootcamp to work in previous builds.

your issue is not unique, it has been resolved. look harder.

 

[charlestrippy]

"Can't figure it out"?

What did you try?

Did you try, say, looking in the app preferences panel?

Or did it not immediately work as you expected it would so you posted to the forum for someone to tell you the answer?

Unless you give some indication of what you tried, we don't really know.

Are you using Coherence Mode? Do you have the setting turned on in Preferences?

i think i figured it out..

 

[wingdo]

Originally posted by BladeRunner
The hardware is not Apple Mac - I can't afford one just yet - still saving. As for the "pirated" issue, it's a matter of opinion. The unopened full retail boxed version of OS X 10.4.8 that I purchased from a store did not look pirated.

Actually, it was...
You can only buy 10.4.6
You CANNOT buy any Intel version of Mac OS X
The license says it is for running on APPLE hardware...
So any way you want to slice it, you are running an illegitimate copy (something that came with a hardware purchase, not something you bought in a store) on unsupported hardware.

BUSTED!

You are correct .... Since Every Intel Mac already comes with the Intel version of OS X you cannot actually buy OS X for Intel. ANY copy running on non Apple hardware is pirated s/w.

 

[wmahla]

I installed Beta2 over Beta1. Started my VM. Got the message to update my tools to the latest version. I ran the installer for the new tools. The installer starts and seems to be installing the new tools, but then just sits-- never completes. I force stop the VM and restart, the new tools seem to be there. Everything is fine, the new beta seems faster than beta1, but coherence does not work. The threads about this don't seem to apply to me. When I try to do the 'sc delete "parallels coherence service" I get an error saying that the service is not installed. When I try to install the service by running c:\Program Files\Parallels\Parallels Tools\cohrence.exe" (note spelling error), I get one of two errors - either 1063 can't connect to the service controller" or 1060 "the specified service is not installed". How do I install the coherence service? Thanks!

 

[rajulkabir]

Interference with DVD mounting?

Since installing the upgrade, I've noticed that it blocks DVDs from being mounted and visible to the Mac finder.

I have XP running in Parallels.

If I insert a DVD, I get Windows Explorer asking me what to do with it. But it never shows up to Mac apps. Once I suspend the virtual machine, the DVD immediately mounts in the Mac world.

This is definitely different behaviour from what I've seen before. Is it some sort of new feature that I can adjust, or is it a bug?

 

[dechamp]

Hey vinneh... your attitude and that of others who have a similar approach to assisting newbies is worse than worthless. These beta's are being released by the developer in order to try to design a product that will work "MacLike" with many hardware/software installations, just like most PC programs have to do. It's a necessary evil when you try to work with Windows. In addition, Boot Camp itself is just a beta.

What you need is a private forum for you and other 'elite' users where you can laugh or bitch about the problems that some are having without actually having to get your hands dirty.

There are many PC users that need to run software without having to know what a service is. This software is not a free beta, but rather a fairly expensive utility program that claims to be able to do quite a few tricks. It sorta works, but there are quite a few kinks and I don't think you know how to fix them all.

In the time it took to beat up on a guy with a question, you might have actually pointed him/her (and many others) in the right direction, of course that would have meant that you would have to look up a reference...

Don't you ever think about the person before you hit the post key?

 

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Hey vinneh... your attitude and that of others who have a similar approach to assisting newbies is worse than worthless. These beta's are being released by the developer in order to try to design a product that will work "MacLike" with many hardware/software installations, just like most PC programs have to do. It's a necessary evil when you try to work with Windows. In addition, Boot Camp itself is just a beta.

Very well written!

I would have thought the whole idea of a PUBLIC beta is to get users of mixed abilities trying the software and then watching as issues get identified and homefully resolved. Some issues will be be genuine bugs, other issues will be installation and perhaps configuration problems, and some will simply require more explanatory documentation. A wide public beta program that includes the highly experienced and the not so experienced will simply flush out more problems.

Well done to the Parallels team. Well done to the users who take the trouble to assist their colleagues in the beta program. To the grumpy few that bitch at others inexperience - lighten up it is the holiday season!

 

[cpuser]

Also 3094 Beta 2 can not communicate with my Garmin ForeRunner 305.
And this device is the one and only reason to have a Windows on my mac. So I have to give an other solution than parallels a chance

 

[Olivier]

Also 3094 Beta 2 can not communicate with my Garmin ForeRunner 305.
And this device is the one and only reason to have a Windows on my mac. So I have to give an other solution than parallels a chance

It might be more effective and useful to insist on Garmin so they provide software for Mac OS X too. Needing Windows on your Mac just for this looks... strange.