Parallels Desktop for Mac build 3106 Beta 3 is available for download.
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Front Page rendering still broken
I'm glad that this problem is fixed in beta 3, but the problem I have reported within thread http://forum.parallels.com/thread5898.html and twice from with in the program where in editable forms in FrontPage are not rendered as the should be, and are, on a "real" windows PC still exists in this beta.
timon said:Parallels was kind enough to let us evaluate a build prior to the 3106 release that included the fix for MS Access.
I'm pleased to report that all of the problems we've seen with MS Access had been corrected in that build.
Great job and thank you for letting us work with you on this part of the release.
Go Parallels
I'm glad that this problem is fixed in beta 3, but the problem I have reported within thread http://forum.parallels.com/thread5898.html and twice from with in the program where in editable forms in FrontPage are not rendered as the should be, and are, on a "real" windows PC still exists in this beta.
Linux still seems to have display issues at least for me. 2.6.19.1 kernel, cli is fine on boot however once in to xorg and back out cli intermittently has display issues. (will post screeny next time I catch it). This happened on all of the 3xxx betas for me thus far. There is also some question as to why the native 1440x900 MacBook Pro res is still nonfunctional.
Performance seems to have downgraded from what I was getting in 1970 or at least seems to be more sluggish.
As for bootcamp with winXP pro, I have been unable to get any of the betas to even boot the partition, however upon entering native windowsXP, it tells me there are some tools installed that had problems, however there is no removal option. The partition is formatted FAT32 for file access purposes, AFAIK that was an allowable option.
I like where the project is going, all the new features, but for now back to 1970 for me as I prefer the performance in that version.
MBP 2.33 CoreDuo 2gig Ram 120g HD 10g BC Partition
(this MBP is less than a month old, might be related to newer hardware config or something)
Partition table.
/dev/disk0s2 on / (local, journaled)
devfs on /dev (local)
fdesc on /dev (union)
<volfs> on /.vol
automount -nsl [198] on /Network (automounted)
automount -fstab [203] on /automount/Servers (automounted)
automount -static [203] on /automount/static (automounted)
/dev/disk0s3 on /Volumes/WINDOWS HD (local)
Performance seems to have downgraded from what I was getting in 1970 or at least seems to be more sluggish.
As for bootcamp with winXP pro, I have been unable to get any of the betas to even boot the partition, however upon entering native windowsXP, it tells me there are some tools installed that had problems, however there is no removal option. The partition is formatted FAT32 for file access purposes, AFAIK that was an allowable option.
I like where the project is going, all the new features, but for now back to 1970 for me as I prefer the performance in that version.
MBP 2.33 CoreDuo 2gig Ram 120g HD 10g BC Partition
(this MBP is less than a month old, might be related to newer hardware config or something)
Partition table.
/dev/disk0s2 on / (local, journaled)
devfs on /dev (local)
fdesc on /dev (union)
<volfs> on /.vol
automount -nsl [198] on /Network (automounted)
automount -fstab [203] on /automount/Servers (automounted)
automount -static [203] on /automount/static (automounted)
/dev/disk0s3 on /Volumes/WINDOWS HD (local)
Second time Edgy is running at "normal" speed
Okay, after shutting down and starting it again it seems to be running as I would expect. I don't know what made it go so fast the first time?! Anyway this isn't a complaint at all. I haven't jumped into the deep end testing it but what I have tested works great. I am thinking I will remove VMWare at this rate.
ipstacks said:
Okay, after shutting down and starting it again it seems to be running as I would expect. I don't know what made it go so fast the first time?! Anyway this isn't a complaint at all. I haven't jumped into the deep end testing it but what I have tested works great. I am thinking I will remove VMWare at this rate.
Little Neddy
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More grief:networking, add/remove programmes
As well as not having coherence, I also cannot use any networking other than bridged networking and when I go to add/remove programmes 90% of the "programmes" I have are black vertical bars!! Curiouser and curiouser.....
As well as not having coherence, I also cannot use any networking other than bridged networking and when I go to add/remove programmes 90% of the "programmes" I have are black vertical bars!! Curiouser and curiouser.....
Why is my Windows XP window so small?
Just updated to the new Beta from 1970 and it seems to work well, except for one problem. The XP "desktop" now seems to be surrounded by about an inch wide black border. It's like watching a non HD program on an HD channel. It's annoying because I'm running this on a MacBook with a 13" screen already, so I don't need the window to be even smaller.
I'm sure it's an easy fix, but I tried making various changes and couldn't fix it.
I love this product, by the way. It's let me return to the Mac - my first (computer) love.
Thanks in advance, and happy New Year!
Patrick
P.S. I've attached a screen shot of what it looks like.
Just updated to the new Beta from 1970 and it seems to work well, except for one problem. The XP "desktop" now seems to be surrounded by about an inch wide black border. It's like watching a non HD program on an HD channel. It's annoying because I'm running this on a MacBook with a 13" screen already, so I don't need the window to be even smaller.
I'm sure it's an easy fix, but I tried making various changes and couldn't fix it.
I love this product, by the way. It's let me return to the Mac - my first (computer) love.
Thanks in advance, and happy New Year!
Patrick
P.S. I've attached a screen shot of what it looks like.
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Little Neddy
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Extra volumes
Others may have worked this out already, but if you put as one of your shared folders
/volumes
all mounted volumes on your computer can be read! Awsome!
Others may have worked this out already, but if you put as one of your shared folders
/volumes
all mounted volumes on your computer can be read! Awsome!
Ok
I under that this is what it is doing I guess I did not give enough info:
All I am doing is lunching windows xp VM and then quiting( Apple-Q). I don't open anything. Do it again, and again, a few times then all of sudden it takes a long time to quit. I would understand this if I had more thing open that it was saving (suspending the state) but I don't.
josiah said:
I under that this is what it is doing I guess I did not give enough info:
All I am doing is lunching windows xp VM and then quiting( Apple-Q). I don't open anything. Do it again, and again, a few times then all of sudden it takes a long time to quit. I would understand this if I had more thing open that it was saving (suspending the state) but I don't.
Windows XP using Bootcamp Partition
I created the virtual machine through the wizard, to use the bootcamp partition (Windows XP). But when I try to boot it, I get an error message:
Parallels Desktop cannot find necessary drivers to configure your Boot Camp partition. Please refer to Help> Parallels Desktop Help> Using Boot Camp Windows XP Installation for troubleshooting.
How do I fix this? I didn't have any prior versions of Parallels installed.
I created the virtual machine through the wizard, to use the bootcamp partition (Windows XP). But when I try to boot it, I get an error message:
Parallels Desktop cannot find necessary drivers to configure your Boot Camp partition. Please refer to Help> Parallels Desktop Help> Using Boot Camp Windows XP Installation for troubleshooting.
How do I fix this? I didn't have any prior versions of Parallels installed.
So here we are with a whole new beta version and still no ability to manually select a hard disk or volume to work around the Boot Camp greyed out problem. And not even an answer from the devs on why this can't be made an option? Since the problem seems to be with Parallels detecting the right volume's existence when non-standard partitions or physical configurations are used, why not just let us choose one? If we choose wrong and it crashes on boot, then that's a separate problem!
Hello, devs? Please just answer this question, I beg of you!
Hello, devs? Please just answer this question, I beg of you!
.mem file???
Is this new in Beta3? I'm using a bootcamp install (migrated my vm to bootcamp after beta2), and beta3 trashed my installed windows because it ran out of disk space on my (Mac) boot drive. I couldn't figure out why this could be, but after digging I see that a 1.46GB file is being created where my .pvs file is with an extension of .mem.
What is the file, why is it needed, and how can I prevent it? I don't want to take up ANOTHER 1.5 GB of disk space just to run the boot camp installed Windows.
BTW: How ungraceful, when it filled up my drive trying to create this file it forced my parallels session to quit, and damaged the windows licensing system (at least that is what the event logger in Windows said, it couldn't determine if windows was genuine or not). I was able to boot into BootCamp natively, then create a new parallels session which seems to have basically gotten me back up and running.
Is this new in Beta3? I'm using a bootcamp install (migrated my vm to bootcamp after beta2), and beta3 trashed my installed windows because it ran out of disk space on my (Mac) boot drive. I couldn't figure out why this could be, but after digging I see that a 1.46GB file is being created where my .pvs file is with an extension of .mem.
What is the file, why is it needed, and how can I prevent it? I don't want to take up ANOTHER 1.5 GB of disk space just to run the boot camp installed Windows.
BTW: How ungraceful, when it filled up my drive trying to create this file it forced my parallels session to quit, and damaged the windows licensing system (at least that is what the event logger in Windows said, it couldn't determine if windows was genuine or not). I was able to boot into BootCamp natively, then create a new parallels session which seems to have basically gotten me back up and running.
"Parallels Shared Files" on XP desktop?
I have an icon on my XP desktop called "Parallels Shared Files" that is a shortcut to "\\.psf". I open it and nothing's there. Is this a place to put stuff I want to share between OS's? Or is it an artifact from an earlier build of PDM? I started with 1970, then went to #2 and now am on build #3.
Thx,
Allan
I have an icon on my XP desktop called "Parallels Shared Files" that is a shortcut to "\\.psf". I open it and nothing's there. Is this a place to put stuff I want to share between OS's? Or is it an artifact from an earlier build of PDM? I started with 1970, then went to #2 and now am on build #3.
Thx,
Allan
Viewing desktop items in Coherence mode
Would it be desirable to be able to see XP desktop items when in Coherence mode? I only see the Mac desktop items and presume it might be messy to try and overlay the XP items since they may be right on top of Mac items. But if one was careful and used different sides of the screen for items from the different OS's, would it be possible to show both when using Coherence?
Allan
Would it be desirable to be able to see XP desktop items when in Coherence mode? I only see the Mac desktop items and presume it might be messy to try and overlay the XP items since they may be right on top of Mac items. But if one was careful and used different sides of the screen for items from the different OS's, would it be possible to show both when using Coherence?
Allan
Little Neddy
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re:Viewing desktop items in Coherence mode
Click the desktop icon (assuming quicklaunch is enabled) to toggle between mac/xp desktops.
Click the desktop icon (assuming quicklaunch is enabled) to toggle between mac/xp desktops.
Problem using VPN from XP in Parallels
Sorry to have so many questions tonight! Just playing around with the new build, and there's something I really need to do but can't. And it may have nothing to do with Parallels, but if it does, thought I'd ask.
I really need to be able to establish a VPN connection to my work network. Colleagues tell me they can do it from their XP machines at home, and I've duplicated their settings in the Windows VPN connection item. But Windows won't let me do it. Is there a reason this might not be working due to me using Parallels?
I'm on a DSL connection going through a wireless router/modem and have suspected the problem might lie there. But I've spent hours on the phone with my ISP and they've reset the modem to its factory state, as well as forced a static IP address on my machine (in ipconfig). Perhaps this is a result of using Airport to get to that modem though?
If anyone has any guesses what might be wrong, please let me know -- or point me to the proper place to post this if it doesn't have anything to do with Parallels.
Thanks!
Allan
(That's it for me today in this forum. )
Sorry to have so many questions tonight! Just playing around with the new build, and there's something I really need to do but can't. And it may have nothing to do with Parallels, but if it does, thought I'd ask.
I really need to be able to establish a VPN connection to my work network. Colleagues tell me they can do it from their XP machines at home, and I've duplicated their settings in the Windows VPN connection item. But Windows won't let me do it. Is there a reason this might not be working due to me using Parallels?
I'm on a DSL connection going through a wireless router/modem and have suspected the problem might lie there. But I've spent hours on the phone with my ISP and they've reset the modem to its factory state, as well as forced a static IP address on my machine (in ipconfig). Perhaps this is a result of using Airport to get to that modem though?
If anyone has any guesses what might be wrong, please let me know -- or point me to the proper place to post this if it doesn't have anything to do with Parallels.
Thanks!
Allan
(That's it for me today in this forum.
)Stevamundo
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b3 3106 is not working for me
Version b3 3106 is not working for me. It does go further than the previous builds.
The app starts fine, then I get the installing tools message (ScreenSnapz1.jpg). After a while, I see a boot failure (ScreenSnapz2.jpg). When attempting to reboot, I see a fairly normal boot sequence (ScreenSnapz3.jpg), which again ends in the boot failure (ScreenSnapz4.jpg).
See attached screenshots. Here is my system config:
How much HDDs does your Mac have?
MBP Core Duo with 1 100GB HDD, 2 partitions with 10GB for Bootcamp
Where is your Boot Camp partition located?
2nd partition on the MacBook Pro drive (basic deployment option for Bootcamp).
What is the OS installed on Boot Camp exact name and version? Is it 64-bit one or 32-bit one?
32-bit WinXP SP2
Open Terminal, issue the "mount" command and post its output here please
/dev/disk0s2 on / (local, journaled)
devfs on /dev (local)
fdesc on /dev (union)
<volfs> on /.vol
automount -nsl [304] on /Network (automounted)
automount -fstab [308] on /automount/Servers (automounted)
automount -static [308] on /automount/static (automounted)
/dev/disk2s2 on /Volumes/iDisk (local, nodev, nosuid, journaled, mounted by dfbills)
/dev/disk0s3 on /Volumes/WINDOWS HD (local)
http://idisk.mac.com/dfbills/ on /Volumes/dfbills (nodev, noexec, nosuid, mounted by dfbills)
Version b3 3106 is not working for me. It does go further than the previous builds.
The app starts fine, then I get the installing tools message (ScreenSnapz1.jpg). After a while, I see a boot failure (ScreenSnapz2.jpg). When attempting to reboot, I see a fairly normal boot sequence (ScreenSnapz3.jpg), which again ends in the boot failure (ScreenSnapz4.jpg).
See attached screenshots. Here is my system config:
How much HDDs does your Mac have?
MBP Core Duo with 1 100GB HDD, 2 partitions with 10GB for Bootcamp
Where is your Boot Camp partition located?
2nd partition on the MacBook Pro drive (basic deployment option for Bootcamp).
What is the OS installed on Boot Camp exact name and version? Is it 64-bit one or 32-bit one?
32-bit WinXP SP2
Open Terminal, issue the "mount" command and post its output here please
/dev/disk0s2 on / (local, journaled)
devfs on /dev (local)
fdesc on /dev (union)
<volfs> on /.vol
automount -nsl [304] on /Network (automounted)
automount -fstab [308] on /automount/Servers (automounted)
automount -static [308] on /automount/static (automounted)
/dev/disk2s2 on /Volumes/iDisk (local, nodev, nosuid, journaled, mounted by dfbills)
/dev/disk0s3 on /Volumes/WINDOWS HD (local)
http://idisk.mac.com/dfbills/ on /Volumes/dfbills (nodev, noexec, nosuid, mounted by dfbills)
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