Parallels Desktop for Mac build 3120 RC1 is available for download.

dkp · Jan 11, 2007

Narin said:
Is it just me, or hasn't it always been this way? The "\\.psf" share has been around for ages, it's just with this new build that drag+drop has really pointed it out. You've always been able to disable it if it bothers you.

Now, if we could only get seamless drag+drop working in the other direction (i.e. auto-share the XP drive) then I wouln't have to reconnect to my XP network drive every day!

On earlier installations the .psf folder contains only what I've specified - a subdirectory in a specific user's account. The .mac folder opened to the root of the Mac boot disk. That's far more exposure than I'm willing to accept.

ajcooper · Jan 11, 2007

Tim,

As far as I know, Fusion needs 10.4 or 10.5 to function. The only other version I have is 8.xx which the camera won't install. Trying to download 9.5 to see if that will work.

Million dollar question - when can we expect support for the 10.5 drivers?

Aidan

unused_user_name · Jan 11, 2007

Originally Posted by dkp
If this is true then it is an incredibly evil feature. I haven't checked yet to verify but it would be the very first thing to disable if it's a default.

I agree with dkp.

There are known viruses out there that infect files over SMB shares. If there is a global "Share the Mac Hard Drive" share with read access then any (all) word docs (or any other data file) on the Mac could potentially be infected. While it would not hurt the Mac, it would be really bad for anyone else I could send files to...

One of the things I do with Parallels is intentionally infect windows installations to see what they do. This would be a *really bad thing* to let things go from Windows to Mac without me _explicitly_ telling it that it can.

I would much rather have the file copying take place on the OSX side of things.... How about a virtual SMB share on the mac side that contains the hard drive image of the guest OS? You could use a script on the OSX side to do the copying. Then it would (1) not let Windows viruses run amok on your OSX, (2) possibly work with other OSs if they name their SMB share the same as the default that Parallels Tool's names it, (3) It would continue working longer with Windows upgrades, as a unix-based script on Mac is unlikely to have the API changed....

Delphyne · Jan 11, 2007

[email protected] said:
I don't know if anyone else is experiancing thus issue or not, but Coherence is a selectable option in the view menu, but when I select it the Parallels window disapears and the desktop is blank. None of the applications that were on my windows desktop are visable. It as if Parallels in completely hidden. Anyone else having this problem?
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William

PS Yes I installed the new version of Parallels Tolls in Windows

I had to completley uninstall parallels tools and reinstall them for coherence to work with this upgrade

blackmac · Jan 11, 2007

Tim Surgent said:
Web cameras should be working since this build. A number of other devices reported non-working by beta-testers in previous builds should work now as well.

I am still desperately missing supoort for the built-in camera of my MacBook. Isn't this going to come in the next release?

Rumours are, a competitor has implemented this feature already?!

dailo · Jan 11, 2007

A lot of bugs seemed to be have fixed at least for me they have been. Parallels doesn't close when I try to run Remote Desktop anymore. However the memory leak is still there =/.

STim · Jan 11, 2007

ajcooper said:
Tim,

As far as I know, Fusion needs 10.4 or 10.5 to function. The only other version I have is 8.xx which the camera won't install. Trying to download 9.5 to see if that will work.

Million dollar question - when can we expect support for the 10.5 drivers?

Aidan

Our Fusion came with 10.0 drivers on the CD and works flawlessly with them. We were testing with both 10.4 and 10.5 as well - they BSOD like for you. We're working hard on the fix...

blackmac said:
I am still desperately missing supoort for the built-in camera of my MacBook. Isn't this going to come in the next release?

Rumours are, a competitor has implemented this feature already?!

Yeah I saw these rumors in action - great job for competition

iSight support is being worked on as well, just wait a bit...

Best regards,
Tim

bhorta1 · Jan 11, 2007

Wow big difference. The first beta was totally buggy and unusable so I went back to 1970. Tried 3120 RC1 and night and day difference. and now I can import CDs into itunes!

Whenever my wife wants to use the Mac I put it in fullscreen windows XP and she is happy itunes now imports. Old habits die hard

but I use OS X

Cyrealm · Jan 11, 2007

My Logitech Quickcam Communicate STX now works. Thanks Parallels Team!

aokie · Jan 11, 2007

I got a VM crash while running Microsoft Update under Windows 2000 SP4 Japanese.
The crash is totally reproducable.

#I cannot send email to [email protected]. I got unknown user error messages.

Hugh Watkins · Jan 11, 2007

I was really nervous about this upgrade

But in a moment of inspiration I uninstalled Parallels tools from my working VM and then from its clone

Then I upgraded to 3120

I opened the clone first and installed the tools and then it worked perfectly after a reboot

Closed that and open my main VM and started to install the tools

I had to accept that the mouse no longer worked and made the install using Apple usb full keyboard with my MacBook Pro

I saw the win XP cursor slowly sliding down a digaonal to the bottom right corner of the OS Window
in fact the right mouse button still worked at that location

max X 0 Y

when it was time to reboot after the Parallels tools insatller got to the last pane "Reboot Now . . Later?

I battled to get it to read the return key

I could use the Start menu and open th atsk manager from the ctrl alt delete

but the tools installer would not let go
even when I used the arrow keys to call the blue shut down or reboot dialog with green or red button

so I had to use the Parallels menu >> actions > stop
to get out of it

when I restarted the second VM it worked perfectly

The shared folders worked again at last
(see my other cries for help)

thanks guys

Hugh W

BlueTrance · Jan 11, 2007

Definitively, you just need to open Parallels to see it's real RAM allocated size growing slowly but forever.
You don't need to have a Windows instance running (I have noticed with all of my VMs). And you don't even needt to start the VM to check it.

I wish this could help yo find the bug.

And thank you for fixing the unexpected quit issue!!

STim · Jan 11, 2007

BlueTrance said:
Definitively, you just need to open Parallels to see it's real RAM allocated size growing slowly but forever.
You don't need to have a Windows instance running (I have noticed with all of my VMs). And you don't even needt to start the VM to check it.

I wish this could help yo find the bug.

And thank you for fixing the unexpected quit issue!!

More information is really needed. What is your MacOS X version? Are all latest updates installed? What's your Mac name? How much RAM does it have? And finally, what is the devices set your VM is configured with?

Best regards,
Tim

dworkman · Jan 11, 2007

Boo Hoo

MysticalOS said:
I feel like i wasted my time reporting all the bugs i found in beta 3 to forums and email, got no replies in either or and they weren't fixed in this build. :\

Did you ever think perhaps the Parallels guys are just plain busy? This isn't a social networking group.

Hugh Watkins · Jan 11, 2007

dworkman said:
Did you ever think perhaps the Parallels guys are just plain busy? This isn't a social networking group.

they clearly fix the bugs reported by several users

My own heavy cpu usage is a win XP issue depending on what you install and run on the guest OS

Hugh W

blb@msn.com · Jan 11, 2007

i can't view your jpeg, but i also see an artifact in Coherence mode.

Ainvar · Jan 11, 2007

chrisdressler said:
I just installed 3120 (RC1) over the last Beta 3 and I'm still getting blue screens as soon as I try to boot into my Boot Camp XP partition with Parallels. As soon as the Parallels overlay comes up and it gets past selecting the "Parallels configuration" profile, I get a blue screen. Windows reboots and the same thing happens over and over.

Any ideas?

DITTO for me, I email this to parallels also, maybe they will get it fixed.

methnen · Jan 11, 2007

Andrew @ Parallels said:
Thanks for report! We reproduced it and working on it already.

Ah good. I was just coming back to say its happening again. The memory leak appears to be a bit slower than before but difinately still there as I've had parrallels crash under the same conditions now 3 times since upgrading to the latest.

Glad you guys have a handle on it.

Jamie

mroedig · Jan 11, 2007

My Motorola Q works PERFECTLY "out of the box", so to speak, with Fusion. I love Parallels, but if they can't get the USB, right my choice is made.

triplex · Jan 11, 2007

I got blue screen with STOP: 0x0000007B (which means "INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE " as I know) when trying to run "bootcamp vm" with fresh installed 3120 RC1 parallels. Bootcamp windows is fresh installed too on fat32.

my boot.ini of bc win looks like:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect