Parallels Desktop for Mac build 3150 RC2 is available for download.

Downloaded File Corruption - Repeatable Problem

With Desktop version 3150 RC2 installed, any file downloaded while using the Ethernet port on a dual core 1.66 Ghz Mac Mini with 1 GB memory under OS X 10.4.8 with all the latest patches and the latest firmware release is corrupted. A .DMG file will refuse to mount with an error of "codec overrun". Un-installing the Desktop software resolves the problem until it is re-installed again. The same file downloaded again with Desktop removed from the system opens normally. I've tried several different DMG files of various sizes and the problem remains the same.

Files downloaded with Windows XP running under Desktop are fine. This is a repeatable problem and should surface when any DMG file is downloaded under OS X with the Desktop software installed. I'm not certain if the Airport connection is effected since I use only the standard Ethernet port for my network connection.

Is anyone else having this problem and is there a resolution? I've had this same problem since first official release of the Desktop software.

Bob Arnold
 
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Svirsky said:
I need help fast. I am using rc 3150 activation key expires today. System does not accept the actual key code from the Parallels version I paid for online from Parallels. So at the moment I am without Parallels please help fast,

reply to my email; [email protected]
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Are you in a country other than the U.S.? If so then the key you bought won't work with any beta version... you'll have to wait till the final version comes out. Or somehow get another trial key. You'll be able to use all the new features of the new version once it goes final.
 
brute said:
All;

I've been having the 'More than one partition' problem on boot with Parallels, and can verify a culprit (thanks to another member who posted earlier).

If you have an external hard drive on a USB2 port, (in my case, I'm attached to a usb hub with a drive attached to it) Parallels will religiously alert you to a 'More than one partition...' problem.

Once the drive was unplugged, I was able to boot into Parallels again, with no problems. I've replicated this several times, and can verify that this is problem and the solution works.

-David
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Thanks David - at least that solved my immediate problem after 'upgrading' to 3150. Unfortunately I still can't access my external drives at all, which was the original reason I abandoned Parallels in favour of Bootcamp. I have since found a work-around by setting the external drives to be "shared folders", but that is very sluggish, and really is a poor compromise.

And I do agree with Karan - 3150 seems much slower than 3130 (?) (This is on a new MacBookPro with 2GB ram, so I'm not too limited on clock cycles or active storage!)
 
phazer said:
When you load parallels it gives you a start menu. There is usually a sidebar on the right to start it... that is missing....

My problems seem to be occurring only away from work... my VM is on the domain... so I wonder if it is not a parallels issue... but I didn't used to have problems like this.

What it is, is it can't start in Coherence... it does but it's terribly buggy. I can't click on anything or do anything. I have to switch to OS window mode then back to coherence... but only when I'm not on the network with my windows domain...it gets stuck at synchronizing offline files.

Again, this didn't used to be an issue for me before the 3150 RC2 update
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Thanks, no one, for caring about this.
 
boot.ini?

It's cosmetic now, but since I have used these betas since the first one, I think the installation of the parallels tools in each version -- and my misapplication of the second beta, not uninstalling the first version of paralllels tools -- has left me now with multiple "parallels" profiles on bootup in either Boot Camp or virtualization. When I'm using Boot Camp, the Windows XP profile on top and selected. When I boot in Parallels, the proper Parallels profile is selected, and on top.

But beneath these profiles, there are two additional "Parallels" profiles, I suppose left over from my earlier installations (I lost one, because of my goof in installing Beta 2 without removing the Parallels Tools first.)

I've opened up boot.ini in TextEdit -- didn't change anything, it's too scary -- but there are plainly two extra profiles. I'm not sure which, and I'm quite nervous about editing it in a Mac editor and making the thing into a brick.

Is there some way I can edit this?
 
bdipert said:
I had the same sequence of problems that you had after upgrading to 3150 (RC2). Are you sure that your Windows partition is aok? The list of file fragments, etc that came up during Scandisk was pretty ugly. Is there anything that needs to be cleaned up post-Scandisk (bogus files created out of the fragments, etc)? Thanks in advance for any assistance you can provide
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I believe that the disk was originally fine...it had been formatted not long before I did this. I did not clean anything after ScanDisk ran...and I have had no issues since.

Hopefully this is working for you...
 
Getting error while trying this...

Tim Surgent said:
The easiest way to get iSight drivers is:
1. Download and install latest Apple Boot Camp from http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/
2. Browse to Macintosh HD->Applications->Utilities
3. Right-click the "Boot Camp Assistant" and select "Show Package Contents".
4. Go to Contents->Resources and click the DiskImage.dmg to mount it.
5. Find the "Install Macintosh Drivers for Windows XP.exe" and copy inside your VM.
6. Run the file. In a short while, all necessary drivers will be installed. Reboot and enjoy iSight

Best regards,
Tim

PS: We can't redistribute Apple software, that is why you don't have iSight drivers by default.
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I did all this, after I start to install this file, it starts copying files and then within a minute, it gives errors message that it cannot find the file in C: documents and settings\applicationdata\local\is_52 and everytime it is changing temp location. So I don't know what to do. I even tried to burn a macintosh drivers cd and then it is doing the same thing.

Hope I don't need to have boot camp installed to try this? I am not running Boot camp, just parallels.
 
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