Parallels Workstation 2.1 beta2 known issues
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Apr 9, 2006, 05:02 AM
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 STim Parallels Team Join: Mar 2006 Posts: 831 |
Parallels Workstation 2.1 beta2 known issues Below is the list of most annoying known issues. * Mac OS X restarts when Parallels Workstation is left running and host revokes from “Sleep” mode. This is going to be fixed. To workaround the problem, just suspend or power off the VM before giving “Sleep” command the Mac OS X. * Parallels can’t read DVDs. * In beta2, it takes longer to boot guest. Will be fixed. * Guest tools installation process is not robust. Ideally, installation should start as soon as you press “VM->Install Parallels Tools…”. If it doesn’t happen – you should manually browse to My Computer, open the CD device and click the “PrlTools.exe” file. * CPU usage is rather high when VM is in idle/paused state. Definitely, it should be close to zero in this case. We’ll fix this problem. * Still there are kernel panics possible when using PW. We apologize to everyone experiencing this nasty behavior. Please, if come across any grey screens, send us the panic.log as well as some additional info as described at http://forum.parallels.com/thread294.html * Guest mouse responciveness may be far from ideal. Artefacts are possible on the screen when dragging windows/browsing menus. Being fixed now. The workaround found by the community is: - While in guest, enter the Display properties, find Settings tab. - Click Advanced button. - In the window opened, browse to "Troubleshoot" tab and move the slider one notch left. * Keyboard input problems: - "F8" button doesn't work. Use Fn+F8 combination instead. - "|" button doesn't work. And no workaround for now I’ll keep updating the list. Networking issues are not covered yet as well. |
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Apr 9, 2006, 07:07 AM
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eduo Junior Member Join: Apr 2006 Posts: 4 |
PW opens new safari instances. Can cause problems There is a nasty problem with uising the help in Parallels Workstation. For some reason the application, instead of either using the "open" routines for HTML files fires up a new Safari application instance. This is annoying in most cases but when using third-party Safari plug-ins it can lead to very NASTY consequences. In my case I have quite a few plug-ins and I'm trying to isolate the actual combination but I suspect Saft. What happened is that when I opened the help page through the PW menu item a new Safar instance and Saft told me it thought Safari had crashed, but in reality was running already. I copied the URL and closed that safari instance to go to the one I had already opened. Later yesterday I closed Safari and when I tried to open it again it wouldn't open. After some basic investigation I noticed Safari was an empty .app folder. No contents in the application at all. I had to recover from a backup to have a functional Safari going again, as it can't be easily downloaded or re-updated. Parallels should either have a webkit minibrowser in PW or use the normal "open URL" function of MacOSX to use the default browser (the same that the "open" command in the terminal does). Cross-posted at http://forum.parallels.com/showthrea...=1235#post1235 |
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Apr 9, 2006, 10:21 AM
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jasonbuzz Junior Member Join: Apr 2006 Posts: 6 |
Keyboard and mouse issues running WinXP I noticed that the decimal key doesn't respond and also when holding down any key to repeat a character or space there is no response. As for the mouse, it seems jittery with a slow response time. |
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Apr 9, 2006, 01:58 PM
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Lee Junior Member Join: Apr 2006 Posts: 1 |
Decrease HW acceleration for more speed! Quote:
In XP, go to Display Properties, Settings, Advanced, Troubleshoot, and slide the slider down one notch, things speed up considerably, particularly mouse tracking and menu hiliting. |
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Apr 10, 2006, 04:19 AM
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snit Member Join: Apr 2006 Posts: 32 |
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Apr 10, 2006, 08:36 PM
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dkwong Junior Member Join: Apr 2006 Posts: 10 |
How about allowing the host and guest OS to share the same network interface and still be able to talk to each other? Right now, I have to use en0 for the host and en1 for the guest. Otherwise, the two can't see each other so I can't share files back and forth. |
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Apr 9, 2006, 09:15 PM
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roscoe13 Junior Member Join: Apr 2006 Posts: 9 |
Any progress for those of us who are unable to boot off of any physical CDs or CD disk images? I can't get it to boot anything other than a floppy image or the hard drive. I know both Parallels & the guests can see the physical drive, if I tell it to boot the physical CD first, it gives a pop-up about there not being a disk in the drive, and if I boot a DOS floppy image with CDROM support I can read the CD. Trying to boot from a physical CD or CD image I always get the no boot device error. All 6 of the CDs I've tried boot just fine under Q... Peace |
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Apr 11, 2006, 01:56 PM
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spilker Junior Member Join: Apr 2006 Posts: 1 |
Well, i´m experiencing the same problem. The button to boot from a real cd/dvd is disabled and even to boot from the iso image i created from my suse linux dvd i can´t boot the guest os. As i´m new to Mac OSX, may i ask how you you create a working floppy disk image? |
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Apr 11, 2006, 03:50 AM
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OneSadCookie Junior Member Join: Apr 2006 Posts: 1 |
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