Internal build 1908 for Mac Pro and iMac Core 2 Duo - Mac RAM is unlimited
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Sep 21, 2006, 02:20 PM
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 STim Parallels Team Join: Mar 2006 Posts: 831 |
Internal build 1908 for Mac Pro and iMac Core 2 Duo - Mac RAM is unlimited Hello guys, We are on the way to deliver a Parallels Desktop for Mac version that supports Mac Pro and iMac Core 2 Duo without RAM limitation. There's an internal build that is available for early testing which can be downloaded from here. Please don't forget to backup any sensitive data on your Mac before proceeding to evaluation. This version does not limit Mac Pro and iMac Core 2 Duo RAM amount and removes the limitation set by previous update. Please don't forget to restart your Mac after installing this update and ensure that RAM reverts to its original amount. As usual, we're extremely interested in your feedback about this build and any issues you might face. Best regards, Tim |
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Sep 21, 2006, 03:51 PM
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dnanian Member Join: Sep 2006 Posts: 42 |
As a quick note, before I actually start (I've installed), my first boot after install hung during the kext load part (pre-loginwindow). As you can see here (from my system.log), the last loaded item was Parallels: Code:
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Sep 21, 2006, 04:28 PM
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Andrew @ Parallels Parallels Team Join: Apr 2006 Posts: 1,557 |
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Sep 21, 2006, 04:47 PM
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NutKracker Junior Member Join: Aug 2006 Posts: 17 |
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Hi, I'm having similar crashes on starting of VM - was fine the very first time I tried after upgrading. I've just rebooted MacPro and VM started up fine.... |
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Sep 22, 2006, 01:46 AM
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tacit_one Parallels Team Join: Mar 2006 Posts: 435 |
Thanks dnanian, Unfortunately there is no our internal logging in that part of boot-up script. That is why it is hard to understand what caused that problem. We will add logging for future use and will try to reproduce this problem in our labs. Regards, Max |
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Sep 22, 2006, 09:25 AM
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dnanian Member Join: Sep 2006 Posts: 42 |
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The second issue -- now the dominant one -- is that I can't get any VM to start, regardless of VT-x setting, memory limit, or anything else, without causing my cursor to stop moving and requiring a hard power off shutdown. |
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Sep 22, 2006, 09:41 AM
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tacit_one Parallels Team Join: Mar 2006 Posts: 435 |
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Yes, I understand that. First issue is known and a fix is already awailable internally. But we're really interested in understanding of the second problem (Hang on startup - our testing labs do not reproduce this one). What are your memory settings (VM mem - Overall mem - Host mem) ? Maybe it just goes to "hard swap" as the result of too large memory allocation ? [edit] I will follow up you with your BugID - no need to trash this post Regards, Max. |
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Sep 22, 2006, 10:09 AM
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dnanian Member Join: Sep 2006 Posts: 42 |
OK, Max -- to answer: I have 4GB of memory, originally didn't limit the Parallels memory at all, and allocated 512MB to the host (though I tried many different values, since another user indicated other settings worked for him). I'm certain it's not hard swapping, because I can see there's no significant disk access. |
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Sep 21, 2006, 03:59 PM
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dnanian Member Join: Sep 2006 Posts: 42 |
And, first startup of a brand new Vista VM (RC1 attempted install from an ISO), no system hang, but a crash. The problem report text: Code:
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Sep 21, 2006, 04:09 PM
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dnanian Member Join: Sep 2006 Posts: 42 |
OK -- just tried my "last" test. I launched a (clone of) an existing XP VM. And, the same crash, basically, looks like when it switches from text to graphics mode or something. I know you guys must have tested this a little, but it really seems pretty broken. Here's the crash log: Code:
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Sep 22, 2006, 04:18 AM
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tacit_one Parallels Team Join: Mar 2006 Posts: 435 |
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could you please file a bug with your issue in our BugTracker system and post your BugNumber in this thread or privately by message to me - so I could personally follow up your bug issue. We're extremely interested in resolving your problem. Thanks, Regards, Max |
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Sep 22, 2006, 09:37 AM
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dnanian Member Join: Sep 2006 Posts: 42 |
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Sep 21, 2006, 07:05 PM
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JDLandry@cox.net Junior Member Join: Sep 2006 Posts: 12 |
Build 1908 hangs on Mac Pro 3Ghz-4Gig RAM. I just installed build 1908. Installed without any errors (and it reset RAM to 4-Gig correctly), but when I tried to run the VM with Windows XP, system hangs. Have to hard re-boot each time. Tried a second time, putting the system to sleep before running VM, and still go the same problem. It appears as if it is trying to load windows when it just locks up the entire system. |
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Sep 21, 2006, 07:17 PM
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dnanian Member Join: Sep 2006 Posts: 42 |
I really don't understand what's changed between the "was failing with a Parallels crash log" runs and the "locks up the whole system" situation I'm back in now. The only real difference was a restart or two (when I tried to limit the memory to see if that helped). Other than that, I'm in exactly the same configuration, same perhpherals, everything. Parallels people -- I'm more than willing to supply additional information should you need it. But at this point I'm dead in the water. |
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Sep 21, 2006, 08:10 PM
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dnanian Member Join: Sep 2006 Posts: 42 |
One more little bit of info. I tried what another user thought -- limiting application memory, turning VT-x off, disk caching policy to OSX, acceleration to "Normal". No go. Still hangs nearly immediately when I click "Start" on the VM, mouse "stutter-moves" (barely), no disk access... dead, requiring power off reboot. Whee! :) |
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Sep 22, 2006, 12:28 AM
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NutKracker Junior Member Join: Aug 2006 Posts: 17 |
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dnanian, as I mentioned earlier - I'm having similar problems - however, I've just noticed that I didn't update the Parallel Tools. I've just done that, and I appear to be able to start up, pause, restart, reset, reboot the VM (WinXP SP2) and it appears to be behaving itself....??? |
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Sep 22, 2006, 12:51 AM
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Pleiades Member Join: May 2006 Posts: 80 |
My 3GB 2.66GHz Mac Pro is happy. 1908 works just fine with the ability to access all the memory. I didn't check whether the VT-X issue is fixed. I assume not, but I went ahead and slept the computer before running Parallels. The only issue I had was a failure trying to run a second VM at the same time which never happened before. I'm not quite sure what was different. This time it complained about not being able to open the CD/DVD drive followed by a crash of the VM. Normally I'd expect a conflict with the CD/DVD drive since two computers are trying to get at it at the same time, but it never complained about that before and I hadn't changed any configurations except bumping Vista up to 1GB. Vista now starts up in 37 seconds. Not bad. |
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