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

Jan 10, 2007, 07:03 PM #1
STim Parallels Team Join: Mar 2006 Posts: 831	Parallels Desktop for Mac build 3120 RC1 is available for download. Hello everyone! Parallels Desktop for Mac build 3120 is now available for download. Additional details and download information is available on this page: http://www.parallels.com/products/desktop/beta_testing/ PLEASE REMEMBER: this is a Release Candidate software. While this build gives you the rough understanding of the final set of features to be available in Final Release later on, it is still a “Candidate” and thus is still not recommended for production use. Do backup your virtual machines before trying them with this build. This build introduces a new feature and provides several very important fixes to the problems found in previous Betas: * The widest list of fixes is USB ones! 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. The known issues list is below: * iSight doesn’t work yet. You will notice it sending data, but no picture available * Several other web cameras won’t work with similar symptoms; * Logitech web cameras are reported not to work with drivers pack versions 10.4 and 10.5; * Connecting USB 1.1 and USB 2.0 devices to VM simultaneously will most probably lead to both of them not working; * Some Palm devices will still not to work. * True “Drag and Drop” functionality - a long awaited feature that lets you seamlessly drag and drop files and folders from Windows to Mac OS X and vice versa. Parallels Desktop now shares the entire Mac file structure between OS X and Windows - no more worrying about which copy of the file is the most recently updated! * If, for some reason, you need to return to previous “Drag and Drop” implementation, just enter VM Configuration Editor, select Shared Folders and uncheck the “Enable Global Sharing for drag-and-drop” option. * Stability fixes – lots of segmentation fault (Parallels Desktop window closes unexpectedly) conditions are now fixed - thanks to everyone for reporting those! * The nasty bug with Suspend/Resume and invalid windows areas handling while in Coherence is now gone. * And many other less evident fixes… Once again I would like to encourage you to send your bug reports to beta@parallels.com mailbox. Be it non-working USB device, a description of your Boot Camp installation that fails to boot inside Parallels Desktop box or the specific application that is not handled correctly by Coherence – we are interested in any feedback that lets us improve Parallels Desktop and deliver the best product to you! Best regards, Tim and the Parallels Team

Jan 10, 2007, 07:03 PM

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

Hello everyone!

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

Additional details and download information is available on this page: http://www.parallels.com/products/desktop/beta_testing/

PLEASE REMEMBER: this is a Release Candidate software. While this build gives you the rough understanding of the final set of features to be available in Final Release later on, it is still a “Candidate” and thus is still not recommended for production use. Do backup your virtual machines before trying them with this build.

This build introduces a new feature and provides several very important fixes to the problems found in previous Betas:

* The widest list of fixes is USB ones! 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. The known issues list is below:

* iSight doesn’t work yet. You will notice it sending data, but no picture available
* Several other web cameras won’t work with similar symptoms;
* Logitech web cameras are reported not to work with drivers pack versions 10.4 and 10.5;
* Connecting USB 1.1 and USB 2.0 devices to VM simultaneously will most probably lead to both of them not working;
* Some Palm devices will still not to work.

* True “Drag and Drop” functionality - a long awaited feature that lets you seamlessly drag and drop files and folders from Windows to Mac OS X and vice versa. Parallels Desktop now shares the entire Mac file structure between OS X and Windows - no more worrying about which copy of the file is the most recently updated!

* If, for some reason, you need to return to previous “Drag and Drop” implementation, just enter VM Configuration Editor, select Shared Folders and uncheck the “Enable Global Sharing for drag-and-drop” option.

* Stability fixes – lots of segmentation fault (Parallels Desktop window closes unexpectedly) conditions are now fixed - thanks to everyone for reporting those!

* The nasty bug with Suspend/Resume and invalid windows areas handling while in Coherence is now gone.

* And many other less evident fixes…

Once again I would like to encourage you to send your bug reports to beta@parallels.com mailbox. Be it non-working USB device, a description of your Boot Camp installation that fails to boot inside Parallels Desktop box or the specific application that is not handled correctly by Coherence – we are interested in any feedback that lets us improve Parallels Desktop and deliver the best product to you!

Best regards,
Tim and the Parallels Team

Jan 10, 2007, 07:40 PM #2
dfredder Junior Member Join: Dec 2006 Posts: 2	Any chance we can get the 20-30% CPU usage with idle guest XP "feature" fixed any time soon? The battery in my macbook pro will thank you!

Jan 12, 2007, 02:55 PM

rjgebis
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Quote:

Originally Posted by dfredder

Any chance we can get the 20-30% CPU usage with idle guest XP "feature" fixed any time soon? The battery in my macbook pro will thank you!

I could not agree with you more.!!!!!!!!!!

Jan 12, 2007, 03:04 PM

rhind
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Quote:

Originally Posted by dfredder

Any chance we can get the 20-30% CPU usage with idle guest XP "feature" fixed any time soon? The battery in my macbook pro will thank you!

I completely agree on this too. 20% on a C2D MBP 2.33GHz seems excessive for an idle WinXP system.

I currently shut my virtual machine down whenever I'm not using it because of this. (It would be nice to leave it running).

Cheers

Russell

Jan 12, 2007, 04:06 PM #5
dylanharris Junior Member Join: Dec 2006 Posts: 27	IcyBox USB drive now unrecognised I've got an laptop hard-disk in an external IcyBox USB case. I've not had a problem with connecting it to Windows under the previous betas of Mac parallels. However, under RC1, Windows recognises the device is plugged in, but no drive letter appears, and disk administrator doesn't realise it's a disk. I can no longer access the drive. This is a problem in both Windows 2000 and XP. These are existing virtual machines. The Mac sees it fine, but that doesn't do me much good because the drive is formatted using NTFS.

Jan 12, 2007, 04:06 PM

dylanharris
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IcyBox USB drive now unrecognised

I've got an laptop hard-disk in an external IcyBox USB case. I've not had a problem with connecting it to Windows under the previous betas of Mac parallels.

However, under RC1, Windows recognises the device is plugged in, but no drive letter appears, and disk administrator doesn't realise it's a disk. I can no longer access the drive.

This is a problem in both Windows 2000 and XP. These are existing virtual machines.

The Mac sees it fine, but that doesn't do me much good because the drive is formatted using NTFS.

Jan 13, 2007, 09:26 AM #6
HWgeek Junior Member Join: Jun 2006 Posts: 17	Processor Usage comparison 1896.2 and 3120.0 I was curious to see what was going on with people saying high processor usage. Since my needs were mainly met with 1896.2 I hadn't upgraded for quite a while. Setup is WinXP with SP2 (768MB / 1536MB initial/max paging file) VM 764MB memory, 15GB "hard drive" So took down the following numbers from Activity Monitor: 1896.2 20% CPU usage active / .9% paused 37.37MB Real / 424.06MB Virtual memory 3120.0 12-17% Active / 3-4% paused 264MB Real / 2.28GB Virtual memory I was surprised on how much more Virtual memory the new version is allocating. I am not seeing the high CPU usage other are, is it possible folks have something running in VM in the back ground? (AntiSpyWare, Antivirus, small apps???) thats increasing the usage?

Jan 13, 2007, 09:26 AM

HWgeek
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Processor Usage comparison 1896.2 and 3120.0

I was curious to see what was going on with people saying high processor usage.
Since my needs were mainly met with 1896.2 I hadn't upgraded for quite a while.

Setup is WinXP with SP2 (768MB / 1536MB initial/max paging file)
VM 764MB memory, 15GB "hard drive"
So took down the following numbers from Activity Monitor:

1896.2
20% CPU usage active / .9% paused
37.37MB Real / 424.06MB Virtual memory

3120.0
12-17% Active / 3-4% paused
264MB Real / 2.28GB Virtual memory

I was surprised on how much more Virtual memory the new version is allocating.

I am not seeing the high CPU usage other are, is it possible folks have something running in VM in the back ground? (AntiSpyWare, Antivirus, small apps???) thats increasing the usage?

Jan 10, 2007, 07:51 PM

Olivier
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Quote:

Originally Posted by Tim Surgent

Hello everyone!

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

...

Once again I would like to encourage you to send your bug reports to beta@parallels.com mailbox. Be it non-working USB device, a description of your Boot Camp installation that fails to boot inside Parallels Desktop box or the specific application that is not handled correctly by Coherence – we are interested in any feedback that lets us improve Parallels Desktop and deliver the best product to you!

Best regards,
Tim and the Parallels Team

I would like to re-iterate warm congratulations to you all at Parallels and especially those working hard on the system code itself. This product is fantastic. (I am not at all a Bootcamp user) and short of some crashes after long useage timm on 3106, I have had so few issues since April 2006 and all the beta and released versions...

Now testing... First thing, on my XP VM, after installing new VM tools and rebooting, I had the warning that hardware config changed significantly. I had to re-activate. Not a big issue for me anyway, just wanted to mention it.

Short of this, both my XP VM and my Vista VM seems to run perfectly (but I have been running 3120 only for an hour or so - saw your announce on the web site before your post here).

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Best Regards,
Olivier (running // Desktop on MacBookPro1,1 since April '06)

Jan 10, 2007, 08:13 PM #8
rufosx Junior Member Join: Sep 2006 Posts: 22	I'm still seeing a massive memory leak in my VMs, same as 3106. My VM that I opened with 428 MB of memory about 5 hours ago with 3120 has now consumed 761 MB of real memory and 2.64 GB of virtual memory. It goes up another 200 KB avery 5 secs. This is still a show stopping, data loss bug for me. I'm considering backing down to a much older version of parallels so I can actually be sure my VM wouldn't suddenly crash.

Jan 10, 2007, 08:13 PM

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I'm still seeing a massive memory leak in my VMs, same as 3106. My VM that I opened with 428 MB of memory about 5 hours ago with 3120 has now consumed 761 MB of real memory and 2.64 GB of virtual memory. It goes up another 200 KB avery 5 secs.

This is still a show stopping, data loss bug for me. I'm considering backing down to a much older version of parallels so I can actually be sure my VM wouldn't suddenly crash.

Jan 10, 2007, 08:19 PM #9
STim Parallels Team Join: Mar 2006 Posts: 831	rufosx, I would appreciate an extended report about the problem like rhind posted here http://forum.parallels.com/post38087-28.html Please copy this stuff to beta@parallels.com mailbox as well. TIA. Best regards, Tim

Jan 10, 2007, 09:28 PM #10
jbcaro Junior Member Join: Nov 2006 Posts: 30	Does Parallels still not work if you have more than one windows partition? While I don't need more than one while in Parallels, I do need more than one when running boot camp since I need a seperate scratch disk. Until this is fixed, Parallels is usless to me since all windows drives show up on the Mac desktop. john

Jan 11, 2007, 03:08 AM

#11

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Quote:

Originally Posted by jbcaro

Does Parallels still not work if you have more than one windows partition? While I don't need more than one while in Parallels, I do need more than one when running boot camp since I need a seperate scratch disk.

Until this is fixed, Parallels is usless to me since all windows drives show up on the Mac desktop.

john

I totally agree with you: I have always connected an external disk for my backup (via sync) with a FAT32 partition. It is not acceptable for me to disconnect it when I wan't to run Win XP Bootcamp in Parallels. Aside this I see no technical reason for the problem (the BootCamp partition should have a unique and distinct device name!?).

Jan 11, 2007, 06:53 AM #12
luz Member Join: Apr 2006 Posts: 87	Steadily growing Memory Leak in 3120 and 3106 Hello Tim, I see the same problem as rufosx and rhind. Parallels constantly increases real memory usage, at a rate of around 100k every 2 seconds. You requested an extended report from rufosx, so here is mine: I am running 3120 now (but 3106 behaved the same way) on a MBP 17" (Core Duo), 2GB RAM. I have assigned 768MB assigned to the VM which is running Win XP SP2. I do not use BootCamp, XP has two virtual hard drives C: and D: of 20GB and 10GB size. I use shared networking, and have shared folders disabled (global sharing as well now, but did not make any difference). Interestingly, the constant increase of real memory usage continues even when the VM is put into Pause mode. It stops when the VM is suspended or stopped. The memory increase brings my machine to a near full stop after around a day (with a memory consumption of 180MB/Hour my 2GB would be exhaused in theory after 12 hours latest not considering other apps' memory requirement, but the machine is asleep in between so that makes sense). I do not use coherence, but usually full screen. However the leak also exists when I use the VM exclusively in OS window mode. I have an external monitor I use at work (with the MBP's lid closed, so no dual-monitor situation). I have Sound disabled, USB and CD set to manual connect. I have HD cache policy set for better performance of Mac OS X. BTW: Like rhind, I also noticed that sometimes I can't start any Rosetta app any more - I can't say if this could be related to Parallels because Parallels almost always is running on my MBP.

Jan 11, 2007, 06:53 AM

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Steadily growing Memory Leak in 3120 and 3106

Hello Tim,

I see the same problem as rufosx and rhind.

Parallels constantly increases real memory usage, at a rate of around 100k every 2 seconds.

You requested an extended report from rufosx, so here is mine:

I am running 3120 now (but 3106 behaved the same way) on a MBP 17" (Core Duo), 2GB RAM.
I have assigned 768MB assigned to the VM which is running Win XP SP2. I do not use BootCamp, XP has two virtual hard drives C: and D: of 20GB and 10GB size. I use shared networking, and have shared folders disabled (global sharing as well now, but did not make any difference).

Interestingly, the constant increase of real memory usage continues even when the VM is put into Pause mode. It stops when the VM is suspended or stopped.

The memory increase brings my machine to a near full stop after around a day (with a memory consumption of 180MB/Hour my 2GB would be exhaused in theory after 12 hours latest not considering other apps' memory requirement, but the machine is asleep in between so that makes sense).

I do not use coherence, but usually full screen. However the leak also exists when I use the VM exclusively in OS window mode.
I have an external monitor I use at work (with the MBP's lid closed, so no dual-monitor situation).

I have Sound disabled, USB and CD set to manual connect.

I have HD cache policy set for better performance of Mac OS X.

BTW: Like rhind, I also noticed that sometimes I can't start any Rosetta app any more - I can't say if this could be related to Parallels because Parallels almost always is running on my MBP.

Jan 11, 2007, 07:19 AM #13
ajwans Junior Member Join: Dec 2006 Posts: 24	I'm still seeing CPU utilisation of 60 - 70% while the guest (Linux) is idle through the activity monitor on my MacBook 2.0GHz with 2GB RAM. I have heard nothing from the Parallels team either through my support requests or this forum to even acknowledge this problem although there are reports of it littered all over the forums. Can somebody from Parallels please admit this problem exists and let us know if it is being worked on? Will it be fixed for the release? andy

Jan 11, 2007, 07:19 AM

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I'm still seeing CPU utilisation of 60 - 70% while the guest (Linux) is idle through the activity
monitor on my MacBook 2.0GHz with 2GB RAM. I have heard nothing from the Parallels
team either through my support requests or this forum to even acknowledge this problem
although there are reports of it littered all over the forums.

Can somebody from Parallels please admit this problem exists and let us know if it is being
worked on? Will it be fixed for the release?

andy

Jan 12, 2007, 01:46 AM

#14

elan
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Are you running APE?

Quote:

Originally Posted by luz

BTW: Like rhind, I also noticed that sometimes I can't start any Rosetta app any more - I can't say if this could be related to Parallels because Parallels almost always is running on my MBP.

Are you running APE (Application Enhancer) by any chance?

If so, check your logs. I've noticed that sometimes (perhaps more likely when there was memory pressure on the system), APE causes errors that get logged like this "shared_region: 0x7fcb59c: lsf_map: unable to allocate entry". The common side effect is that Rosetta applications don't start. I reported the bug to Unsanity but never heard if they fixed it or not.

-elan

Jan 11, 2007, 02:48 PM

#15

rufosx
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Quote:

Originally Posted by Tim Surgent

rufosx,

I would appreciate an extended report about the problem like rhind posted here http://forum.parallels.com/post38087-28.html

Please copy this stuff to beta@parallels.com mailbox as well.

TIA.

Best regards,
Tim

Ok, I sent to to reports@ last week, but I'll post here and copy to beta@.

Continual increase in real and virtual memory

Here's an example : I've had open one of my VMs for the last 5 hours. Its a Windows XP VM, no coherency, running in a window. It has 396 MB of memory allocated to it. After 5 hours, it now consumes 654.11 MB of real memory and 2.64 GB of virtual memory.

I just right clicked my Parallels icon and told it to Open... so I could select another VM to start up. My machine ground to a crawl and around one min later, I get the New Virtual Machine dialog (instead of the Select a VM dialog that I should have gotten, and Quit and the close window red circle are both not available). Without starting a new VM, but watching the real memory usage, both the running VM and the setup a New VM process are increasing memory usage at the same rate, about 150-200 KB per 5 sec refresh.

My details : Mac Pro 2.66 with 3 GB of memory.

My VMs are all the same : no coherence, around 400 MB of memory, bridged ethernet, sound, USB, CDROM.

Parallels is set to Manually adjust reserved memory with a setting of 1352 MB. This should be enough for the 3 400MB VMs I usually run. All checkboxes in Appearance are unchecked. All animations disabled.

If you need more details on my setup, let me know.

Jan 11, 2007, 03:26 PM #16
thegoofs@mac.com Junior Member Join: May 2006 Posts: 12	Coherence Has Disapeared 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? - - William PS Yes I installed the new version of Parallels Tolls in Windows

Jan 11, 2007, 03:26 PM

#16

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Coherence Has Disapeared

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?
- -
William

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

Jan 16, 2007, 10:22 AM

#17

willzyba
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Slow Memory Leaking??!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tim Surgent

Hi TIm,
I don't know how Parallels grabs memory, so I can only presume I'm also watching a gradual memory leak with my installation of Parallels 3120 RC1.

When I first start up Windows, Parrallels Desktop uses about 210 MB. This gradually rises (without doing anything) to over 270 MB in the space of about 3 minutes without me doing anything.

I'm also doing some very processor intensive work numerically modeling fluid flow, and while this is running I see the amount of memory being used creep at about faster within 'Activity Monitor' by over 100Mb during a 10 minute simulation.

Once it has consumed about 500Mb then the memory usage does appear to remains more stable. But only just.

Starting MS applications like Excel or Word raise the memory usage by about 2MB. This doesn't drop when I shut down the applications.

I'm on a Mac Pro 2.66 GHz with 3GB of RAM.
Running Windows XP SP2, with the following config (note the '...' that replace boring zero settings :

Code:

[System]
Parallels VM Name = Windows XP
VM Id = {015137c0-59b4-42e1-95c0-a029a98655bf}
VM Description = 
Boot = c
OS Type = 135
Memory = 804
Video Memory = 16
Memory block size = 10
Acceleration level = 2
Enable write-back disk cache = 1
VT-x support = 1
Start auto = 0
AutoShutdown = 0
Start full screen = 0
Start dashmode = 0
Start full screen warning = 1
PC Speaker enable = 1
Multi frame = -1
[Shared folders]
Shared folders enabled = 1
Global sharing enabled = 1
Shared folders count = 3
Folder0 enabled = 0
Folder0 readonly = 0
Folder0 name = Data
Folder0 path = /Volumes/Data
Folder0 descr = 
Folder1 enabled = 0
Folder1 readonly = 0
Folder1 name = My Documents
Folder1 path = /Users/will
Folder1 descr = 
Folder2 enabled = 1
Folder2 readonly = 0
Folder2 name = Unix
Folder2 path = /Volumes/Unix
Folder2 descr = 
[Video]
Video resolutions enabled = 0
Video resolutions count = 0
[Coherence]
Show taskbar = 0
Relocate taskbar = 0
Exclude Dock = 1
Multiple displays = 0
[Floppy disks]
Floppy 0 enabled = 1
Floppy 0 = 1
Floppy 0 image = /Users/will/Library/Parallels/winxp.copy1/unattended.fdd
Floppy 0 connected = 1
[IDE devices]
Disk 0:0 enabled = 1
Disk 0:0 = 1
Disk 0:0 media = 0
Disk 0:0 connected = 1
Disk 0:0 image = winxp_plain.hdd
Disk 0:0 cylinders = 40635
Disk 0:0 heads = 16
Disk 0:0 sectors = 63
Disk 0:1 enabled = 1
Disk 0:1 = 2
Disk 0:1 media = 1
Disk 0:1 connected = 1
Disk 0:1 image = Default CD/DVD-ROM
Disk 1:0 enabled = 0
Disk 1:0 = 0
Disk 1:1 enabled = 0
Disk 1:1 = 0
[Serial ports]
COM1 enabled = 0
COM1 = 0
COM2 enabled = 0
COM2 = 0
COM3 enabled = 0
COM3 = 0
COM4 enabled = 0
COM4 = 0
[Parallel ports]
LPT1 enabled = 0
LPT1 = 0
LPT2 enabled = 0
LPT2 = 0
LPT3 enabled = 0
LPT3 = 0
[Sound]
Sound enabled = 1
Sound = 1
Sound connected = 1
Sound device = dsp
Mixer device = mixer
[Network]
Network enabled = 1
Network = 1
Network connected = 1
Adapter No = 0
Adapter name = Default Adapter
Adapter type = 4
Port = 0x00000300
IRQ = 3
MAC address = 00f0937a9f4c
Network2 enabled = 0
Network2 = 0
Network3 enabled = 0
Network3 = 0
Network4 enabled = 0
Network4 = 0
Network5 enabled = 0
Network5 = 0
[Usb]
USB enabled = 0
USB = 1
USB autoconnect = 0

-------------

On a separate note my Shared Networking doesn't work and no amount of installing or re-installing seems to help that.

Otherwise a great product.

I'm heading back to the 1940 release to test the above. The new features are great, but I would focus on making it work now - and multiprocessor when thats done.
Will.

Jan 16, 2007, 10:30 AM

#18

rjgebis
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Quote:

Originally Posted by willzyba

Code:

[System]
Parallels VM Name = Windows XP
VM Id = {015137c0-59b4-42e1-95c0-a029a98655bf}
VM Description = 
Boot = c
OS Type = 135
Memory = 804
Video Memory = 16
Memory block size = 10
Acceleration level = 2
Enable write-back disk cache = 1
VT-x support = 1
Start auto = 0
AutoShutdown = 0
Start full screen = 0
Start dashmode = 0
Start full screen warning = 1
PC Speaker enable = 1
Multi frame = -1
[Shared folders]
Shared folders enabled = 1
Global sharing enabled = 1
Shared folders count = 3
Folder0 enabled = 0
Folder0 readonly = 0
Folder0 name = Data
Folder0 path = /Volumes/Data
Folder0 descr = 
Folder1 enabled = 0
Folder1 readonly = 0
Folder1 name = My Documents
Folder1 path = /Users/will
Folder1 descr = 
Folder2 enabled = 1
Folder2 readonly = 0
Folder2 name = Unix
Folder2 path = /Volumes/Unix
Folder2 descr = 
[Video]
Video resolutions enabled = 0
Video resolutions count = 0
[Coherence]
Show taskbar = 0
Relocate taskbar = 0
Exclude Dock = 1
Multiple displays = 0
[Floppy disks]
Floppy 0 enabled = 1
Floppy 0 = 1
Floppy 0 image = /Users/will/Library/Parallels/winxp.copy1/unattended.fdd
Floppy 0 connected = 1
[IDE devices]
Disk 0:0 enabled = 1
Disk 0:0 = 1
Disk 0:0 media = 0
Disk 0:0 connected = 1
Disk 0:0 image = winxp_plain.hdd
Disk 0:0 cylinders = 40635
Disk 0:0 heads = 16
Disk 0:0 sectors = 63
Disk 0:1 enabled = 1
Disk 0:1 = 2
Disk 0:1 media = 1
Disk 0:1 connected = 1
Disk 0:1 image = Default CD/DVD-ROM
Disk 1:0 enabled = 0
Disk 1:0 = 0
Disk 1:1 enabled = 0
Disk 1:1 = 0
[Serial ports]
COM1 enabled = 0
COM1 = 0
COM2 enabled = 0
COM2 = 0
COM3 enabled = 0
COM3 = 0
COM4 enabled = 0
COM4 = 0
[Parallel ports]
LPT1 enabled = 0
LPT1 = 0
LPT2 enabled = 0
LPT2 = 0
LPT3 enabled = 0
LPT3 = 0
[Sound]
Sound enabled = 1
Sound = 1
Sound connected = 1
Sound device = dsp
Mixer device = mixer
[Network]
Network enabled = 1
Network = 1
Network connected = 1
Adapter No = 0
Adapter name = Default Adapter
Adapter type = 4
Port = 0x00000300
IRQ = 3
MAC address = 00f0937a9f4c
Network2 enabled = 0
Network2 = 0
Network3 enabled = 0
Network3 = 0
Network4 enabled = 0
Network4 = 0
Network5 enabled = 0
Network5 = 0
[Usb]
USB enabled = 0
USB = 1
USB autoconnect = 0

Not sure if this would be the same problem. But when I have Parallels set to Automatic (Memory settings) and I run two Red Hat and XP (256 and 640Mb). After I close one of the the memory allocated by Parallels is not being releases. Is there any reason for this? Since it is set to Auto?

Jan 16, 2007, 06:11 PM

#19

BillJ
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Quote:

Originally Posted by willzyba

Code:

[System]
Parallels VM Name = Windows XP
VM Id = {015137c0-59b4-42e1-95c0-a029a98655bf}
VM Description = 
Boot = c
OS Type = 135
Memory = 804
Video Memory = 16
Memory block size = 10
Acceleration level = 2
Enable write-back disk cache = 1
VT-x support = 1
Start auto = 0
AutoShutdown = 0
Start full screen = 0
Start dashmode = 0
Start full screen warning = 1
PC Speaker enable = 1
Multi frame = -1
[Shared folders]
Shared folders enabled = 1
Global sharing enabled = 1
Shared folders count = 3
Folder0 enabled = 0
Folder0 readonly = 0
Folder0 name = Data
Folder0 path = /Volumes/Data
Folder0 descr = 
Folder1 enabled = 0
Folder1 readonly = 0
Folder1 name = My Documents
Folder1 path = /Users/will
Folder1 descr = 
Folder2 enabled = 1
Folder2 readonly = 0
Folder2 name = Unix
Folder2 path = /Volumes/Unix
Folder2 descr = 
[Video]
Video resolutions enabled = 0
Video resolutions count = 0
[Coherence]
Show taskbar = 0
Relocate taskbar = 0
Exclude Dock = 1
Multiple displays = 0
[Floppy disks]
Floppy 0 enabled = 1
Floppy 0 = 1
Floppy 0 image = /Users/will/Library/Parallels/winxp.copy1/unattended.fdd
Floppy 0 connected = 1
[IDE devices]
Disk 0:0 enabled = 1
Disk 0:0 = 1
Disk 0:0 media = 0
Disk 0:0 connected = 1
Disk 0:0 image = winxp_plain.hdd
Disk 0:0 cylinders = 40635
Disk 0:0 heads = 16
Disk 0:0 sectors = 63
Disk 0:1 enabled = 1
Disk 0:1 = 2
Disk 0:1 media = 1
Disk 0:1 connected = 1
Disk 0:1 image = Default CD/DVD-ROM
Disk 1:0 enabled = 0
Disk 1:0 = 0
Disk 1:1 enabled = 0
Disk 1:1 = 0
[Serial ports]
COM1 enabled = 0
COM1 = 0
COM2 enabled = 0
COM2 = 0
COM3 enabled = 0
COM3 = 0
COM4 enabled = 0
COM4 = 0
[Parallel ports]
LPT1 enabled = 0
LPT1 = 0
LPT2 enabled = 0
LPT2 = 0
LPT3 enabled = 0
LPT3 = 0
[Sound]
Sound enabled = 1
Sound = 1
Sound connected = 1
Sound device = dsp
Mixer device = mixer
[Network]
Network enabled = 1
Network = 1
Network connected = 1
Adapter No = 0
Adapter name = Default Adapter
Adapter type = 4
Port = 0x00000300
IRQ = 3
MAC address = 00f0937a9f4c
Network2 enabled = 0
Network2 = 0
Network3 enabled = 0
Network3 = 0
Network4 enabled = 0
Network4 = 0
Network5 enabled = 0
Network5 = 0
[Usb]
USB enabled = 0
USB = 1
USB autoconnect = 0

I have the same issue with Shared Network... Since upgrading to RC1, the option is greyed out and I cannot select.

Jan 10, 2007, 08:52 PM #20
maverick808 Senior Member Join: Apr 2006 Posts: 169	Can I also ask about the Parallels naming scheme? How on earth can you have a Release Candidate when there are known bugs, and quite severe ones? It can only be a release candidate if you think this version might actually be ready to go... but surely you don't since you know it has bugs? __________________ WiFiFoFum Pocket PC Wardriving www.aspecto-software.com

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