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

Feb 1, 2007, 01:02 PM #1
STim Parallels Team Join: Mar 2006 Posts: 831	Parallels Desktop for Mac build 3150 RC2 is available for download. Hello everyone! Parallels Desktop for Mac build 3150 RC2 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 provides several very important fixes to the problems found in previous Betas and Release candidate: * The widest list of fixes are USB ones. Web cameras including iSight should work fine since now. Many other devices reported by beta-testers should work as well. * Another wide list of fixes and improvements are Boot Camp fixes. * Since RC2 it is possible to utilize Boot Camp partition installed not on the same disk as Mac OS X is. * Many BSOD conditions are fixed. * For advanced users it is now possible to edit Boot Camp partitions configurations via VM’s .pvs configuration file (check this thread for details http://forum.parallels.com/post42129.html). * Several Coherence improvements: * Windows' Start menu is now shown if one clicks Parallels Desktop icon in Dock if user has his "Show Windows Taskbar" option set to off * VM now remembers if it was last shut down in Coherence mode and starts in it next time * Clicking on Windows application on Mac now starts VM in Coherence mode with selected application. * Stability fixes – lots of segmentation fault (Parallels Desktop window closes unexpectedly) conditions are now fixed; * The nasty memory leak found in live screenshot in dock feature is now fixed. * And many other fixes… Several important known issues: * Mouse pointer may disappear during Parallels Tools upgrade. To have it reappear, right-click your mouse or uncapture and capture again the keyboard input * Parallels Tools setup does not autostart in Windows NT guest OS. You should manually start the tools installation process. * Windows 98 does not restart if the process is initiated within guest OS. You should manually restart it. * Aggressive connecting/disconnecting of multiple USB devices may result in guest BSOD or segmentation fault. * Some USB devices don’t work yet. 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 one to you! Best regards, Tim and the Parallels Team

Feb 1, 2007, 01:02 PM

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

Hello everyone!

Parallels Desktop for Mac build 3150 RC2 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 provides several very important fixes to the problems found in previous Betas and Release candidate:

* The widest list of fixes are USB ones. Web cameras including iSight should work fine since now. Many other devices reported by beta-testers should work as well.

* Another wide list of fixes and improvements are Boot Camp fixes.

* Since RC2 it is possible to utilize Boot Camp partition installed not on the same disk as Mac OS X is.
* Many BSOD conditions are fixed.
* For advanced users it is now possible to edit Boot Camp partitions configurations via VM’s .pvs configuration file (check this thread for details http://forum.parallels.com/post42129.html).

* Several Coherence improvements:

* Windows' Start menu is now shown if one clicks Parallels Desktop icon in Dock if user has his "Show Windows Taskbar" option set to off
* VM now remembers if it was last shut down in Coherence mode and starts in it next time
* Clicking on Windows application on Mac now starts VM in Coherence mode with selected application.

* Stability fixes – lots of segmentation fault (Parallels Desktop window closes unexpectedly) conditions are now fixed;

* The nasty memory leak found in live screenshot in dock feature is now fixed.

* And many other fixes…

Several important known issues:

* Mouse pointer may disappear during Parallels Tools upgrade. To have it reappear, right-click your mouse or uncapture and capture again the keyboard input
* Parallels Tools setup does not autostart in Windows NT guest OS. You should manually start the tools installation process.
* Windows 98 does not restart if the process is initiated within guest OS. You should manually restart it.
* Aggressive connecting/disconnecting of multiple USB devices may result in guest BSOD or segmentation fault.
* Some USB devices don’t work yet.

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 one to you!

Best regards,
Tim and the Parallels Team

Feb 1, 2007, 01:39 PM #2
engyew Member Join: Jun 2006 Posts: 38	Yeah! iSight support!!! oo yeah, oo yeah, uh-huh, uh-huh. Way to go guys! Thanks! :D

Feb 1, 2007, 01:58 PM #3
engyew Member Join: Jun 2006 Posts: 38	... but no drivers! :( I can see iSight in my hardware list but it has not drivers.

Feb 1, 2007, 02:12 PM

STim
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Quote:

Originally Posted by engyew

... but no drivers! :( I can see iSight in my hardware list but it has not drivers.

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.

Feb 1, 2007, 02:16 PM #5
328iGuy Junior Member Join: Feb 2007 Posts: 1	Can iSight be used strictly for ichat still or can we use isight as a webcam for MSN for example in XP? Thanks

Feb 1, 2007, 02:20 PM #6
alain Junior Member Join: Jan 2007 Posts: 8	And where is Vista Bootcamp Support ? I'm very surprised that Parallels doesn't support Vista on Bootcamp partition yet. Is there a legal problem ? Could Parallels Team tell a little bit more about this ? Thanks, Alain

Feb 1, 2007, 04:42 PM

nycruza
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Quote:

Originally Posted by 328iGuy

Can iSight be used strictly for ichat still or can we use isight as a webcam for MSN for example in XP?

Thanks

ISight works (at least for me) with the latest MSN Messenger, but does not seem to work with Yahoo!

ajm

Feb 1, 2007, 02:29 PM #8
PeterH Junior Member Join: Dec 2006 Posts: 13	RC2 and Boot Camp on separate disk OK, now RC2 detects that my Boot Camp installation in on disk other than where OS X is installed. That's entirely correct. The problem is that when I try to boot up my Windows XP, it displays this message: More than one Windows partitions are found. This is not a standard Boot Camp configuration. Please refer to the Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide, Using Boot Camp Windows XP Installation chapter for instructions on how to configure Parallels virtual marchine in case of a non-standard Boot Camp configuration on your Macintosh computer. That's very interesting and absolutely true. The problem is that after reading the four relevant HTML help pages, I don't know how I can fix the problem. The closest I've come to a solution is a defective link on page file:///Library/Parallels/Help/14239.htm referring back to "http://www.", although the hint may suggest that the right reference could be http://www.parallels.com/products/desktop/faq. I entered this address on Safari but got nowhere useful. Considering that my non-standard Boot Camp installation consits of one main NTFS partition with Windows XP on it and a 32Gb FAT32 partition for data sharing, can anyone suggest what I must manually change in my "Microsoft Windows XP.pvs" file so that my XP will boot within Parallels? Thanks.

Feb 1, 2007, 02:29 PM

PeterH
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RC2 and Boot Camp on separate disk

OK, now RC2 detects that my Boot Camp installation in on disk other than where OS X is installed. That's entirely correct. The problem is that when I try to boot up my Windows XP, it displays this message:

More than one Windows partitions are found. This is not a standard Boot Camp configuration. Please refer to the Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide, Using Boot Camp Windows XP Installation chapter for instructions on how to configure Parallels virtual marchine in case of a non-standard Boot Camp configuration on your Macintosh computer.

That's very interesting and absolutely true. The problem is that after reading the four relevant HTML help pages, I don't know how I can fix the problem. The closest I've come to a solution is a defective link on page file:///Library/Parallels/Help/14239.htm referring back to "http://www.", although the hint may suggest that the right reference could be http://www.parallels.com/products/desktop/faq. I entered this address on Safari but got nowhere useful.

Considering that my non-standard Boot Camp installation consits of one main NTFS partition with Windows XP on it and a 32Gb FAT32 partition for data sharing, can anyone suggest what I must manually change in my "Microsoft Windows XP.pvs" file so that my XP will boot within Parallels?

Thanks.

Feb 1, 2007, 02:38 PM #9
Lev Junior Member Join: Jan 2007 Posts: 8	Great update Just wanted to thank you for getting rid of the windows task bar entirely. I know this wasn't a huge concern for a lot of people, but i really appreciate it. __________________ -Lev

Feb 1, 2007, 02:45 PM

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STim
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Quote:

Originally Posted by PeterH

Please check this thread for details: http://forum.parallels.com/post42129-1.html

Feb 2, 2007, 05:14 AM #11
MacUser Member Join: Apr 2006 Posts: 43	Hello, I like to know if it is possible to get the XP drivers out of the BootCamp installer without a full BootCamp installation. I only run XP in Parallels and I only need the iSight drivers and I defenitely don't want to have a seperate BootCamp partition on my MBP. Thanks for support, regards Wim. UPDATE: I found out that the BootCamp installer only installs the Assistant. In the menu of the Assistant there is an option to save the installer for the Windows drivers (it is an .exe application) on a local folder. So there is no need to burn a CD. After running the .exe app in XP all drivers are installed and iSight is now working in Microsoft Messenger.

Feb 2, 2007, 05:14 AM

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MacUser
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Hello,

I like to know if it is possible to get the XP drivers out of the BootCamp installer without a full BootCamp installation. I only run XP in Parallels and I only need the iSight drivers and I defenitely don't want to have a seperate BootCamp partition on my MBP.

Thanks for support, regards Wim.

UPDATE:

I found out that the BootCamp installer only installs the Assistant.
In the menu of the Assistant there is an option to save the installer for the Windows drivers (it is an .exe application) on a local folder. So there is no need to burn a CD.
After running the .exe app in XP all drivers are installed and iSight is now working in Microsoft Messenger.

Feb 2, 2007, 05:26 AM #12
DVDFan Junior Member Join: Feb 2007 Posts: 1	I get the same error message about multiple Partiotion even if I have std config Hello, I get the same message: More than one Windows partitions are found. This is not a standard Boot Camp configuration. Please refer to the Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide, Using Boot Camp Windows XP Installation chapter for instructions on how to configure Parallels virtual marchine in case of a non-standard Boot Camp configuration on your Macintosh computer. But I have standard configuration. My Mac only has one hard disk containing one OS X partition and one BootCamp partitition. I did nothing special to the partition scheme but get this above message and can't use Bootcamp in Parallels. It workes with previous builds!

Feb 2, 2007, 05:26 AM

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DVDFan
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I get the same error message about multiple Partiotion even if I have std config

Hello,

I get the same message:

More than one Windows partitions are found. This is not a standard Boot Camp configuration. Please refer to the Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide, Using Boot Camp Windows XP Installation chapter for instructions on how to configure Parallels virtual marchine in case of a non-standard Boot Camp configuration on your Macintosh computer.

But I have standard configuration. My Mac only has one hard disk containing one OS X partition and one BootCamp partitition. I did nothing special to the partition scheme but get this above message and can't use Bootcamp in Parallels. It workes with previous builds!

Feb 2, 2007, 01:57 PM

#13

bdcnil2
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Quote:

Originally Posted by Tim Surgent

Any way to uninstall the mac drivers? I followed your advice on the install, still do not see any isight and now the VM runs at 240 mb to 400 mb-plus and growing. The ram leak still happens.

I tried uninstalling the macDrivers from remove programs but it cannot find the .msi file.

any suggestions?

Feb 2, 2007, 02:33 PM #14
kaben Junior Member Join: Feb 2007 Posts: 1	Unexpected exit in 3150 Hi; Here's a Parallels crash : I was working in another application when Parallels unexpectedly quit; I don't know how to replicate it, but I had just run Google Updater which had requested a restart. The OS X "Problem Report for Parallels Desktop" says: Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001) Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE (0x0002) at 0x01aba000 I can post the full Problem Report if Parallels Support would like. -- K

Feb 2, 2007, 02:33 PM

#14

kaben
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Unexpected exit in 3150

Hi;

Here's a Parallels crash : I was working in another application when Parallels unexpectedly quit; I don't know how to replicate it, but I had just run Google Updater which had requested a restart.

The OS X "Problem Report for Parallels Desktop" says:

Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE (0x0002) at 0x01aba000

I can post the full Problem Report if Parallels Support would like.

-- K

Feb 3, 2007, 02:30 PM

#15

rinconj
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Quote:

Originally Posted by Tim Surgent

I have a Vista Business VM running on 3150 with Parallels tools also updated and I followed everything you said but vista doesn't allow the drivers to be registered at the last step of the installation and it failed with an error:

""ERROR: -1603 FATAL ERROR DURING INSTALLATION". Consult Windows Installer Help (MSI.CHM) or MSDN for more information"

The vista business VM is a full installation copy, not an upgrade from win XP.
It only has one vista update installed ( KB930857).

The machine is a core duo MacBook 2.0GHz.

After that failure, I did a
"C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\Install Macintosh Drivers for Windows XP.exe" /A /v
through Run on vista and it put all the bootcamp's drivers in a directory. So I thought I might be able to install the driver through vista's device manager. It allows me to install, but video window is pitch black in windows live messenger's "audio and video setup". even though iSight's LED does turn on when I choose "Built-in iSight" during step 3, "Webcam setup".

Feb 3, 2007, 03:29 PM

#16

darkone
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Quote:

Originally Posted by rinconj

a quick google for isight bootcamp vista, sheds some light on this. It appears that although you can get the driver installed, the drivers for XP dont work under vista, so you will have to wait for new drivers from Apple.

Feb 5, 2007, 04:10 AM #17
dhjdhj Senior Member Join: Apr 2006 Posts: 220	Hmmm, how can I get iSight drivers without installing bootcamp? I don't want bootcamp!

Feb 5, 2007, 06:31 AM

#18

mkummer
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Quote:

Originally Posted by dhjdhj

Hmmm, how can I get iSight drivers without installing bootcamp? I don't want bootcamp!

You dont have to install Bootcamp in the sence you install a partition etc. It is only necessary to install the Bootcamp Software from Apple to get the drivers dmg. After installing these drivers in Parallels VM the bootcamp install can be deleted...

__________________
Regards, Michael

Feb 8, 2007, 09:21 AM

#19

CALATAYUD Francis
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Quote:

Originally Posted by Tim Surgent

Hi,
I have a Mac Book pro with Built in sight. I update my parallels desktop with Build 3150 RC2 . I follow your intructions for using Isight , after installation and reboot computer , nothing change windows messenger does'nt recognize Isight.
What I have to do.
Thanks

Feb 8, 2007, 04:39 PM

#20

say2k
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Quote:

Originally Posted by Tim Surgent

I did this and I have no idea where to find the isight on the windowz.... it doesn't come up in the drop down menu for the webcam set up in MSN... any thoughts?

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