Parallels Desktop for Mac build 3170 RC3 is available for download.

Feb 15, 2007, 04:40 PM #1
STim Parallels Team Join: Mar 2006 Posts: 831	Parallels Desktop for Mac build 3170 RC3 is available for download. Hello everyone! Parallels Desktop for Mac build 3170 RC3 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 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 Candidates: * Windows Vista Upgrade support added. If you’re planning to upgrade your Windows XP installation to Vista, shut down your guest OS and go to Actions->Prepare Windows Vista Upgrade… menu item. Parallels Desktop will tune your Virtual Machine and start it. All you need to do is to wait till Windows XP is loaded, insert Windows Vista CD and start the upgrade. * Global Sharing option is now disabled by default. We believe the feature has received enough testing already. From now on, you make the decision to enable real drag-and-drop or not. The new behavior is : * On your first drag and drop attempt you will be prompted to choose whether you’d like to enable Global/Local sharing or just copy the file to Windows. * The difference between Global and Local sharing are: Global Sharing - shares the whole Mac filesystem. Local Sharing - shares only your Home folder(a nice enhancement request we had received from beta testers.) NOTE! Global sharing is forcibly disabled for all existing RC1 and RC2 installations upon RC3 upgrade. * USB fixes. Both stability fixes and new devices support. Feel free to check your favorite device with RC3 and report to us if it still doesn’t work (beta@parallels.com). * Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard” experimental support. The best virtualization solution for Mac is now available for early Leopard adopters. * And many other 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 one to you! Best regards, Tim and the Parallels Team

Feb 15, 2007, 04:40 PM

STim
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Parallels Desktop for Mac build 3170 RC3 is available for download.

Hello everyone!

Parallels Desktop for Mac build 3170 RC3 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 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 Candidates:

* Windows Vista Upgrade support added. If you’re planning to upgrade your Windows XP installation to Vista, shut down your guest OS and go to Actions->Prepare Windows Vista Upgrade… menu item. Parallels Desktop will tune your Virtual Machine and start it. All you need to do is to wait till Windows XP is loaded, insert Windows Vista CD and start the upgrade.

* Global Sharing option is now disabled by default. We believe the feature has received enough testing already. From now on, you make the decision to enable real drag-and-drop or not. The new behavior is :

* On your first drag and drop attempt you will be prompted to choose whether you’d like to enable Global/Local sharing or just copy the file to Windows.

* The difference between Global and Local sharing are:

**Global Sharing - shares the whole Mac filesystem.

**Local Sharing - shares only your Home folder(a nice enhancement request we had received from beta testers.)

NOTE! Global sharing is forcibly disabled for all existing RC1 and RC2 installations upon RC3 upgrade.

* USB fixes. Both stability fixes and new devices support. Feel free to check your favorite device with RC3 and report to us if it still doesn’t work (beta@parallels.com).

* Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard” experimental support. The best virtualization solution for Mac is now available for early Leopard adopters.

* And many other 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 one to you!

Best regards,
Tim and the Parallels Team

Feb 15, 2007, 04:45 PM #2
ebernet Member Join: Dec 2006 Posts: 56	Thanks guys - talk about timing. I just logged in to see if there was an update, and here there is! Has the issue with the continuously nagging security update from 2 years ago been fixed?

Feb 15, 2007, 04:58 PM #3
event Junior Member Join: Feb 2007 Posts: 6	I get this: 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 machine in case of a non-standard Boot Camp configuration on your Macintosh computer. whenever I try launching a VM when I have my Silicon Image SI 3132 SATAlink RAID controller ExpressCard on. It works with it off, but I don't want to have to disable it each time I want to launch a VM...

Feb 15, 2007, 04:58 PM

event
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I get this:

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 machine in case of a non-standard Boot Camp configuration on your Macintosh computer.

whenever I try launching a VM when I have my Silicon Image SI 3132 SATAlink RAID controller ExpressCard on. It works with it off, but I don't want to have to disable it each time I want to launch a VM...

Feb 15, 2007, 07:33 PM

fengzhou
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Cannot Start Boot Camp Windows in Parallels

Dear Parallels,

I get the same error message. I am using Macbook Pro, 2.16 GHz Intel Core Duo. OSX 10.4.8. I updated from Parallels beta Built 31xx. (I forgot the last two digits, but xx<50). The Boot Camp Windows XP is on a FAT32 partition.

I get the same error message when I tried to add Boot Camp partition as a hard drive to a non-bootcamp VM.

Please help! Thanks.

Quote:

Originally Posted by event

Feb 15, 2007, 09:17 PM

fengzhou
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BootCamp Error Fixed by Custom BootCamp Configuration

The Custon BootCamp Configuration fixed the problem that BootCamp Windows cannot be started in Parallels. It took a few trials, but BootCamp windows eventually started. People had the same problem in an earlier release. The configuration procedure is on this page.

http://forum.parallels.com/post42129-1.html

My BootCamp partition worked before the upgrade, and there are no multiple partitions on it.

Maybe this could be ironed out in the next release, or a solution to this error message be listed in the manual.

Thanks.

Quote:

Originally Posted by fengzhou

Feb 15, 2007, 10:17 PM #6
event Junior Member Join: Feb 2007 Posts: 6	Ok, so I am confused... is the prepare windows for Vista upgrade feature-- is that only for VMs, or is that for Boot Camp as well? Will coherence mode work with Vista now?

Feb 21, 2007, 05:32 AM

Jackie7
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Quote:

Originally Posted by event

... If you got external HD such as USB hard disk, disconnect it and try again, I had the same problem, so I unplugged usb external Hard disk, then Bingo.. it worked. Hope this helps.

Feb 15, 2007, 04:58 PM #8
Radiohead Junior Member Join: Feb 2007 Posts: 1	Come on guys! What's up with Linux and BSD Parallels Tools? I want this feature very bad! I do not need all this Windows crap ;)

Feb 15, 2007, 05:11 PM #9
psycoperl Junior Member Join: Feb 2007 Posts: 10	Migrations from Parallels to a Boot Camp Based Partition This is great and now that you have the iSight support built in I am PSYCHED!, However I want to know how can I move my installation, programs and files from my Parallels install (build 1970) to the new install of Parallels.

Feb 15, 2007, 05:32 PM #10
darkone Senior Member Join: Jul 2006 Posts: 814	thanks Parallels guys.. great work.. As for Linux tools.. I seem to recall reading very recently that Parallels were looking at this for a future major release, not an RC ?

Feb 15, 2007, 05:47 PM

#11

dkp
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Quote:

Originally Posted by psycoperl

This is great and now that you have the iSight support built in I am PSYCHED!, However I want to know how can I move my installation, programs and files from my Parallels install (build 1970) to the new install of Parallels.

Before you update to RC3:

Shut down (do not suspend) all your VM's. Copy your VM folder tree to CD or DVD. If you're using Bootcamp you're on your own to figure out how that's done. The new version will see and run your existing VM's, and if something goes wrong you'll have backups.

Feb 15, 2007, 05:52 PM #12
psycoperl Junior Member Join: Feb 2007 Posts: 10	The question I posed is how to move the data into the Parallels partition?

Feb 15, 2007, 11:24 PM

#13

luomat
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Please recognize reality

Quote:

Originally Posted by Radiohead

Come on guys! What's up with Linux and BSD Parallels Tools? I want this feature very bad! I do not need all this Windows crap ;)

Right now their emphasis is on Windows. From one RC to another I would expect to see bug fixes, not huge new features.

I love Linux and BSD, run them both myself actually, but the reality is that the biggest slice of pie on the table is people wanting to run Windows apps.

I want to see Parallels tools for other OSes, very much so. But getting Windows stable and usable is surely understandable at this point.

Feb 15, 2007, 11:39 PM #14
ajcooper Junior Member Join: Sep 2006 Posts: 19	I know it says better USB support, but there's no mention of the Logitech 10.4 and 10.5 drivers . The last RC specified that they didn't work, this one doesn't say if they do or don't. Any news?

Feb 16, 2007, 12:28 AM

#15

Stevamundo
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Quote:

Originally Posted by ajcooper

I know it says better USB support, but there's no mention of the Logitech 10.4 and 10.5 drivers . The last RC specified that they didn't work, this one doesn't say if they do or don't. Any news?

Well try it for yourself!

Feb 15, 2007, 05:37 PM

#16

ebernet
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Quote:

Originally Posted by ebernet

Thanks guys - talk about timing. I just logged in to see if there was an update, and here there is!
Has the issue with the continuously nagging security update from 2 years ago been fixed?

Nope, Looks like I am STILL prompted for the damn update after it installs the parallels tools...
PLEASE fix this already....

Feb 15, 2007, 05:54 PM #17
psycoperl Junior Member Join: Feb 2007 Posts: 10	Is there any change to the minimal virtural video of 8MB that is used in this new version... I have a 256MB Video Card and would like to enable Windows in Parallels to get more use out of it.

Feb 15, 2007, 06:56 PM #18
greg1075 Member Join: Jul 2006 Posts: 50	I'm not upgrading to anything until that unexpected shutdown issue has been fixed, period.

Feb 20, 2007, 11:15 AM

#19

JLadd
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I am still having this problem, too.

Quote:

Originally Posted by greg1075

I'm not upgrading to anything until that unexpected shutdown issue has been fixed, period.

I agree.

Even when I completely removed Build 1970, down to prefs files in all accounts and the system, Parallels would quit unexpectedly when changing to full screen.

Feb 15, 2007, 07:43 PM

#20

Dezro
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Quote:

Originally Posted by psycoperl

Is there any change to the minimal virtural video of 8MB that is used in this new version... I have a 256MB Video Card and would like to enable Windows in Parallels to get more use out of it.

You can change the amount of VRAM available to a VM under Memory in its configuration screen. However, Parallels takes this out of your Mac's RAM, not your video card's. In addition, Parallels doesn't do any 3D acceleration, so the only thing more virtual VRAM does is enable higher color depth and larger screen sizes.

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