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

Jan 11, 2007, 10:45 AM

mrmkirsch
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Originally Posted by maverick808

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?

In the world of software development, there is no such thing of bug-free products. Bugs are classified by their severity, and every release candidate, as well as actual releases, is sent into the world with bugs. It is show-stopping, severe, dangerous bugs that must be extinguished before releasing a product. If a product had to be totally bug free before release, there would never be any releases!

Jan 12, 2007, 09:09 AM

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Originally Posted by maverick808

You certainly have no idea how software development occurs. Even MS release candidates for Vista had known bugs.

Lighten up.

Jan 10, 2007, 09:29 PM

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Originally Posted by rufosx

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.

Oh so that explains why I've felt like my computer is slow lately! I've been watching activity monitor and noticing the same thing but I couldn't remember if it that was abnormal. Mine's going up about 30-40kb/sec, so very similar.

I have 2gb of RAM in my MacBook, and 492mb assigned to Parallels. Virtual memory is 2GB on launch and stays around there.

Jan 10, 2007, 09:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Tim Surgent

Hello everyone!

Parallels Desktop for Mac build 3120 is now available for download.
[...snip...]
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

you guys rock! now go get some sleep!

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Jan 10, 2007, 10:18 PM #5
MysticalOS Junior Member Join: Dec 2006 Posts: 14	I feel like i wasted my time reporting all the bugs i found in beta 3 to forums and email, got no replies in either or and they weren't fixed in this build. :\

Jan 10, 2007, 10:29 PM #6
purephase Junior Member Join: Dec 2006 Posts: 16	Any chance that Vista and Bootcamp will be supported before the final release? I realize it's RC now so it's probably on feature freeze, but I thought I'd ask anyway. Thanks! Keep up the great work. Despite the inquiry, this product rocks.

Jan 10, 2007, 10:48 PM #7
maverick808 Senior Member Join: Apr 2006 Posts: 169	What is with the MASSIVE .mem file? Is this a copy of the VMs RAM? Is this also why Parallels now takes about 20 times as long to start up my VM? I notice the VM now suspends and resumes really quickly. Is this what this .mem file enables? If so, I'd rather have an option to create this file as I don't want it, and I'd rather the machine didn't take about 5 minutes to start up in the first place. __________________ WiFiFoFum Pocket PC Wardriving www.aspecto-software.com

Jan 10, 2007, 10:48 PM

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What is with the MASSIVE .mem file? Is this a copy of the VMs RAM? Is this also why Parallels now takes about 20 times as long to start up my VM?

I notice the VM now suspends and resumes really quickly. Is this what this .mem file enables? If so, I'd rather have an option to create this file as I don't want it, and I'd rather the machine didn't take about 5 minutes to start up in the first place.

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Jan 10, 2007, 11:02 PM

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Originally Posted by maverick808

It's a suspended session. That is a state file of the cpu, memory, and open files, etc., at the time the session was suspended. There's also a .sav file. Not sure what that's all about yet. It may be a delta file from one session to the next. That makes me think it's on the path to snapshots. If you unsuspend it should disappear. At least it used to. I'll check - my curiosity is piqued. I too noticed the speedy suspensions compared to earlier releases. Nice, no?

Edit: I did check it and the .sav file disappeared after unsuspending the session. The .mem file lingers on. If that is what is responsible for the faster performance I'm happy with it. The .mem file is 1.5g here. Not that bad.

Jan 11, 2007, 03:26 AM

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Originally Posted by maverick808

What is with the MASSIVE .mem file? Is this a copy of the VMs RAM? Is this also why Parallels now takes about 20 times as long to start up my VM?

No - it is some kind of unknown bug. Could you describe test case in more details please?

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Jan 10, 2007, 10:53 PM

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Originally Posted by purephase

Any chance that Vista and Bootcamp will be supported before the final release? I realize it's RC now so it's probably on feature freeze, but I thought I'd ask anyway.

Thanks! Keep up the great work. Despite the inquiry, this product rocks.

I've just done an install of 3120 on a system that had Boot Camp installed and I used the Boot Camp image for the VM configuration. It seems to be working fine for me. What am I missing?

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Jan 11, 2007, 08:09 AM

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Originally Posted by drval

I've just done an install of 3120 on a system that had Boot Camp installed and I used the Boot Camp image for the VM configuration. It seems to be working fine for me. What am I missing?

Is Vista installed on the Bootcamp partition, or XP? Parallels supports XP but whenever you try to select the Bootcamp partition after selecting Vista as the install OS the Bootcamp option is greyed out.

Jan 10, 2007, 10:47 PM #12
dkp Senior Member Join: May 2006 Posts: 1,415	Tim - This has been a very good release. My earlier problems that came up after the replacements of 1970 have all disappeared. Of primary interest, my full screen (1440x900) screens are back for Solaris. My Treo phone syncs perfectly in OS X. CPU temperatures are down and system resources are in the acceptable range. Too soon to know if this last will creep or stay stable but it's starting out in the black and holding. That translates to battery life and that is a good thing! And my thumb drive migrates cleanly among the various VMs perfectly. This is a little thing but it is a big little thing for me. I'd like to offer a special thank you for the quality and completeness of the release announcement. We can know better what to expect and what your team is still working hard on. Kudos to you and the entire team for an ever more excellent product. It just gets better. I have to confess I have really enjoyed watching this product launch, take off, and grow. I second Don's sentiment - turn off the cell phones and take a well deserved break!

Jan 10, 2007, 10:47 PM

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Tim - This has been a very good release. My earlier problems that came up after the replacements of 1970 have all disappeared. Of primary interest, my full screen (1440x900) screens are back for Solaris. My Treo phone syncs perfectly in OS X. CPU temperatures are down and system resources are in the acceptable range. Too soon to know if this last will creep or stay stable but it's starting out in the black and holding. That translates to battery life and that is a good thing! And my thumb drive migrates cleanly among the various VMs perfectly. This is a little thing but it is a *big* little thing for me.

I'd like to offer a special thank you for the quality and completeness of the release announcement. We can know better what to expect and what your team is still working hard on. Kudos to you and the entire team for an ever more excellent product. It just gets better. I have to confess I have really enjoyed watching this product launch, take off, and grow. I second Don's sentiment - turn off the cell phones and take a well deserved break!

Jan 11, 2007, 08:21 PM

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Originally Posted by MysticalOS

I feel like i wasted my time reporting all the bugs i found in beta 3 to forums and email, got no replies in either or and they weren't fixed in this build. :\

Did you ever think perhaps the Parallels guys are just plain busy? This isn't a social networking group.

Jan 11, 2007, 08:34 PM

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Originally Posted by dworkman

Did you ever think perhaps the Parallels guys are just plain busy? This isn't a social networking group.

they clearly fix the bugs reported by several users

My own heavy cpu usage is a win XP issue depending on what you install and run on the guest OS

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Jan 10, 2007, 11:10 PM #15
newf709 Junior Member Join: Jan 2007 Posts: 10	Motorola Q The Motorola Q still does not work....... I have been hoping with each new build there would be a fix for this problem.....other than that you guys have done a GREAT job!!!!!!

Jan 10, 2007, 11:24 PM

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Originally Posted by newf709

The Motorola Q still does not work....... I have been hoping with each new build there would be a fix for this problem.....other than that you guys have done a GREAT job!!!!!!

I'm guessing you mean it fails in Windows? If that is so, then have you verified there is no agent running in OS X that would interecept the data before Windows sees it, and barring that have you used the Parallels device menu to enable it in Windows? If it works nowhere forgive my assumptions as I've not see the problem raised before.

Jan 10, 2007, 11:29 PM

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Originally Posted by dkp

The Q has never worked in Parallels. As a mobile developer I have many many mobile devices lying around and the Q is the only one I have never got working in Parallels. Every other PDA and phone seems to work great. To be honest, the Q barely works in native Windows on any machine anyway. It's a very flaky device.

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Jan 11, 2007, 09:13 PM #18
mroedig Junior Member Join: Oct 2006 Posts: 6	My Motorola Q works PERFECTLY "out of the box", so to speak, with Fusion. I love Parallels, but if they can't get the USB, right my choice is made.

Jan 11, 2007, 09:55 PM #19
triplex Junior Member Join: Dec 2006 Posts: 12	I got blue screen with STOP: 0x0000007B (which means "INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE " as I know) when trying to run "bootcamp vm" with fresh installed 3120 RC1 parallels. Bootcamp windows is fresh installed too on fat32. my boot.ini of bc win looks like: [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOW S [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

Jan 11, 2007, 09:55 PM

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I got blue screen with STOP: 0x0000007B (which means "INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE " as I know) when trying to run "bootcamp vm" with fresh installed 3120 RC1 parallels. Bootcamp windows is fresh installed too on fat32.

my boot.ini of bc win looks like:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOW S
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

Jan 11, 2007, 10:28 PM #20
tc60045 Junior Member Join: Apr 2006 Posts: 19	I've avoided beta RC2, but gave in And Coherence has simply blown my mind. I am speechless............. .... ... .... .... .... Bravo, gang, bravo.

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