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

Feb 8, 2007, 04:59 PM #1
BillInSoBe Member Join: Apr 2006 Posts: 84	Parallels unexplainable shut-down I think before Parallels spends any more time adding support for iSight and trivial new features they should work on product stability. 3150 RC2 still unexplainably shuts down. No warning. No Nothing. I was busy working away when all of a sudden Parallels shutdown. I rebooted my VM yesterday... there's no reason why it shouldn't be able to run for more then 24 hours at a time. You would think one of the requirements for reaching RC was that the product can run for days at a time without issue. APPARENTLY NOT. WTF??? What kind of stress testing is taking place? I can't wait to see how many people want their money back once this thing hits the market. QA... what QA?

Feb 8, 2007, 04:59 PM

BillInSoBe
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Parallels unexplainable shut-down

I think before Parallels spends any more time adding support for iSight and trivial new features they should work on product stability.

3150 RC2 still unexplainably shuts down. No warning. No Nothing. I was busy working away when all of a sudden Parallels shutdown. I rebooted my VM yesterday... there's no reason why it shouldn't be able to run for more then 24 hours at a time.

You would think one of the requirements for reaching RC was that the product can run for days at a time without issue. APPARENTLY NOT. WTF??? What kind of stress testing is taking place?

I can't wait to see how many people want their money back once this thing hits the market.

QA... what QA?

Feb 15, 2007, 09:04 PM

leebu
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Bootcamp driver install exe is bombing with a fatal error.

Any tips on why this exe would be bombing with a fatal error half-way through the driver installations?? It crashes and backs out whatever drivers it did install..

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tim Surgent

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 23, 2007, 05:54 PM

Mr. A
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Getting error while trying this...

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Originally Posted by Tim Surgent

I did all this, after I start to install this file, it starts copying files and then within a minute, it gives errors message that it cannot find the file in C: documents and settings\applicationdata\local\is_52 and everytime it is changing temp location. So I don't know what to do. I even tried to burn a macintosh drivers cd and then it is doing the same thing.

Hope I don't need to have boot camp installed to try this? I am not running Boot camp, just parallels.

Feb 1, 2007, 04:07 PM #4
sgginc Junior Member Join: Apr 2006 Posts: 6	Excuse my stupid question but what windows program uses the iSight camera? Thanks ... Ken

Feb 1, 2007, 04:10 PM #5
errandwolfe Junior Member Join: Dec 2006 Posts: 9	No External iSight Well I was very happy to see iSight support has been added to release 3150. Then my joy turned to sadness. This appears to only work with the new iMac and Macbook that have the built in iSight. Those of us with Mac Mini's and Mac Pro's are still out of luck with our firewire iSights. It seems unless you want to spend a WHOLE lotta money on a new Apple display with built in iSight you are out of luck. We can only hope that at some point Parallels will add the firewire support so we can use our cams. __________________ Errand Wolfe Running Parallels 3 Build 5584 on a MacBook Pro

Feb 1, 2007, 04:10 PM

errandwolfe
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No External iSight

Well I was very happy to see iSight support has been added to release 3150. Then my joy turned to sadness. This appears to only work with the new iMac and Macbook that have the built in iSight. Those of us with Mac Mini's and Mac Pro's are still out of luck with our firewire iSights. It seems unless you want to spend a WHOLE lotta money on a new Apple display with built in iSight you are out of luck. We can only hope that at some point Parallels will add the firewire support so we can use our cams.

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Feb 3, 2007, 02:31 AM

dprisoner
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I believe the problem here is that Parallels still does not work with firewire...

-Ken in the Silly-con Valley

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Originally Posted by errandwolfe

Feb 1, 2007, 04:17 PM

engyew
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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.

It works. Installed Bootcamp drivers and I am happily using MSN. Yeah!! Refresh rate a bit slow compare to aMSN though. Not sure.

Feb 1, 2007, 04:26 PM #8
dailo Member Join: Apr 2006 Posts: 84	For those of you with a working BootCamp and Parallels could you look at your hardware profile and see if there is only one profile or more listed? I am trying to fix my bootcamp partition so I can boot into it, but it keeps on giving me BSOD.

Feb 4, 2007, 05:25 PM #9
doug13 Junior Member Join: Nov 2006 Posts: 2	BSOD error when installing Parallel tools update + Once I booted from the Boot Camp partition, I got through login and to the dialog asking whether to update the drivers to correspond with the version of Parallels. I clicked Yes or OK or whatever the button is. Very shortly thereafter I got a BSOD which was wiped by an immediate parallele reboot that clears it so fast that I could not read or note anything from it. I tried again. Same result. Any suggestions? FYI in case it's relevant, immediately prior to this I had teh following experience: After installing RC2 (3150), when I tried to open the Boot Camp VM I got the "More than one windows partition..." message reported by a few others. This installation is completely standard and worked fine with RC1. I tried a variety of workarounds and finally got it to start by removing my USB2 drive that contains two FAT32 partitions. (I haven't used this with Parallels in the past, but it was attached to the system.) This may be fixable with the custom config file edits, although that process is a bit cryptic to be needed for a simple installation...

Feb 4, 2007, 05:25 PM

doug13
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BSOD error when installing Parallel tools update +

Once I booted from the Boot Camp partition, I got through login and to the dialog asking whether to update the drivers to correspond with the version of Parallels. I clicked Yes or OK or whatever the button is. Very shortly thereafter I got a BSOD which was wiped by an immediate parallele reboot that clears it so fast that I could not read or note anything from it. I tried again. Same result. Any suggestions?

FYI in case it's relevant, immediately prior to this I had teh following experience:

After installing RC2 (3150), when I tried to open the Boot Camp VM I got the "More than one windows partition..." message reported by a few others. This installation is completely standard and worked fine with RC1. I tried a variety of workarounds and finally got it to start by removing my USB2 drive that contains two FAT32 partitions. (I haven't used this with Parallels in the past, but it was attached to the system.) This may be fixable with the custom config file edits, although that process is a bit cryptic to be needed for a simple installation...

Feb 6, 2007, 09:21 PM #10
Robertito Junior Member Join: Dec 2006 Posts: 12	On my MacBook I install the last version of Parallels with the Apple Drivers but I can't see my Isight Camera. Maybee, I doing thing wrong but I hope I can make it work.

Feb 7, 2007, 06:21 PM

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Robertito
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Isight problem

Quote:

Originally Posted by Robertito

On my MacBook I install the last version of Parallels with the Apple Drivers but I can't see my Isight Camera. Maybee, I doing thing wrong but I hope I can make it work.

When I start under Boot Camp I see my Isght driver and the camera works, but when I start under Parallels I don't see th Isight drivers and the camera doesn't work.

:( Anybody can help me ???? :(

Feb 1, 2007, 03:16 PM #12
luomat Member Join: Apr 2006 Posts: 98	mirror http://tntluoma.com/temp/Parallels-D...150-Mac-en.dmg because spaces on the internet are dumb

Feb 1, 2007, 03:41 PM #13
crunchy2 Junior Member Join: Feb 2007 Posts: 5	This is working great and I love the changes to Coherence, but there is one problem with it. When I set Coherence to use multiple displays, I get an error message when I try to go into Coherence mode, saying that the windows environment can't support the screen resolution. I increased the VRAM for the virtual machine to 32 MB but it didn't make any difference. It works fine if I don't let it span multiple displays, but that has the weird effect, of course, of making windows invisible if moved onto the second display. I have a MacBook and am using the built-in 1280x800 display and an external 1680x1050 display.

Feb 1, 2007, 03:41 PM

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This is working great and I love the changes to Coherence, but there is one problem with it. When I set Coherence to use multiple displays, I get an error message when I try to go into Coherence mode, saying that the windows environment can't support the screen resolution. I increased the VRAM for the virtual machine to 32 MB but it didn't make any difference. It works fine if I don't let it span multiple displays, but that has the weird effect, of course, of making windows invisible if moved onto the second display.

I have a MacBook and am using the built-in 1280x800 display and an external 1680x1050 display.

Feb 1, 2007, 06:55 PM #14
Liong612 Junior Member Join: Dec 2006 Posts: 15	Sony HD5 and sonicstage works perfectly !!!!! and FAST ! Thank you Parallels Team :)

Feb 1, 2007, 07:05 PM #15
Robertito Junior Member Join: Dec 2006 Posts: 12	That work fine here, but I still have the always Window at close who say WindowXp need an updated, At close the update is done and I have to do it agin at the next closing of the VM.

Feb 1, 2007, 07:12 PM #16
greg1075 Member Join: Jul 2006 Posts: 50	My VM has disappeared and I get the OS installation assistant promt at start up. Please please PLEASE don't tell I lost everything.

Feb 3, 2007, 04:06 AM

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Andrew @ Parallels
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Quote:

Originally Posted by greg1075

My VM has disappeared and I get the OS installation assistant promt at start up. Please please PLEASE don't tell I lost everything.

Hi Greg,
You should go to Finder, folder Documents->Parallels->Your VM Name and double click on PVS file. This will load your VM into PD and add it to VM catalog.

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Feb 3, 2007, 02:45 PM #18
mhewlett Junior Member Join: Dec 2006 Posts: 1	Garmin GPSmap 60CS Now Works! Thanks, Parallel Team! I installed the 3150 Mac build and now my Garmin GPSmap 60CS not only is recognized by the virtual machine, but is also found by Map Source! I was a happy camper before, but now I'm a happy trekker also! Marty Hewlett:)

Feb 1, 2007, 08:02 PM #19
gholland04 Junior Member Join: Dec 2006 Posts: 6	Is there anyone here who can answer a question for those who are "not" using bootcamp?? I've never had an issue with RC1, other than a memory leak. After installing RC2 is XP will not complete boot. I get to the point of bringing up the network and it hangs. Any ideas? Thanks,

Feb 1, 2007, 08:16 PM #20
organik Junior Member Join: Apr 2006 Posts: 23	Install Parallels Tools = CRASH! Bad Pool Header error, and xp crashes hard. ideas?

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