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

Feb 2, 2007, 08:25 PM

sierra
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Work around for BAD POOL HEADER

Quote:

Originally Posted by organik

Bad Pool Header error, and xp crashes hard.

ideas?

I worked around the problem by (1) booting Windows into Safe Mode with Networking (use Apple-F8 immediately on boot to get to the boot selector menu), and (2) doing the Install Parallel's Tools at that point.

Then reboot & life was good for me :) . I also had to do this with the previous release.

Enjoy!

Feb 2, 2007, 09:29 PM #2
markintosh13 Member Join: Dec 2006 Posts: 38	Updated to 3150 from 3120. No problems so far. I continue to have network issues with wireless - msn messenger disconnects every few minutes, and ipconfig reports a new IP address quite often - is this Parallels or the Apple drivers?

Feb 3, 2007, 12:24 AM #3
Stevamundo Senior Member Join: Sep 2006 Posts: 417	Nice job! I downloaded Yahoo! messenger 8.1 in XP just to make sure that I downloaded those isight drivers right. My isight is working perfectly in 3150. Everything else I run is as smoothly as a baby's butt in 3150 so far. What's that smell? Could it be the smell of the final release of version 2.5 coming very soon???? :D

Feb 3, 2007, 09:44 AM

markintosh13
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Quote:

Originally Posted by markintosh13

Updated to 3150 from 3120. No problems so far.

I continue to have network issues with wireless - msn messenger disconnects every few minutes, and ipconfig reports a new IP address quite often - is this Parallels or the Apple drivers?

Think I've resolved it - it was windows.

Changed a few things in the network settings - turned off "register this computer in DNS", etc and I've held the same IP for the last 8 hours.

Feb 1, 2007, 10:30 PM #5
ipstacks Junior Member Join: Dec 2006 Posts: 10	Linux tools WOW I am so impressed with how parallels is making OS X and Windows like one integrated OS. Parallels has made buying a MacBook worth it in many regards. I used the transporter tool to move a copy of XP off of an older laptop. I was so impressed when I opened the VM and there was XP, just like it was on the laptop AND it had all the drivers it needed as well. It really is very cool. I don't normally comment or login to forums, but this technology has been pretty exciting to me. I hope you can do something this cool with Linux tools. I don't know how popular it is, but I know it is important to me now. The only reasons I use XP or OS X is because of some website or software requires them. The 2.6.20 kernel is suppose to have more video support, I hope that means a good selection of web cams will work with it. PLEASE:: L I N U X T O O L S WHERE ARE THE STANKIN SPANKIN LINUX TOOLS?! :-) The transporter agent thing was a bit confusing, I ended up copying the XP hard drive image into a Parallels VM with a xp.hdd file inside of it. I guess the agent on the XP laptop made the .hdd file, then I somehow did it again when I got transporter from the MacBook to see the agent on the XP laptop.

Feb 1, 2007, 10:30 PM

ipstacks
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Linux tools

WOW I am so impressed with how parallels is making OS X and Windows like one integrated OS. Parallels has made buying a MacBook worth it in many regards. I used the transporter tool to move a copy of XP off of an older laptop. I was so impressed when I opened the VM and there was XP, just like it was on the laptop AND it had all the drivers it needed as well. It really is very cool. I don't normally comment or login to forums, but this technology has been pretty exciting to me.

I hope you can do something this cool with Linux tools. I don't know how popular it is, but I know it is important to me now. The only reasons I use XP or OS X is because of some website or software requires them. The 2.6.20 kernel is suppose to have more video support, I hope that means a good selection of web cams will work with it.

PLEASE:: L I N U X T O O L S

WHERE ARE THE STANKIN SPANKIN LINUX TOOLS?! :-)

The transporter agent thing was a bit confusing, I ended up copying the XP hard drive image into a Parallels VM with a xp.hdd file inside of it. I guess the agent on the XP laptop made the .hdd file, then I somehow did it again when I got transporter from the MacBook to see the agent on the XP laptop.

Feb 1, 2007, 10:50 PM #6
Macster2 Junior Member Join: Apr 2006 Posts: 12	RC2 works great, speed increase, better graphics, but one problem.....I tried installing drivers for iSight and no matter how I try, drag and drop drivers or burn cd and install I get an error window saying "This software is not compatible with your hardware. I have a MacBook Pro, 2.0 Gig, 2 Gig RAM, !00 gig HD, Not running a Bootcamp Drive. Pleas help, need driver for iSight to use Comcast video mail.

Feb 1, 2007, 10:50 PM

Macster2
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RC2 works great, speed increase, better graphics, but one problem.....I tried installing drivers for iSight and no matter how I try, drag and drop drivers or burn cd and install I get an error window saying "This software is not compatible with your hardware. I have a MacBook Pro, 2.0 Gig, 2 Gig RAM, !00 gig HD, Not running a Bootcamp Drive. Pleas help, need driver for iSight to use Comcast video mail.

Feb 1, 2007, 10:52 PM #7
joemx Junior Member Join: Dec 2006 Posts: 17	install was smooth Just upgraded over version 3120... (or whatever the release just prior to RC1 was) Just ran the installer chose upgrade.. After which I rebooted mac osX (just for precautions), then restarted the VM (which is using my bootcamp partition windows xp sp2) and allowed it to upgrade parallel tools.. Everything seems working fine.. Tried the isight for giggles and it worked.. Joe

Feb 1, 2007, 10:52 PM

joemx
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install was smooth

Just upgraded over version 3120... (or whatever the release just prior to RC1 was)
Just ran the installer chose upgrade.. After which I rebooted mac osX (just for precautions), then restarted the VM (which is using my bootcamp partition windows xp sp2) and allowed it to upgrade parallel tools.. Everything seems working fine..

Tried the isight for giggles and it worked..

Joe

Feb 2, 2007, 09:20 AM #8
sgginc Junior Member Join: Apr 2006 Posts: 6	What did you do to try the iSight? Thanks ... Ken

Feb 2, 2007, 09:35 AM #9
jkwuc89 Member Join: Apr 2006 Posts: 47	Friendly suggestion: Can we please start new threads for each new 3150 topic? It is rather difficult to follow this one thread for every 3150 related topic. Thanks! __________________ Keith Wedinger Bearcatnews.com Sciotofootball.com

Feb 1, 2007, 11:27 PM #10
smartel Junior Member Join: Feb 2007 Posts: 5	iSight under Windows Vista Hi. I just upgraded my installation of Parallels to build 3150 to see if I could get my iMac iSight working under Windows Vista Ultimate. The iSight XP boot camp driver is installed, and everything look good in the Device Manager. However, when I try to run the "Windows Live Messenger" "Audio and video setup", selecting the "Built-in iSight", I get the following message: "Windows cannot connect to this webcam. Close any program that may be using this webcam and restart this wizard" That's on a clean install of Vista with only "Parallels Tools" and "AVG Antivirus FREE" installed. Stopping the AV didn't help. Any idea on how I could get that to work?

Feb 1, 2007, 11:27 PM

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smartel
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iSight under Windows Vista

Hi.

I just upgraded my installation of Parallels to build 3150 to see if I could get my iMac iSight working under Windows Vista Ultimate. The iSight XP boot camp driver is installed, and everything look good in the Device Manager. However, when I try to run the "Windows Live Messenger" "Audio and video setup", selecting the "Built-in iSight", I get the following message:

"Windows cannot connect to this webcam. Close any program that may be using this webcam and restart this wizard"

That's on a clean install of Vista with only "Parallels Tools" and "AVG Antivirus FREE" installed. Stopping the AV didn't help.

Any idea on how I could get that to work?

Feb 2, 2007, 02:04 AM #11
bmitchell Junior Member Join: Feb 2007 Posts: 2	Pointer Bug in Coherence Just noticed a display bug with the pointer in coherence (R2 3150). Not sure if this was there in RC1. Steps to reproduce. 1. Click and hold down the mouse on the title bar of a windows window in coherence mode. 2. Move the mouse up (drag the window), but fast. When the mouse gets over the OSX desktop before the "windows" window has caught up to where its supposed to be and thinks (i assume because of how you are handling the Win->OSX drag drop) that a drag operation is starting. The pointer switches to the osx copy pointer and stays that way (even after mouse up) until the mouse positioned outside a "non-coherence" window. Ill email this to beta@parallels.com as well. Thx

Feb 2, 2007, 02:04 AM

#11

bmitchell
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Pointer Bug in Coherence

Just noticed a display bug with the pointer in coherence (R2 3150). Not sure if this was there in RC1.

Steps to reproduce.

1. Click and hold down the mouse on the title bar of a windows window in coherence mode.
2. Move the mouse up (drag the window), but fast.

When the mouse gets over the OSX desktop before the "windows" window has caught up to where its supposed to be and thinks (i assume because of how you are handling the Win->OSX drag drop) that a drag operation is starting. The pointer switches to the osx copy pointer and stays that way (even after mouse up) until the mouse positioned outside a "non-coherence" window.

Ill email this to beta@parallels.com as well.

Thx

Feb 2, 2007, 12:07 AM

#12

pbw
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Unexpected quit

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tim Surgent

* 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.

Memory leak appears fixed but I just had Build 3150 unexpectedly quit on me (running XP). This was an issue that plagued me with Build 3120:
http://forums.parallels.com/showthre...2321#post42321

Feb 2, 2007, 12:15 AM #13
wingdo Senior Member Join: Nov 2006 Posts: 291	Thanks Parallels Team, great job. So far it's all been stable. A couple minor issues which I'll send off the the beta address, but this is really looking pretty good.

Feb 2, 2007, 01:02 AM #14
billearl Member Join: Sep 2006 Posts: 32	Please pardon my density, but what exactly does the following mean? "Windows 98 does not restart if the process is initiated within guest OS. You should manually restart it." Does this have anything to do with the fact that Windows 98 freezes on my Mac Pro when I try to restart or shutdown Windows 98? Is there a workaround? Thanx.

Feb 2, 2007, 07:29 AM #15
Liong612 Junior Member Join: Dec 2006 Posts: 15	Working great so far..

Feb 3, 2007, 05:12 AM

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Andrew @ Parallels
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Quote:

Originally Posted by billearl

Please pardon my density, but what exactly does the following mean?

"Windows 98 does not restart if the process is initiated within guest OS. You should manually restart it."

Does this have anything to do with the fact that Windows 98 freezes on my Mac Pro when I try to restart or shutdown Windows 98? Is there a workaround?

Thanx.

No - it just doesn't restart virtual machine. You should do it manually by pressing restart button on toolbar.

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Feb 3, 2007, 05:33 PM

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billearl
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Quote:

Originally Posted by Tim Surgent

Windows 98 does not restart if the process is initiated within guest OS. You should manually restart it.

Quote:

Originally Posted by billearl

Does this have anything to do with the fact that Windows 98 freezes on my Mac Pro when I try to restart or shutdown Windows 98? Is there a workaround?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Andrew @ Parallels

No - it just doesn't restart virtual machine. You should do it manually by pressing restart button on toolbar.

Okay, assuming you mean the reset button, I get it. Thanks. Hopefully this will be fixed at some point.

No problems with Win XP which I mainly use, but I like to keep Win 98 around for certain older apps.

Feb 2, 2007, 02:17 AM #18
sstickeler@yahoo.com Junior Member Join: Jul 2006 Posts: 1	Blue Screen With Logitech Quickcam My Logitech Quickcam for Notebooks Pro works great for about 20 seconds then bluescreen. Happens every time. I would love to be able to use it with MSN messenger.

Feb 3, 2007, 05:02 AM

#19

Andrew @ Parallels
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Quote:

Originally Posted by sstickeler@yahoo.com

My Logitech Quickcam for Notebooks Pro works great for about 20 seconds then bluescreen. Happens every time. I would love to be able to use it with MSN messenger.

It is known issue with latest logitech drivers from their site. It should work with older drivers which is on in package CD.

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Feb 2, 2007, 03:32 AM

#20

gnujon
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Quote:

Originally Posted by Tim Surgent

[indent] * Since RC2 it is possible to utilize Boot Camp partition installed not on the same disk as Mac OS X is.

Really??? RC1 was able to utilize the Boot Camp partition on my second hard drive without any problems. Why was it working for me?

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