Is there a Dept. of Annoying Bugs? :)

Jun 11, 2007, 11:31 PM #1
simplicity Member Join: Jul 2006 Posts: 93	Is there a Dept. of Annoying Bugs? :) Running Build 4128: Guest OS Vista Put Guest OS (Vista) to sleep from inside the guest. I recommend "Sleep" from the Vista shutdown sub menu. Wait for Vista to sleep. Click on an OSX window (say like Safari) Notice annoying Parallels popup asking me if I want to restart VM. The popup does not happen if on secondary monitor. The popup does not happen if I put Guest to sleep from Parallels Action Menu. Go Fix :) Some background: Since Parallels seems to consume quite a few CPU cycles when idle, I was writing a little utility to pause the VM shortly after I closed all my (foreground) Windows apps. Might be a nice option to add to the Parallels tools....

Jun 11, 2007, 11:31 PM

simplicity
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Is there a Dept. of Annoying Bugs? :)

Running Build 4128: Guest OS Vista

Put Guest OS (Vista) to sleep from inside the guest. I recommend "Sleep" from the Vista shutdown sub menu.

Wait for Vista to sleep.

Click on an OSX window (say like Safari)

Notice annoying Parallels popup asking me if I want to restart VM.

The popup does not happen if on secondary monitor.

The popup does not happen if I put Guest to sleep from Parallels Action Menu.

Go Fix :)

Some background: Since Parallels seems to consume quite a few CPU cycles when idle, I was writing a little utility to pause the VM shortly after I closed all my (foreground) Windows apps. Might be a nice option to add to the Parallels tools....

Jun 12, 2007, 12:07 AM #2
simplicity Member Join: Jul 2006 Posts: 93	Next Annoying Bug - SmartSelect Integration Repro with Office Outlook 2007 Take a Message from Outlook, save it to some place you can access from your Mac. Go to Finder, click on message - select open with and choose Outlook. Invalid Command Args error message. Seems SmartSelect isn't as integrated as one would think. Maybe I should sign up for your beta program and help you all out.

Jun 13, 2007, 10:33 AM #3
simplicity Member Join: Jul 2006 Posts: 93	MSI Installation Failure Take a random MSI (I used the .Net 2.0 Compact Framework SP2 from MSDN) and put it on the Mac side. Try running this MSI in windows \\.PSF\.Home\PathToMSI. MSI may start but will fail when it tries to copy files. Windows may report that MSI doesn't exist any longer. Mount \\.PSF to a drive letter like H: Try again. Everything works. Go fix. :D

Jun 13, 2007, 10:36 AM #4
simplicity Member Join: Jul 2006 Posts: 93	Unable to execute .Net apps located on \\.PSF Place a .Net application on \\.PSF share. Try to execute. If .Net apps do anything like p/Invoke or any other functions that require security, application will fail. Map \\.PSF\Whatever to H: Try to execute. Same Problem. Unable to grant permissions to hidden .PSF server. Go fix :D

Jun 13, 2007, 10:40 AM #5
STim Parallels Team Join: Mar 2006 Posts: 831	Please keep'em coming :) __________________ Best regards, Tim

Jun 13, 2007, 10:50 AM #6
simplicity Member Join: Jul 2006 Posts: 93	More Office 2007 Integration problems Sent myself a meeting request as an attachment. Opened .ICS file in Mail.app which tried to launch Outlook 2007 (which is how I have it configured.) Received same Invalid command line args error message. Each item of a different type needs a different command line switch. (Simply doing OUTLOOK.EXE with the path of the file will not work) My guess is that for Office, SmartSelect will have to create a stub app for each item type (Mail, Calendar, Contact, etc.) For your review: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ou...031101033.aspx

Jun 13, 2007, 10:50 AM

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More Office 2007 Integration problems

Sent myself a meeting request as an attachment. Opened .ICS file in Mail.app which tried to launch Outlook 2007 (which is how I have it configured.) Received same Invalid command line args error message.

Each item of a different type needs a different command line switch. (Simply doing OUTLOOK.EXE with the path of the file will not work) My guess is that for Office, SmartSelect will have to create a stub app for each item type (Mail, Calendar, Contact, etc.)

For your review:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ou...031101033.aspx

Jun 14, 2007, 11:21 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by simplicity

Take a random MSI (I used the .Net 2.0 Compact Framework SP2 from MSDN) and put it on the Mac side.

Try running this MSI in windows \\.PSF\.Home\PathToMSI.

MSI may start but will fail when it tries to copy files. Windows may report that MSI doesn't exist any longer.

Mount \\.PSF to a drive letter like H:

Try again. Everything works.

Go fix. :D

Not sure if this is a Parallels problem per-se, though Parallels is what creates the .PSF "host" in the first place. My gut feeling is that Windows Installer barfs on the non-standard network "hostname".

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Jun 14, 2007, 11:32 AM #8
simplicity Member Join: Jul 2006 Posts: 93	It could be that windows is "barfing" on the non standard host name, but if Parallels is doing something different than everyone else, it might be up to Parallels to fix it... Unless parallels can prove that they are following the SMB spec perfectly, MS might just say sorry, not our problem. For them to prove it, they will most likely need to repro on a Windows box acting as a file server and a Windows box won't let you name it like that... My idea would be have a config setting in the .pvs file to let power users change the psf server name. Then only people that care about it will do it. I noticed in the HOSTS file there is an entry for .psf. I tried adding another one but to no avail.

Jun 14, 2007, 11:32 AM

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It could be that windows is "barfing" on the non standard host name, but if Parallels is doing something different than everyone else, it might be up to Parallels to fix it... Unless parallels can prove that they are following the SMB spec perfectly, MS might just say sorry, not our problem. For them to prove it, they will most likely need to repro on a Windows box acting as a file server and a Windows box won't let you name it like that...

My idea would be have a config setting in the .pvs file to let power users change the psf server name. Then only people that care about it will do it.

I noticed in the HOSTS file there is an entry for .psf. I tried adding another one but to no avail.

Jun 17, 2007, 09:48 PM #9
simplicity Member Join: Jul 2006 Posts: 93	Dangerous Bug with Snapshots Repro: 1) Configure Guest OS to handle say a mail link. 2) Delete a snapshot - (for me this operation takes several minutes.) 3) While snapshot is being deleted, try selecting a mail link in Host OS At this point, Parallels will try to start the guest which is in the middle of a delete procedure. For me, the whole thing crashed, parallels, snapshot manager all disappeared.

Jun 17, 2007, 09:48 PM

simplicity
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Dangerous Bug with Snapshots

Repro:

1) Configure Guest OS to handle say a mail link.
2) Delete a snapshot - (for me this operation takes several minutes.)
3) While snapshot is being deleted, try selecting a mail link in Host OS

At this point, Parallels will try to start the guest which is in the middle of a delete procedure. For me, the whole thing crashed, parallels, snapshot manager all disappeared.

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