Lagging on "installing devices"

Discussion in 'Installation and Configuration of Parallels Desktop' started by Ironham, Jun 8, 2008.

  1. Ironham

    Ironham Bit poster

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    I found other threads talking about the XP installation lagging on installing devices at 30-something minutes. I found the solution of setting the speed of something (dont remember what its called) to disabled. This didnt work. Also, i tried creating both an iso and dmg but these did not fix the problem.

    I am using a new Macbook (less than a month old) with leopard, intel.
    Parallels desktop 3
    A liscensed copy of Windows XP SP1a that came with a dell computer
     
  2. Ironham

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    Found the problem
    if anyone else has the problem, heres the answer
    (well, if you have an xp cd)
    Go to configuration, and click on the boot tab
    Set it to boot up from the CD/DVD-Rom first
    When it says "Press any key to boot from CD", press any key
    it will then copy all the windows files and restart
    when it restarts, DO NOT BOOT FROM CD
    the installation will complete itslef
     
  3. John@Parallels

    John@Parallels Forum Maven

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    Please try also to disable Enable Intel VT-x support and set acceleration level to disabled
    at Parallels Desktop -<Virtual Machine name>-Edit-Virtual Machine -Options-Advanced
     

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