Eternal Poofs Of Death™ (EPOD)
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Oct 19, 2006, 06:50 PM
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danimal39 Junior Member Join: Aug 2006 Posts: 13 |
Eternal Poofs Of Death™ (EPOD) First, I do want to say that we all appreciate the hard work the Parallels guys and gals have been putting in to the product. Our company purchased the first release of Parallels and I have personally ran just about every single public release there was. Installed Windows XP SP2 on Parallels and it ran like a champ. Wished for a little more speed and a little less memory usage, but hey, we know they're working hard on this product. Fast forward to the last beta cycle from 2.1 - 2.2. I'm running 1940 right now and it's completely unusable. I have a copy of the VM hdd file from a fresh install of XP SP2 at the ready. Why? I can't keep the program running for more than 3 minutes before it poofs into non-existance. At various times. I can't even run the recovery console from the boot CD to see if the problem is with XP or Parallels. It poofs as well even before I can type 'r' to run the console. This has destroyed every single hdd file I've had that had programs installed on it. Meaning, at this point, running Parallels is entirely counter productive because I have can't keep it running long enough to install a usable program on. It's poofed on nearly any program I try to run. All this was from copies of a fresh hdd, no Parallels Tools installed, nothing, just a fresh, clean, XP SP2 hdd that has booted only once. What gives? I've followed threads on this board to no avail, there's no way to troubleshoot this issue since there is no console log, I can't even boot into XP anymore because I don't know when it'll poof. And every time it does, XP will cease to boot to the desktop. It will, you guessed it, EPOD itself into a black hole. What's worse is that I can't even install the Parallels Tools in XP because it'll poof either half way through or before I have a chance to bring up the VM. Answers? My company is looking to purchase a site license of Parallels next year and I'm working on the forecasting. It is truly an elegant solution for our users, but I can't recommend it if I am having so many problems with it with no support to boot. I realize that support is ramping up, but this is not the first time I've posted about the EPOD. Something. Any answer (or a peep from Parallels) would help. If there's anything I can do to help, I will. I'll run test cases, document bug reports, whatever. You have a free beta tester who's had extensive software testing experience. I hate booting into Boot Camp, but at least that doesn't crash into nothingness for me. Anyone? Bueller? -- Danny |
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