It's not DHCP thats broken, it is Bridged that is broken
Build 5600 is broken with respect to Bridged Networking.
I thought I would be smart and force DHCP off and instead assign the specific IP address I want it to use. Nada, what I want doesn't matter, Parallels network adapter still steals the host IP address. Thats just stupid! Eventually, I tried telling bridge network to use a specific interface instead of default. That seemed to resolve my problems. Now the Vm uses the IP I set in the network properties. (thankyou very much)
I'm not prone to bash a vendor as I work in the Software Industry and know how difficult it is to ship quality software, but some things are basic tests and should be either automated regression suites or you have a friken large QA workforce of monkeys running through a manual check list.
I'll just add that I have submitted a few incident reports in the past via the email interface where by you get a incident number and nice reply on the webpage that a support engineer will get back to you/reply/resolve in 3 days. I guess a *ignore* on all of them is the standard 3 day response.
To Parallels Management, get with the program. You advertise a million users (http://www.parallels.com/en/products/desktop/) and if that is true, I can't believe you haven't gotten more heated complaints already.
Last edited: May 10, 2008