Still does
not work for me either. Spent at least 4 hours on this (normally bill $175/hour to my clients).
PROBLEM:
Launching Parallels Desktop gets a dialog box (below) with only an option to quit. Never able to do anything more.
See comments after picture describing what I've done thus far...
ACTIONS:
0. Upgraded from 3.0 (which worked fairly well) to 4.0 build 3540 on my
MacBookPro (Intel Core Duo 2.16GHz 2Gb 120Gb HD) running Leopard 10.5.5 (latest updates).
1. Called support - got foreign sounding answer with really bad communication skills. Tried to tell me to perform some really dangerous commands in the Terminal (e.g. sudo rm -fr /Library/long_path_name). I did try this after carefully examining the commands.
No success.
2. E-mailed support - suggested I turn off firewall (also a dangerous thing to do considering how dangerous the Internet is). I did try this with
no success.
3. Also got a reply to launch a daemon under 'sudo' (dangerous). I did this with
no success.
4. Completely uninstalled. Reinstalled 3.0 (works fine). Upgrade installed 4.0 (installs OK). Still have issue (see below).
No success.
5. Checked /etc/hosts (it is valid). Nothing found.
6. Read this forum and others. Posted help request on MacFixit. Posted comment on VersionTracker. Will give good ratings once problems are fixed.
PERSONAL BACKGROUND: BSEE/BACS. Programmer since 1973. Used UNIX since 1975. Performed System Administration on Sun Solaris, HPUX and RedHat Linux. I've used Macintosh since 1984. Hardware designer since 1980 (phones, fault tolerant computers, graphics engines, cryptography, etc). Author, teacher, speaker, CTO.
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