Moved OS to new HD

Discussion in 'Installation and Configuration of Parallels Desktop' started by fishey72, Dec 4, 2008.

  1. fishey72

    fishey72 Bit poster

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    I copied/cloned everything to a new HD, now I get this:

    Parallels Desktop failed to allocate the specified amount of memory.
    Please restart Parallels Desktop and try again.
    To avoid this problem in the future choose from the menu: Parallels Desktop > Preferences. On the Memory tab select the "Enable virtual memory preallocation" option.


    What do I need to do to fix this? Parallels VM used to run perfect.

    MacPro
    250 gb drive original
    250 gb drive bootcamp windows
    640gb drive new cloned now running OSX
    8gb RAM
    10.5.5
    PD has 2048mb ram allocated
    Parallels 3
     
    Last edited: Dec 5, 2008
  2. fishey72

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    I tried a reinstall, that got me nowhere.

    Help, anyone?
     
  3. modronmarch

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    A quick question - is it Parallels Desktop 3 or 4? If the former is the case please go to Parallels Desktop => Preferences, open the memory tab and either set memory allocation to Automatic or make sure you have allocated enough memory (more than you have set in Virtual Machine configuration editor) if you prefer the Manual mode. For both versions you may try reducing the amount of memory allocate dto the VM and see if this helps.
     
  4. fishey72

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    Yeah I had tried that with no change.

    Now after a LOT of searching around this forum I have tried a bunch of things and now have removed the Virtual Machines. So now I have nothing and it looks like I have to reinstall and start from scratch.
     
  5. John@Parallels

    John@Parallels Forum Maven

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    I suppose permissions repair and reinstalling Parallels Desktop is always solution such situation
     
  6. epirali

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    Question: what machine are you running 8 GB of RAM in?
     
  7. John@Parallels

    John@Parallels Forum Maven

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    8gb of ram is on Mac Pro itself, VM has 2 GB
     

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