Hi there, I just installed build 1884 on my Mac Pro (2.66GHz, 2GB). Not an upgrade, this is the first version of Parallels I've installed. I setup the initial VM so that I could install WinXP Pro SP2 on it. For now, I haven't added anything like sound, network, shared folders, and such to the VM settings. I just setup a growable hard drive (30GB), left default 256MB RAM, added a couple of screen resolutions, just the basics. I have tried adding a CDROM device as both the real optical drive of the Mac Pro, as well as adding a CDROM device using an ISO image I have for my WinXP install. Both the ISO image as well as the real CD I have work, I used them to install WinXP on this machine under Boot Camp. The problem is that in both cases, when I boot the VM, it never detects the CD, because it gives me that standard error message saying there is no bootable device in the system. I did change the boot order to make the CDROM device first. Hopefully my problem is something simple, as I am new to Parallels, but I can't see to figure out how to get it to detect the CD, whether I use the real CD in the drive, or the ISO. Please help... thanks in advance!
With your VM running, click on the CD icon in the lower right corner of the Parallels window and select "Connect." Your CD should now be available to Windows. If you want to eject the CD, be sure to click on the icon and select "Disconnect"—else you won't be able to eject the CD from the Mac OS while Parallels is running.
very dissapointed Bought twop copies for my Department to riun on our two new Mac Pro quad 2.66 dual cores. Keep getting a commucating with hypervisor probelm. Very dissapointed. When asked to recommend this to another department at this university, I would not at this stage. This is after having to discover for myself the notation of not working on mac pro. Despite dl'ing the update, it still does not run, though no kernal panic is a nice touch. I'd invite Parallels to email me, or call me and tell what is wrong with their software, and when I can expect it to work.
Thanks, this doesn't seem to work either. In my settings, I had the CDROM device set to automatically connect. But, I also tried disconnecting and reconnecting by clicking the icon and it still does not recognize either the CD or the ISO.
Wish I knew that before. I was just coming out here to post the odd "can't eject CD from OS X while Parallels is running" non-problem.
Bump, bump, and bump. I still have the exact same problem as described in the original post. I really wanted to try out Parallels as I have some fun plans on how I'm going to use it. I don't really get warm fuzzies about shelling out the money to buy it, considering my trial period is about to expire and I have yet to be able to install my own OS due to this problem. I'm sure I could use one of the pre-canned, free OS things, but that really doesn't encompass my plans. Please let me know if you have any suggestions on how to solve my (hopefully dumb) problem above.
Thanks very much for the reply. As I currently have 2GB of memory, it shouldn't impact me that much, although I will load it when it comes out as a "regular" release. In the meantime, I was able to solve my own issue by doing more careful reading in the help screens. When I added the CD/DVD device to the VM settings, the default Connect to: setting was IDE 1:0. I changed it to IDE 0:1 based on something in the online help, and it worked like a champ. I knew it would be something simple and stupid, but unfortunately it was something that was not obvious, and defaulted to a value which does not make sense to me, given the limitation it presents.
