Need USB 2.0!

When will we get USB 2.0 support in Parallels?

I've had nothing but problems with USB 1.1 in Parallels. I try to use an external USB hard drive for WinXP backups and it continually locks up WinXP and Parallels. I usually have to just shutoff Parallels and I'm worried that one day, it won't reboot.

This has really turned out to be a sore point for me because go back to USB 1.1 is NOT a good option with all the USB 2.0 devices out there. Some, such as camera, may not be backwards compatible.

 

Maybe you want to use the same technique I use to back up my XP session. I simply backup the directory where my parallel sessions are located.

 

I've done this, but it takes 20 minutes to backup my 18 gig VM files. If I only backed up the files that changes, it might take a minute or two. Perhaps if I did incremental backups, it would be faster, but if I had USB 2.0 support, I would be able to see my backup files instead of just the VM file.

 

Why don't you just buy a windows PC??

 

Look up rsync, it works very well as an alternative if you want to do incrementals

 

You coud set your Documents folder on a Shared Folder with Mac OS and only keep your system and program files on the VM image. That would alleviate some of the bulk.

Before I went Mac I did that with Windows. I kept all my documents on a seperate partition. That way if anything ever happened to the Windows disk, my documents were safe and I made an image of the Windows partition with all programs installed. If anything every went wrong (viruses, or disk error, etc...) I could bypass all the re-install time by just restoring the image. And no need to move my documents since they were safe in their locale already.

Just point your My Documents folder to a Shared Folder on Mac OS. Of course, if you're using a Bootcamp partition, that won't work, unless you never use Bootcamp natively thence forth.

 

For the interim, things will go faster if you do a samba mount on your USB drive and then access it as a networked drive from XP.

Not optimal, I know, but it will get you by until 2.0 support comes out.

rickb