Installed the demo, got exactly nowhere.

Discussion in 'Installation and Configuration of Parallels Desktop' started by sgodun, Jul 8, 2007.

  1. sgodun

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    And emailing Parallel's support team has resulted in zero responses.

    I downloaded Parallels 3.0 (4128) on my Intel Mac mini (Core Duo 1.66, 2GB RAM) which is already configured with XP Pro SP2 via Boot Camp. I installed the app, entered the registration info, and everything seemed in good order. Parallels identified the Boot Camp partition and it looked like I was ready to go.

    I clicked the green arrow to launch Windows. The dock icon turned into the hourglass which spun around a couple of times, my Windows partition disappeared from the desktop, and a few seconds later Parallels crashed. So far my experience with the demo has been limited to watching it crash about half a dozen times.

    Is there a Parallels that WORKS? Or, at least, is there a way to make the demo actually functional? Paying ~$70 for an app where the DEMO crashes is hardly a good investment.
     
  2. Eru Ithildur

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    Try repairing permissions via Disk Utility, that might fix your issue, you can also try a good cache cleaner like Onyx.

    We still use Version 2.5 in our office for stability reasons.
     
  3. w7ox

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    Parallels 3 is very stable for me .. and so was v. 2.5

    The only issue I have is with it occasionally grabbing my app files when in OS X when I have Parallels suspended, and Reset Windows Apps seems to fix that.

    The big issue for many will be the lack of an Image Tool to increase hdd size. If I had not serentipitously already upped my hdd to 30 GB I would have had to regress to 2.5 to do that.

    Parallels needs to provide an Image Tool, or similar capability, to v. 3 soon or many will have problems.

    Phil
     
  4. sgodun

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    Figured out the problem.

    I figured out the problem, and as I count this as a bug in Parallels.

    My main computer is a quad processor Power Mac G5. My Mac mini acts as a personal file and backup server -- and runs without keyboard, mouse or monitor. Whenever I need to directly access the mini I use Apple's Remote Desktop (v3) to do so.

    If I launch Parallels on the mini via Remote Desktop, it crashes 100% of the time.

    If I connect a monitor, keyboard and mouse to the mini, Parallels launches and runs without incident.

    So it seems that Parallels has a problem with either a machine that runs headless, or with being accessed via Remote Desktop.
     
  5. brkirch

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    Try going to Preferences and disabling everything under the Animation tab and see if you continue to have this problem.
     
  6. sgodun

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    Did that. Crash and burn.
     
  7. Eru Ithildur

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    No issue running headless on my XServe... So, that isn't a global issue.
     
  8. sgodun

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    Dunno what it is. Does your XServe have all of the current OS updates installed? My mini is completely up-to-date (10.4.10, etc). The only thing my mini has running at any given time is MAMP, Retrospect, and No-IP Client (and yes, I've tested Parallels without any of those running). I have no haxies running and no other major applications on it; as I mentioned, it functions only as a light-duty file and backup server.
     
  9. Eru Ithildur

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    Hmm... I don't have X.4.9 on yet... Maybe that is it.
     

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