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I've used both Parallels Desktop and VMware Fusion since the day that they were first released, but some time ago I settled on Fusion as the more satisfactory of the two for my purposes. However, VMware has seriously fallen down on the job with the last few versions, and indications are that...

My $.02 worth: Public betas are an exception. Most beta testing is restricted, and it's not incumbent upon a company to announce that a beta program is private.

He didn't say that "CDROM doesn't 'apperared into' [sic] windows" (whatever that means), did he? It seems to me that he said that he didn't have a Parallels CD. I was just telling him where to find the tools installer!

You don't need a CD. Instead, if you have trouble installing the tools from the Action menu, you can use the Parallels Tools installer .iso image, which can be found in /Library/Parallels/Tools (be sure to go to the Library folder on the root level of your hard drive and NOT ~/Library!) and is...

Apple should know better than to make such a ridiculous statement. LinkSys routers work perfectly well with Macs. True, LinkSys' Mac support is worse than non-existent—but generally speaking, a router is a router, and unless a particular router is very oddly and specifically configured, there...

I had a similar problem a while ago. In my case, I had made "Documents" an alias to a partition on which all of my documents are stored. This caused a problem, since the ".parallels-vm-directory" folder that is supposed to be in the ~/Documents folder was not created on the partition when...

You might find some help in this thread.

I posted my last reply before I saw this message. I'm glad it's finally working!

Don't type "~cd/Documents": type "cd ~/Documents"! And don't forget the space between "cd" and "~/Documents" and the space between "mkdir" and ".parallels-vm-directory". And the information about a documents partition is relevant only if you have one! I provided it just in case you did have a...

In relation to your response to my message: and your response to MikeBee's: In reference to my suggested solution: check again to make sure that you didn't make a typing mistake. If the "parallels-vm-directory" folder really doesn't exist, then that explains why you have a problem...

My post in this thread http://forum.parallels.com/thread10034.html may help to solve your problem.

1. Make an alias to your .pvs file and put it on your desktop. 2. Then select "Go to Folder . . ." from the Finder's "Go" menu and enter "~/Documents/.parallels-vm-directory" (without the quotes); this should open the folder in a window. (3. If you get a note that the folder cannot be...

RC2? Where?

Did you click on the CD icon at the lower right in the Parallels window and select "Disconnect"? I just did, and a DVD played with no problem on my Mac Pro. I've noticed that many users who report problems with CD/DVD drive access in OS X while Parallels (or VMWare Fusion) is running have not...

Well, it appears that 3038 was not intended to be released, because Coherence certainly doesn't work. I'm downgrading to 3036.

Thanks! But was any notice of a new build posted? If so, I didn't see it.

Build 3038?

Yes. My documents partition is called "Documents_HFS+". I typed this into the Terminal to create the .parallels-vm-directory folder: cd /Volumes/Documents_HFS+ mkdir .parallels-vm-directory I then went to this folder by selecting "Go to Folder . . ." from the Finder's "Go" menu and...

My problem was due to the fact that I have no ~/Documents folder; instead, my ~/Documents was an alias to a separate partition on which I store all of my documents. When I created a .parallels-vm-directory folder on this partition and put an alias to the .pvs file in it, the problem still...

But I'm not.