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    Agonizingly slow startups.

    Answers to questions Could you please clarify following: 1. What do you consider slow startup - in sec? I have seen >600 seconds or ten minutes. 2. What kind if VM you are using Boot Camp, or on virtual hdd? Not using Boot Camp. Using Virtual HDD 3. Is there antivirus on Mac OS...
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    Agonizingly slow startups.

    Now I've got to be fair. I had killed WindowServer remotely and logged back in to my machine. Then when I clicked the Dock icon, Parallels was up and running in an instant - unbelievable. So that makes it an intermittent problem but still very serious.
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    Agonizingly slow startups.

    Agonizingly slow startups - me too I too have had this experience many times on my MacPro 3 GHz quad 4 Gb RAM (not short of power I'd say). Today I launched Parallels, my machine became unusable, I went away for a few minutes in the hope it would settle down and returned to static screen saver...
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    Possible to create Boot Camp partition from Parallels?

    Boot Camp from Parallels image? I would be very interested in a solution to this problem. I use a customised installer for Windows XP which is preconfigured with all my University settings. It will NOT install directly into Boot Camp but it does install into Parallels. I have not been able to...
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    Very slow copy from real CD and .iso image

    An install of XP from a single CD took 18 hours on MacBook Pro 2.16GHz 2Gb RAM! Repeating the process using the .iso image that was used to generate the real CD showed the same behaviour. I used the default settings in PD and chose XP as the OS. The CD image is a standard ISO, bootable via...
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