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I have disabled checking for updates in preferences, but PD still wants to connect to parallels.com on port 80 on each startup. this behavior existed in V4 and exists in V5. I have not authorized PD to connect to the Internet anywhere (although VMs can and do) and I don't want it to attempt a...

This may be just a philosophical point, but other than the industry standard "virus test file", how can you determine that a Mac antivirus program works well? (Other than testing with some Windows viruses). There are no Mac viruses in the wild to protect against, so anything, including...

I'll take an educated guess, that when you uninstalled tools and reinstalled, a registry entry was left over that tries to load that file on startup. Download the Autoruns utility from SysInternals (http://download.sysinternals.com/Files/Autoruns.zip), run it in Windows and find the entry that's...

I had a similar problem after upgrading to 4560. Win2k would start, log in, run for less than a minute, and Parallels would exit leaving the windows icon in the dock, but with the app itself no longer appearing in activity monitor. This happened several times, but it seems to be working at the...

Shared networking is unlikely to help. What did you try to download the code, and what was the result? My backup philosophy is to back up whenever I've done enough work that I don't want to have to do it again. You can just copy the whole VM directory to an external disk using the Finder...

If you are on a Mac, your virtual machine is on your hard disk in ~/library/parallels where ~ stands for the root of your user area in /users. There will be a directory in the indicated Parallels folder for each VM. In that folder will be one or more files with the extension .hdd, and a .pvs...

You haven't provided enough information for a useful reply. What is your host OS? Does your external disk work in your host OS? Are you trying to access the raw disk (probably won't work) or access it via the host? What is the format of the external disk? How is it connected to the...

Is the .hdd file in the location it's asking about? If not, and you can find the file, you can either move it, or change the location where it's being looked for. If there is no .hdd file on your disk, the virtual hard disk is missing, and you will have to start over. I haven't seen Parallels...

If your external drive is firewire, put OSX on it, boot from it, and create away. Then reboot from your internal drive and enjoy your VM.

I haven't tried this, but if I were faced with the problem, I'd use bridged networking to effectively make the Mac and VM two machines on the local network, then share the XP VPN connection on the local network if possible. Once the XP connection is shared, the Mac could use the XP IP address as...

To add a login item in the account preference pane, click the plus sign at the bottom, and choose the app to start.

The Parallels application itself MUST be installed on the startup drive. The virtual machines can be installed on any connected drive. The VM is just a set of Mac OSX files.

I don't understand why this is such a big deal. Just plug in an external disk, and copy your VM using the Finder. Presto, snapshot. To restore, copy it back. If you have room on the internal disk, copy it there for backup and no external is needed. I just use the Finder's duplicate...

You might want to upgrade to 3188.

You're really not giving us much to go on. Assuming you have Parallels tools installed (the version that came with the Parallels version you have installed) and are using shared networking, and it still doesn't work, there are still many possibilities, so give us lots of detail including...

It sounds as if the /library/parallels folder permissions got scrambled. I'd uninstall Parallels, delete the /library/parallels folder, reboot, empty the trash, reinstall Parallels, reboot the Mac, and try again. When you start the app, it will ask for the key and should have no problem...

Oh my, look at all those windows. I can confirm it happens on my MBP. Wonder why they do that.

Put the VM in /users/shared, and adjust the permissions so both users can read and write. You will have to modify the virtual disk location in the .pvs file as well. Just double click it, and make the change in the Parallels console. NEVER put anything in /library/<anything> unless you are...

I don't have any problems, but I don't use coherence. I think it's a bad idea, and I suspect that many of the problems people complain about here would go away if they hadn't bothered with it. It's nothing but appearance anyway, and it's buggy (apparently) so why bother. Just turn it off and...

http://www5e.biglobe.ne.jp/~arcana/index.en.html to control the volume of the startup sound. Enjoy.