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I'm interested to know if anything has changed since this thread was originally posted back in 2006. Is it still faster to run a VM off a virtual Parallels disk than a real (Boot Camp) partition? If so, how significant is the difference? And, does the OS in question (XP, Windows 7, Linux) affect...

Hey, it works! Nice. But...any idea why drop shadows don't work on windows, and how to get those working?

Thanks for the help. I changed /usr/lib/mesa to /usr/lib in /etc/ld.so.conf/GL.conf and am now able to enable visual effects...mostly. Transparency works, wacky window drag effects work, but I don't get any drop shadows. Any thoughts?

Just installed Ubuntu 10.04 in a Parallels 5 VM. It works well overall, but when I try to enable Visual Effects (and after it does a search for drivers) I get the error, "Desktop effects could not be enabled." I'm guessing this is an issue with the Parallels display driver? Is there another...

Is a Windows 7 VM going to be significantly slower than a Windows XP one?

Is there a performance difference between running Windows (XP, Vista, or 7) off a Boot Camp partition vs. doing so from a regular Parallels virtual disk? If so, which is faster? Thanks!

I was really excited when I upgraded to Parallels 4 a few months ago because my VM was snappy and my CPU usage low. Unfortunately, that's just not true consistently, or even usually. Here's what I'm seeing: - If I suspend and then resume my VM, the visible resume process is relatively quick...

I switched from VMWare back to Parallels with v4 because it seemed fast and was easy on the Mac's processor. For the first week or so that was true, but now it's really not. When I resume a suspended XP VM, it doesn't take long - maybe 45 seconds. Then the VM is completely unresponsive for...

Works fine for me with a Vista Ultimate Boot Camp partition, Parallels 3 and Fusion b4. I can't suspend or hibernate from Parallels, but I'm assuming that's just a limitation of the software.

Really? I've actually found Aero to be pretty pleasant to work with, and somehow it makes the OS feel snappier. Flip3D is also useful - I prefer Expose but still... If nothing else, Aero feels like a modern OS whereas Vista's Basic theme reminds me of SUSE Linux a few generations ago. The...

I don't think this is officially supported, but the current beta of VMWare Fusion will run off a Vista Boot Camp partition. You have to change a config file to get networking working, but at least on my machine it seems to work well...and doesn't seem to lock up the UI during startup the way my...

This is certainly doable on the Mac (which ships with samba), though it can be a performance problem in some cases. But the biggest issue I've had with using host SMB shares is the situation in which the host machine doesn't have an Internet connection. When that happens, the guest OS also...

Can a Parallels VM mount a FAT partition on my drive and use it (via some other mechanism than Shared Folders, which is a little flaky)? (And, while I'm at it, can the same thing be done with an HFS partition if the VM has MacDrive installed?)

Thanks. Dunno if I want to go the flash drive route - somewhat of a pain with a laptop - but it's good to hear that installing on FAT might be OK security-wise. As to the other question: Boot Camp is cranky about nonstandard partition setups. Is there a way to set up Boot Camp with a...

I'm having some real trouble setting up a good way to share files between my Parallels VMs and my Mac. I don't want them stored on virtual disks because it's a pain for backup and synchronization. Some Windows apps have issues with the Shared Folders, so that's out. The only other good option...

Hmm...I tried that with Tools : Map Network Drive and I end up getting a "Disconnected Network Drive" that won't mount. Is there another mounting mechanism I should be using?

Is there a way to change where Parallels Shared Folders mount in the filesystem? I'm working in the new Microsoft Expression Blend, and it won't let me save files to a path with a period in it, so anything beginning \\.PSF isn't an option. Using shortcuts doesn't work as a workaround. Thanks.

OK, I was able to download the Windows version of Parallels Transporter and convert the Microsoft VPC image into a Parallels one. Problem is, the converted image is recognized by Windows as a hardware change, prompting Windows reactivation. And since there is no product key for this test image...

That sounds doable but difficult. More importantly, it's a task that Parallels Transporter is supposedly designed to automate...only I can't see how...

I can't figure out how to run Parallels Transporter. The docs say something about downloading and installing it on Windows (though it's not clear if that can be a virtual machine), but I don't know where to download from, or indeed why there's the Mac version if everything has to happen in Windows.