10.5.6 and Parallels 3.0

!0.5.6 success with 5608

rbh said:
Hi Old Marine :)

That was the sum total of my bad experiences. That was on a 17" MBP that had been "upgraded" in-situ from 10.4.11 to 10.5.4, then 10.5.5, then 10.5.6 (all combo updaters).

I tried it on a MacBook that shipped with 10.5.2 that is also on 10.5.6 - and the problem with the dialogue did not appear. I can only assume it is some quirk or remnant of the Tiger -> Leopard upgrade, that the latest update dragged into the light.

I'm VERY happy with v3.0 of Parallels in general (now running build 5626) and do not have any reason to jump to v4.0, as I mainly need Windows for work for Outlook/Exchange access, a bit of Visio, and some Intranet sites that drip with ActiveX code (bleh!)...

I hope that gives you some encouragement!

Happy New Year!
R
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RBH,

Finally had some spare time and took the plunge with upgrading to OSX 10.5.6 with build 5608. No problems at all. Next step is to update to PD 5626 which seems to be relatively stable and a straightforward update.

Thanks for your feedback
 
Upgraded to 5626 successfully yesterday. Only issue I ran into was a previously reported problem downloading the DMG via the upgrade method. After telling me that it had competed downloading the upgrade, the disk would not mount to the desktop. Downloaded the update from the web site and that mounted and ran fine.

So far no issues with 10.5.6 and 5626
 
When trying to update from PD3 to PD4 on the alu brick late 2008 running 10.5.6 (upgrade done using the combo updater) either with or without the 30" Apple display attached, I end up with exactly the same problem as before on the 17" MBP.

I am underwhelmed, but maybe the nice Parallels staff (whose ticket I have reopened) will help.
 
If I do this will I loose the files that were on the desktop of the VM?
I was running P3 in Tiger then upgraded to Leopard. Now the application unexpectedly quits when I try to start it. I am concerned about uninstalling because of important files on the VM desktop.
Is there anyway of viewing/accessing the files on the VM in the finder? to back up before reinstalling
Thanks
 
Installs and uninstalls of PDM don't alter or delete VMs, you can always copy the VMs to another place and you can use Parallels Explorer to access the VMs files and copy them.
 
I don't understand. I can copy the VMs to another place? how do I do this? and how do I use Parallels Explorer to access them? I can't even open Parallels right now.
Sorry for being so naive - new to all this.
 
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