External HD and Wireless

[Seba]

hi all,
i've just received my macbook pro and i've rightly installed parallel desktop (new as well), i installed win xp sp2 and parallel tools, but when i try to connect the wireless card for win i've got a message with written "usb device you are trying to connect to the virtual machine is being used by another process. wait 5-10 mins...." and overall when i try to connect the external hard drive (lacie) i've got even 15 pop up windows always with the same message...what can i do????
thanks
Seb

 

[joem]

Ummm... Don't connect a wireless card or an external drive.

Workarounds: Shared networking. Connect the Mac to the Internet and select shared networking in VM properties, and connect in Windows as if to a LAN. The MBP has a built in wireless card, but even if you are using an external card, you have to set it up in OSX and share the connection.

External disks are not recognized by Parallels. You can put a virtual disk (.hdd file) on an external or internal disk and use it, or share the disk on the Mac and access it over the network, or use the Parallels shared folder facility.