ptomblin, this problem arose when mac upgraded the OS to version 10.4.10 about a year ago. Prior to that, a Garmin 296 would happily talk to Windows XP through Parallels. If you take a search, you will find a few comments; I tend to major! On 31 October last year, Xenos, one of the Parallels team posted:
They then appeared to come up with a fix (http://kb.parallels.com/en/5053) which had a specific build for users where the USB used to connect before build 5580. The fix doesn't work. It seems to me that there is little/no interest in solving the issue. Pity really as the only reason I purchased Parallels and Windows for one specific application I needed to run with a Garmin 296/496.
So Parallels, over to you guys. This one has been dragging on a while and your sales pitch says "Fast USB Support
'Plug and play' your favorite Windows-only 2.0 USB devices". My Garmin 296 is still my favourite plug and play USB device and your software used to support it. Should we still hang around or should we just try another VM?
Last edited: Jul 20, 2008