Incredible slow startup / shutdown

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mattsb

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Hi!

I have tried both upgrading, and then a complete reinstall, but nothing fixes my problem. I have converted my old virtual machines from v3 to v4, in order to try the new version. But when i click on start, it stalls for like 4 minutes before anyting happens, and then the machines starts up slowly. The same thing when quitting. When XP is shutting down, it's taking forever before the machine is completely shut. I see the same thing when suspending it.

I have also installed the same version on a new imac (which didn't have parallels before), and it runs smoothly with that boot camp partition there. I have also copied my xp virtual machine that was converted from v3 to the other computer with newly installed parallels, and it runs perfectly smooth there.

This leads me to think that there is something in my system that is interfering with parallels v4, that is left behind from v3. Even though i uninstalled v3, rebooted, and then installed v4 again, it is the same result as before - poor.

I am running the latest build 3540, on a VM with xp sp3, 1gb, 1 core.

// Matts
 
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"I upgraded to Parallels 4.0 last night, and now my XP boot time take minutes. I've turned off SmartMount, Shared Folder, etc"

Started by turning that off already.
 
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More Symptoms

A little more on the slowness of my 4.x upgrade.

When I boot XP, prl_vm_app spikes both CPUs to 100%, which I assume is the cause if the long boot times.
Windows event log shows no errors, and the Device Manager shows no problems with any of the devices.

If I hit F8 when XP starts to boot to get to the Advanced Options Menu, prl_vm_app spikes ONE of my cpus to 100%. That seems broken, even before XP starts to load.

If I choose Safe mode, as soon as agp440.sys loads, both host CPUs jump to 100%.
 
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Submitted. Although, In firefox 2, the description box on the ticket form was all the way at the bottom of the page, and when it previewed the ticket, now description was shown.
 
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Description broken in Ticket Form

This is what I got when I tried to submit a ticket. The preview screen also didn't show an description field. Not sure if anything made it into RT.
 

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Hello Claco,

We are aware of the issue with sumbitting a ticket and currently are working on it. It will be fixed soon. As a workaround now you can submit a ticket without description, and then reply to the automatic e-mail message you will get with addition information.
 
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Me too, for the record …

I upgraded to the latest build (v4 3810) today and I, too, am still having problems with the smart mount feature. I have aliases to frequently-used servers on my Mac desktop, and when I booted up the latest version, Parallels once again tried to mount all these drives on the Mac desktop (despite some being unavailable), and despite smart mount being turned OFF.

I'm using a fully-patched Tiger (v 10.4.11) on an iMac Core 2 Duo 2.16Ghz, 2Gb RAM, and over 150Gb free hard drive space. I upgraded from the latest build of version 3 (build 5626).
 
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yesterdays upgrade has also slowed my windows machine badly.

it was running great and now is dog slow.

my mac is a mac book pro 2.2 with 4 gig of ram.

is there anyway of rolling back? this has completely ruined a days work for me and I am not happy at the QA of this.
 
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claco, please try the following:

1. go to the Configure -> Hardware -> CPU
enable "Show advanced settings"

2. Add the "kernel.real_mode_vtx=0" system flag (without quotes)
 
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