Chinh Nguyen
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It's much faster when guesting Windows. I had severe performance issues on my 8-core Mac Pro and Parallels 4 running Windows XP. It was borderline unusable especially with Visual Studio. Using the exact same XP and Vista VMs with Parallels 5, it feels snappier. Guesting Windows 7 works fine too. Of course now I can finally guest Leopard and Snow Leopard (Parallels 4 would always crash).
Here are some bugs though:
When guesting both Mac OS X Server 10.5 and 10.6, the bottom of the window tells me to install Parallels Tools even though I already have.
In Windows 7, I once lost Aero. I don't know how but when I tried to restore it from the appearance settings, it said something along the lines of it not being available or something disabling it. I had to reboot for it to come back.
In Mac OS X Server 10.5 (not sure yet if this is an issue with 10.6 because I haven't used it much), it often takes several attempts to enter my password to login. I know I'm typing it right because I don't have any issues anywhere else. Sometimes it takes a couple of tries... just now it took 4 tries. Also, even when the main VM window has the keyboard focus and the user name edit field has the keyboard focus, I still have to click on the edit field before keyboard presses are registered when logging in.
How do I get rid of the Shared Folder folder when guesting Mac OS X Server? I have Isolate Mac from Mac OS X checked yet the Shared Folder folder still appears after I reboot. I have to manually eject it to get rid of it each time.
I still can't install Parallels Tools in Fedora 11 (I use it to test my app against the shared libraries that Fedora 11 ships with.). No issues with Ubuntu.
PS, I'm a developer which is why I guest so many different platforms.
Here are some bugs though:
When guesting both Mac OS X Server 10.5 and 10.6, the bottom of the window tells me to install Parallels Tools even though I already have.
In Windows 7, I once lost Aero. I don't know how but when I tried to restore it from the appearance settings, it said something along the lines of it not being available or something disabling it. I had to reboot for it to come back.
In Mac OS X Server 10.5 (not sure yet if this is an issue with 10.6 because I haven't used it much), it often takes several attempts to enter my password to login. I know I'm typing it right because I don't have any issues anywhere else. Sometimes it takes a couple of tries... just now it took 4 tries. Also, even when the main VM window has the keyboard focus and the user name edit field has the keyboard focus, I still have to click on the edit field before keyboard presses are registered when logging in.
How do I get rid of the Shared Folder folder when guesting Mac OS X Server? I have Isolate Mac from Mac OS X checked yet the Shared Folder folder still appears after I reboot. I have to manually eject it to get rid of it each time.
I still can't install Parallels Tools in Fedora 11 (I use it to test my app against the shared libraries that Fedora 11 ships with.). No issues with Ubuntu.
PS, I'm a developer which is why I guest so many different platforms.
