MASSIVE decrease in performance after upgrading to 3.0

Sick of Parallels

I've tried every combination of install, uninstalls I can think of. This is driving me to go buy a copy of VMware. It's very clearly an issue with Parallels Tools.

Jason
 
I agree with you

dschmidt said:
Hello-

I was running Parallels 2.5 very nicely, and recently upgraded to 3.0, and I'm suffering from a massive decrease in performances. Has this happened to anyone else? Are there any changes I could make? I've already tried adding more RAM and Video RAM to the VM, but this didn't seem to help.

15" Macbook Pro, 2.33 Ghz, 2GB RAM
OS X 10.5.1

Upgraded from Parallels 2.5 to 3.0 build 5582

Help!

Thanks,
Dave
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The same thing happened to me. I don't like 3.0, I never liked 3.0. That's why I'm a proud customer of VMware Fusion now, thank you very much.

Although Parallels 2.5 WAS a good product, I agree.
 
Same Problem

I've just upgraded to version 3.0, build 5584 and my system is very slow also. I'm using an iMac w/2GB ram. When I uninstall the tools, the VM is usable. When their installed, it's not. My tools version is build 5584 [27.12.2007].

I've uninstalled and reinstalled the tools multiple times with no change.

Is there a newer version of the tools?
 
MattBaker said:
My MacBook has gotten better over the last couple of days. Here are the changes I've made:

1) Set the VM to 512 MB.
2) Upgraded from 2 GB of physical RAM to 4 GB.
3) Shut down Firefox.

I know Firefox has been hanging at random times ever since I switched to Leopard. On the off chance that Firefox's misbehavior is somehow interfering with the VM, I just stopped using it.
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Verions count

which Firefox ?

on Mac OS 10.4.11 I stickwith Firefox 1.5.0.10

because 2.0. hung often

SeaMonkey is also becoming interesting with the html
wysiwyg composer

I am waitng for Leopard and Vista to mature
and won't get them before I get a new machine

Hugh W
 
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