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I am new to MAC but have many years PC experience

I have installed Parallels and have multiple users on the machine.

I have been through all the issues detailed by other users and seem to have solved them via this forum share folders etc.

But now I have this message:

Parallels Desktop failed to allocate the specified amount of memory.
Please restart Parallels Desktop and try again.
To avoid this problem in the future choose from the menu: Parallels Desktop > Preferences. On the Memory tab select the "Enable virtual memory preallocation" option.

I spite of enabling virtual memory the error message continues to re-appear.

Yes I have re-booted.

Any assistance much appreciated
 
Tell us a little bit about your Apple, for instance, how much RAM does it have?

Did you run some good system maintenence program, such as Onyx?

And thank you for trying the re-boot first!
 
macBook Pro 15/2.4/2GB/160GB

The machine shouldn't need maintenence it is brand new.

It was supplied with Tiger although I want to upgrade to Leopard to run bootcamp

ie. Parallels for lightweight work and Bootcamp for heavy 3d Cad programs.

Is this helpful?

Cheers
 
Further to my previous post. I have installed Leopard and now the VM does not work at all just this message "The application Parallels quit unexpectedly"
 
Yes, what you had is helpful.

One issue I see, running Leopard. Leopard is still a new release and it has some bugs with Parallels.

I would still run maintnence, if you can roll-back to Tiger, sometimes the post-setup leaves things needing some clean-up.
 
The simple answer is No.

I guess the question is what do I do now?

I want to install boot camp and run Parallels.

Ideally I will be able to see all files in any mode boot camp, Mac or Parallels

Is this likely to be possible?

Cheers
 
A quick update:

The VM started once for some reason got the XP desktop up but the spinning colorful timer never stopped and I had to force quit.

Then back to the previous reported problem: "The application Parallels quit unexpectedly"
 
Fixed I Think

I managed by re-booting to get the parallels to start (without starting XP) I they did an update of parallels and XP appears to be working.

I haven't however put it through it's paces yet.
 
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