Parallels Beta refuses to make new or use existing HDD images when installed on WWDC Leopard Preview.* resorting back to Q.
Yes, of course the official release is far away, but it would be nice to use parallels with leopard in the meantime. Not that I have leopard, I'm not a developer. *wink
It's a DEVELOPER PREVIEW BETA. This is the first time the DEVELOPER's get the code to test their apps with. From what I've read, right now there are other apps that don't work either. This is not a surprise. It's interesting to know that Parallels doesn't work as it is now, but it certainly isn't a surprise.
get real, parallels is special. there are probably 10,000 ways it can break since it has to deal with the OS at such a low level. in other word, it isnt just "an app".
Given that what apple seeded to us at WWDC was a preview of a subset of the features that will be in Leopard, it would probably be a bit of a stretch to expect Parallels to class this fix as a high priority. That being said, I certainly wouldn't complain if I could run Parallels at the same time as using Xcode 3.0
I had a quick spin on Parallels under Leopard with an existing Virtual Machine, worked without any problems. lg philipp
//s 1862 fails to load an image -- drive geometry error. Release build works fine. Given that release worked and beta fails, now seems the perfect time to point it out b/c there's probably only so many changes that went in. 1862 is great in that it works my Treo 700w, but sad in that I can't stay in leopard. I would greatly appreciate it if I could stay in leopard, but understand it's probably not a priority (other than it seems an easy time to rollback).
There are a couple of glitches with the beta on the WWDC Developer preview. 1) Drawing happens in funny colors I suspect this is due to the use of QT for drawing.* If you look at the QT source code (I have no idea what version Parallels uses). It checks for the OS version (qlobal.cpp:1458) and only understands 10.0 -> 10.4.x. 2) Disk Geometry problem Not sure what is causing this, but makes it so you can't make or use existing VMs.
Oh, BTW, to get around #1 Change your*/System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist* ProductVersion value from 10.5 to 10.4.7. Launch Parallels (the latest beta). And then change ProductVersion back to 10.5. #1 goes away.
