Parallels Desktop for Mac build 3036 Beta is available for download.

palter · Dec 3, 2006

Morgenl said:
This is a great update! And for the first time upgrading did not require a reload of SPSS (statistical software) which made me really happy.

The intriguing thing I noticed while playing around with screen resizing was that my Recycle Bin (sitting in my lower right corner of the Windows screen) gets "fixed" in its location relative to the whole monitor no matter how I resize Windows (unless I resize windows smaller then it regains it lower right corner spot). For example, if Windows is taking up the upper right quadrant of my monitor so that Recycle is sitting just up and left of the centre of my monitor screen (in the lower right corner of Windows), then I enlarge the Windows portion, the Recycle Bin remains just up and left of the center of my monitor screen. The Recycle Bin doesn't seem to be "tied" so to speak to a location relative to Windows, but rather to an overall spot on the monitor.

Hope that made sense.

That's perfectly normal. Windows doesn't relocate the Recycle Bin icon if you move from a lower to higher resolution. I've seen this on real machines as well as virtual ones.

render · Dec 3, 2006

'Use Boot camp' grayed out in image creation menu

I was very excited about hearing the new beta will work in Boot Camp. Unfortunately, it doesn't work for me. The 'use boot camp' option is grayed out and unselectable in the create image menu .

I have a working Boot Camp Window XP pro partition, but it doesn't seem to recognize it.
The only thing that might be unusual about my installation is that I did not do the actual repartitioning using Boot Camp; I have several partitions - OS X, XP, Linux, and Linux swap.

Any ideas how I can get Parallels to recognize the XP partition?

Thanks

Saxamaphone · Dec 3, 2006

Coherency no workency!

Hi,
I have a Mac Pro with 4GB of RAM and coherency will not work for me. I have uninstalled and re-installed the parallels tools a few times (the version linked at the beginning of this thread). Is there a later version I am not finding? A re-install seemed to work for an earlier poster but has not had any effect for me.

no coherency
no drag-n-drop

any help would be appreciated.

TIA,
Sax

alexbet · Dec 3, 2006

First of all, let me tell you that this version of Parallels is AWESOME!!!!! I especially love the coherense feature. It rocks!!!! When I develop web pages, I always have to use both Mac and PC programs because I code in ASP. The coherence feature will make my job SOOOO much easier.

There is only one thing that I have a problem with. I am on a Mac Pro here and the "shared networking" is now greyed out, I can't select it. Because of this, I had to switch to bridged networking. Is there any way to go back to shared networking?

Excellent job Parallels team!!!

stevko · Dec 3, 2006

Problem with Boot Camp loading

Hey everyone;
I seem to be having an issue with the new beta and my machine. It's a Mac Pro, has a separate NTFS hard drive with windows on it. I set up the parallels for boot camp on the XP installation, loaded parallels on my machine, and tried to boot it up. I got the following messages:

1) "Your CPU supports Intel Virtulization (VT-x) but it is currently disabled (locked by firmware). Virtual machine will be started without the VT-x support (in software virtualization mode). Try to do the following: stop your VM, put your Mac into the Sleep Mode (Apple Menu -> Sleep Item) and wake it to unlock VT-x, then start your VM again.

(To note, I tried that, and it didn't work. Any ideas?)

2) The boot window contains the following:
-------
Parallels(R) VGA-Compatible Bios Version 1.05

<bleah bleah copyright>

640 KB Base Memory
1048567 KB Extended Memory
Boot from hard drive... Error loading operating system.

----------

OK, I've got no idea. I do note that the separate hard drive, which usually appears on my desktop, is de-mounted when I start the XP instance running.

Anyone know what's happening?

alexbet · Dec 3, 2006

In addition to my above post, there is also one more problem that I found. I know that someone mentioned this before. When I try to compact the disk, the process goes fine in the guest os, and then brakes when it is supposed to start in the primary OS.

GregA · Dec 3, 2006

Andrew @ Parallels said:
why do you need multiprocessor support in VM? Parallels Desktop is tuned to run best on dual core Macs - one core is fully utilized by Windows and second core by Mac OS X. Optimal performance for both systems.

Ahh, nope... don't want that

If I was heavily using both Windows and OSX simultaneously, it'd be fair enough to simply give them a core each. Most of the time though, I'm heavily using one app (eg iMovie) ... and I want as much resources as possible to go to that app.

Actually, I assume that already happens. ie: Parallels doesn't take over a whole core of the dual-core, it just can't use more than one?

GregA · Dec 3, 2006

krolco said:
I was able to boot natively back into XP via Boot Camp and reactivate (because the hardware hasn't actually changed); however, after rebooting again into OS X and relaunching Parallels, I was prompted to reactivate again.

I assume that if you enabled multiple hardware profiles (in the control panel - system), one for Bootcamp and one for Parallels - that this issue may be resolved???

dailo said:
Is there a possibility to copy over one of my parallels XP virtual machine onto my BootCamp partition?

That'd be great for anyone who already has Parallels and would like Bootcamp occassionally. I imagine most future users will install Bootcamp and then add Parallels.

In fact, perhaps Apple is planning on selling Macs with WindowsXP available via Bootcamp. Then a small fee for Parallels would get many people quickly using Windows and OSX side by side. I wonder if Parallels will make a deal with Apple to bundle.

Anyway.. lets hide that task bar and integrate it into the dock ASAP

Should we then set the Mac home directory to the Windows home directories? Or vice versa?

GregA · Dec 3, 2006

penngrove said:
- a windows utility/driver/program such that if a guest VM application starts the browser, email, music program, etc... it's the Mac version that is started in the host VM.

That would be nice. And vice versa too.

Personally, we have ACT, which integrates with Outlook Express. I don't want to run Outlook Express on parallels... but I have no choice.

Pity there's no way of having windows fake OE (or Eudora), while really using Mail.app (or Entourage).

krolco · Dec 4, 2006

GregA said:
I assume that if you enabled multiple hardware profiles (in the control panel - system), one for Bootcamp and one for Parallels - that this issue may be resolved???

...

HI GregA,

Not so much... I didn't enable anything manually. The Parallels Tools for Boot Camp seem to enable the hardware profiles.

And I didn't get the problem "fixed"... I just decided to reactivate under Boot Camp and wait until the Parallels solution was out of beta.

ebernet · Dec 4, 2006

Give it a break....

gkantz said:
...So now my Boot Camp is totally hosed! Good thing I just installed it with nothing else but Windows, but now I'll have to start over. This is a HUGE issue, guys - what this tells me is that now that you are messing with the Boot Camp partition, the possibility of corruption now exists. And guess what? You can't just "restore" from a backup or ghost image, to the best of my knowledge.

The other features (drag and drop, coherence, etc) look fantastic, but this needs to be addressed right away. BTW, we have to have USB 2.0 support!

Wow, what a complainer....
Bootcamp is BETA, 3036 is BETA, 2.0 support was not promised until 3.0...
You have some nerve buddy
Go get a life

GJT2004 · Dec 4, 2006

stevko said:
Hey everyone;
I seem to be having an issue with the new beta and my machine. It's a Mac Pro, has a separate NTFS hard drive with windows on it. I set up the parallels for boot camp on the XP installation, loaded parallels on my machine, and tried to boot it up. I got the following messages:

1) "Your CPU supports Intel Virtulization (VT-x) but it is currently disabled (locked by firmware). Virtual machine will be started without the VT-x support (in software virtualization mode). Try to do the following: stop your VM, put your Mac into the Sleep Mode (Apple Menu -> Sleep Item) and wake it to unlock VT-x, then start your VM again.

(To note, I tried that, and it didn't work. Any ideas?)

2) The boot window contains the following:
-------
Parallels(R) VGA-Compatible Bios Version 1.05

<bleah bleah copyright>

640 KB Base Memory
1048567 KB Extended Memory
Boot from hard drive... Error loading operating system.

----------

OK, I've got no idea. I do note that the separate hard drive, which usually appears on my desktop, is de-mounted when I start the XP instance running.

Anyone know what's happening?

Hello, I have just the same set up, and the same problems, perhaps it is because the Windows i on another disk (disk2) Hmmm

sethmw · Dec 4, 2006

Vista and Boot Camp

Will the final release or next release of Parallels support booting into a Vista Boot Camp partition? Or is this not possible with Vista at all?

Thanks
Seth

Olivier · Dec 4, 2006

sethmw said:
Will the final release or next release of Parallels support booting into a Vista Boot Camp partition? Or is this not possible with Vista at all?

Does BootCamp itself support Vista yet?
Not at all.
Then why expect Parallels support Vista in BootCamp when you can't even use Vista in BootCamp itself...
I guess that **when** BootCamp will offer Vista support, then there is no doubt Parallels will support it.

PeterW · Dec 4, 2006

just another request for MacDrive support...

very cool, but I won't be touching it until Macdrive support works flawlessly.

DBCohen · Dec 4, 2006

scrytch said:
This is not a resolution at all. It is illegal and against the license I have purchased. The real resolution is the Parallels team need to resolve this ASAP as this is a major show stopper for me.

What would be great is if someone from Parallels actually responded to someone (anyone) in this forum that has posted this issue - to let us know they are aware and working on a fix (timeframes would be great!).

Regards,
Shane.

You need to calm down - this is BETA software, not released product. You use it at your own risk. The reason they have not released it is that it still has bugs and is not finished yet.

Really, anyone who installs a beta without backing up their system only has themselves to blame if something gets broken. Dancing up and down demanding instant resolution is completely unfair on the Parallels team.

rorschachm · Dec 4, 2006

render said:
I was very excited about hearing the new beta will work in Boot Camp. Unfortunately, it doesn't work for me. The 'use boot camp' option is grayed out and unselectable in the create image menu .

I have a working Boot Camp Window XP pro partition, but it doesn't seem to recognize it.
The only thing that might be unusual about my installation is that I did not do the actual repartitioning using Boot Camp; I have several partitions - OS X, XP, Linux, and Linux swap.

Any ideas how I can get Parallels to recognize the XP partition?

Thanks

I started a thread on this topic, and it looks like the fact that our partitioning wasn't through Boot Camp properly might be the cause...

http://forum.parallels.com/thread6135.html

No real solution that I've heard, though.

grahammclellan · Dec 4, 2006

Unable to open disk image Boot Camp!

Does any else get this error "Unable to open disk image Boot Camp!" when trying to start a session using a Boot Camp installation?

I have XP MCE (Media Center Edition) installed.

Thanx

Andrew @ Parallels · Dec 4, 2006

scrytch said:
This is not a resolution at all. It is illegal and against the license I have purchased. The real resolution is the Parallels team need to resolve this ASAP as this is a major show stopper for me.

What would be great is if someone from Parallels actually responded to someone (anyone) in this forum that has posted this issue - to let us know they are aware and working on a fix (timeframes would be great!).

Regards,
Shane.

We are working on reactivation issue. I apologize for inconvinience.

Robster · Dec 4, 2006

Hi

I am sure I have seen this question but not a reply, although this is such a fast moving thread it is difficult to keep up.

I have a good working Parallels VM that I woudl LOVE to convert to Bootcamp so I can get the best of both worlds without having to do a load of installs again.

Is there a way to do this?

Cheers.

Robin

PS A BRILLIANT release. Well done to everyone at Parallels.