Parallels Desktop for Mac build 3106 Beta 3 is available for download.

[cyberphilia]

Blackout after XP boots

Hi. Thank you for numbers of great improvements such as "copy and paste double byte characters" and so on. I purchased your license around in September, and I have been very happy with your product.

I really like the newly added suspension-on-quit feature, and I think that it would be even better if you display some messages while it is not possible to operate an OS system in resuming from a suspension. It is confusing that a resumed screen stays for about good 10 seconds until it is finally operational.

Please keep up your great work!

Best regards.,

I also have the same sympotom as this. With 1970, XP w/SP2 successfully boots past the XP splash screen, but with 3106, the screen blacks out after the splash.
I did not check the error message, but uninstalling 3106 and getting back to 1970 will make my XP VM boot without any problem. I tried reinstalling 3106 a couple of times, but the result was the same.
I suspect this has something to do with Parallels Tools, especially the version mismatch might be causing this blackout, but I am not sure.
Does anybody have this symptom too?

 

[grouch]

"cache policy" option no longer available?

"cache policy" option came in handy in build 1970. now it seems no longer available. or am i missing something???
anyway, build 3106 slows everything down to a crawl (on the win side as well as in mac apps) on a mac mini 2gb ram.
could anybody suggest ideal setting for this machine? manx tx!

 

[hartmood]

Softwin Bitdefender 8 Professional Plus - reinstall crashes PD

Hi all,

Bitdefender 8 prof. plus did not update signature file with beta 3. A reinstall of the software causes PDfM to crash.

I hope that with a stable version and Bitdefender 10 this prob will be gone...

Nevertheless the new coherence features are quite cool!

Regards,
hartmood

 

[shadowreader]

Also, Philips Speechmike Pro USB 6274 doesn't work. Can use as mic but controls don't function.

 

[flummi]

Activation Key for Parallels SW

Hi,

i just bought Parallels from my local dealer. Now I downloaded the Build 3106 Beta 3, installed it and tried to activate it with the key from the Parallels SW from my local dealer. But it said, that the key is for another version of Parallels. Am I not allowed to use the key for the latest version? Or do I have to install the local dealer version and then upgrade to the 3106?

Sincerely,
Flummi

 

[BillInSoBe]

Hi,

i just bought Parallels from my local dealer. Now I downloaded the Build 3106 Beta 3, installed it and tried to activate it with the key from the Parallels SW from my local dealer. But it said, that the key is for another version of Parallels. Am I not allowed to use the key for the latest version? Or do I have to install the local dealer version and then upgrade to the 3106?

Sincerely,
Flummi

Flummi -- Are you outside of the US? I've read another thread somewhere that stated license codes for products bought outside of the US don't work with early release builds such as Beta 3.

If you want to use the beta 3, you'll probably need to goto http://www.parallels.com/en/download/desktop/ and select "Get a trail key". I would think once a GA release of this product is available your retail license should work.

 

[flummi]

Activation Key from outside the US for Parallels Beta 3

Flummi -- Are you outside of the US? I've read another thread somewhere that stated license codes for products bought outside of the US don't work with early release builds such as Beta 3.

If you want to use the beta 3, you'll probably need to goto http://www.parallels.com/en/download/desktop/ and select "Get a trail key". I would think once a GA release of this product is available your retail license should work.

Yes, I am in Germany and have a German Parallels Version - well this seems to be the reason. So I can't enjoy the latest Beta 3 but have to wait for a stable version? I would love to use Paralles for my Boot-Camp Windows that I just installed. Well, this was actually the reason I bought Parallels, because I dont want two Windows Installations on my MBP.

Thanx for your help.

 

[Doobla]

Thanks for the great software. I run the latest beta now and its working really great with my macbook pro.
The only really annoying problem I have is, that when I swap the cmd/ctrl keys in the keyboard preferences task, I cannot use "cmd"-leftMouseButton to select multiple files in windows-explorer. When I don not swap the keys "ctrl"-leftMouseButton it is working as expected. It would be great if that issue could be fixed in the next release.

Thank you!

Another side effect that I am not sure has been mentioned is that when you swap the cmd/ctrl keys then the menu item in the VM's dock icon that shows the start menu stops working.

Maybe a nice toggleable feature would be to make the "start menu" menu item a submenu with all of the start menu "stuff" in it.

Oh, one other thing I noticed is that the Make Screen Shot function either produces old screenshots or completely black images.

 

[newf709]

Motorola Q

I am hoping that the Parallels team is working on getting the Motorola Q to work. If anyone has got it to work please msg me.....
Thanks.

 

[MattD]

Also, Philips Speechmike Pro USB 6274 doesn't work. Can use as mic but controls don't function.

Would that be due to following note:

NOTE! Current Build 3106 doesn’t support isochronous devices such as web cameras, microphones, etc.​

 

[skopcho]

My bugs

First of all, thanks for this amazing program! Now on to the bugs I've come across.

Bug #1 - I had a clean install of XP that I had purposely not activated until this Beta 3 because of the Boot Camp activation issues. I activated for the first time in Parallels, but then on first boot into Boot Camp, it asked to reactivate, which I didn't do. On the next startup of Parallels, it said that I couldn't log in until I activated Windows - as if it had never been activated. As long as I don't boot into Boot Camp, there are no activation/reactivation issues.

Bug #2 - The Parallels Tools installation warning overlay comes on every single time I start up Windows in Parallels now.

Any temporary solutions to these?

 

[nezermundy]

First of all, thanks for this amazing program! Now on to the bugs I've come across.

Bug #1 - I had a clean install of XP that I had purposely not activated until this Beta 3 because of the Boot Camp activation issues. I activated for the first time in Parallels, but then on first boot into Boot Camp, it asked to reactivate, which I didn't do. On the next startup of Parallels, it said that I couldn't log in until I activated Windows - as if it had never been activated. As long as I don't boot into Boot Camp, there are no activation/reactivation issues.

Bug #2 - The Parallels Tools installation warning overlay comes on every single time I start up Windows in Parallels now.

Any temporary solutions to these?

Join the crowd....

 

[photo]

More Bluescreen Here

I have the same problem, cannot boot my fat32 bootcamp partition. Get bluescreen during start up. Never worked on any version yet either. Not sure if reinstalling my bootcamp winxp would help. Any suggestions? Thanks.

Ditto. I have a 32GB Fat32 Bootcamp partitiion.
I get a bluescreen when booting Parallels from this partition, and have done in every beta so far.
If I do a Repair Install of Windows in Parallels, I can boot from the partition using Parallels, but then I get the Bluescreen if I try and boot using Bootcamp.

Consistent behaviour in all three Betas.

Looking at the posts, this seems to be quitee a common problem. Does anyone have a soluttion yet?

 

[hookedonitunes]

Win98SE Help?

I had Windows 98 SE installed on the 1970 build of Parallels and it worked fine (for Windows 98 ) but when I upgraded to this build and upgraded the Parallels tools, I keep getting a BSOD error upon starting up Windows 98.... tried booting up in Safe Mode, uninstalling the tools then re-installing them, still have the BSOD.... can anyone offer any suggestions on how else to get my Windows 98 to work? Thanks!

 

[ArmchairDeity]

I had the grey screen of doom issue too before upgrading Parallels Tools (I'd remembered to shut my machine down first though) - I found that restarting in safe mode, removing the tools and then reinstalling the tools fixed this. I am getting constant Parallels crashes now though - W2k isn't usable here. XP seems to work fine though. Do you have Service Pack 4 + all updates installed, as I do?

Yep... I installed SP4+Updates when I went to install Oracle 10g under Parallels. I opted for Win2k since I had it immediately available and didn't have a copy of XP around at the time. So I went for Win2k and added SP4 to the updates I'd alread installed.

After adding SP4 to Win2k, I installed Oracle and it went great. I've gone from the production build to 3036 and then to 3106. Like I said, I grayscreened when I tried to launch a VM, so I dropped back to 3036, launched the VM, removed the tools and then powered it down. Maybe that was a key. Then I rolled forward again to 3106 and launched my VM and installed the Tools.

Something that I just remembered, however... also, after I launched 3106 and started installing the Tools package, Parallels seemed like it would hang up again (chewing up logs of memory and going very slow). So I force quit Parallels and restarted my laptop, and restarted the VM again. From then on it went perfectly.

You might want to try dropping back to 3036, uninstalling Tools and then rolling forward again to 3106 to reinstall the tools once more.

Anything in the logs?

J

 

[FamousPete]

Gettin' your activation on

First of all, thanks for this amazing program! Now on to the bugs I've come across.

Bug #1 - I had a clean install of XP that I had purposely not activated until this Beta 3 because of the Boot Camp activation issues. I activated for the first time in Parallels, but then on first boot into Boot Camp, it asked to reactivate, which I didn't do. On the next startup of Parallels, it said that I couldn't log in until I activated Windows - as if it had never been activated. As long as I don't boot into Boot Camp, there are no activation/reactivation issues.

Bug #2 - The Parallels Tools installation warning overlay comes on every single time I start up Windows in Parallels now.

Any temporary solutions to these?

+1

I'm facing the same exact issues.

1.83 GHz MacBook Pro, OS X 10.4.8, Windows XP SP2

 

[robertouy]

its working fine to me...

Hi, just wanted to share my experience.
I've downloaded the 3106 beta, uninstalled the previus one ussing the dmg uninstall (keeping my winxp parallels folder), i did a reboot, then installed the new version, booted on xp in failsafe mode, uninstalled the prefvious parallels tools, rebooted windows, installed the new parallels tools, and voila, everything is working just fine, out of the box!



Greetings

Roberto.

 

[vilmoskörte]

Ecomstation does not boot in 3106

Ecomstation 1.2R does crash during boot in build 3106: Exception in module LOCKCDR, see screendump in attachment. Needless to say that it worked in previous version (build 1970).

If I disable the CDROM it will boot.

 

[hwestiii]

GA date?

Is there an estimated date for when the 3106 Beta code will be GA?

 

[BillInSoBe]

Estimated GA Date.

Is there an estimated date for when the 3106 Beta code will be GA?

NO estimate for a GA date should be posted until some of these issues have been resolved. We've gone from a product that was fairly solid to something with a ton of outstanding issues.

We're in the middle of beta testing a fairly complex product. If Parallels is serious about delivering a quality product that is going to meet the needs of the people using it we'll have a couple more cycles before GA.