I'm running Leopard 10.5.2 with Parallels 3.0.5584, Boot Camp Windows XP partition, typically just running Adobe Framemaker in coherence mode on a 4GB 2.8GHz iMac
I've been running it for a short while and unfortunately my impressions so far are not good - it is simply too unstable to use in a production environment. When running it, I will typically experience one of two things on a daily basis:
1) Entire computer hangs (typified by the spinning coloured disk cursor). No application (Mac or PC) is responsive. The resolution is to wait (I would say 2-3 minutes) at which point everything springs back to life, although usually the '[C] My Boot Camp' mount disappears from the Mac side of things. Hard to say whether this is Parallel's fault or not apart from the disappearing Boot Camp mount.
2) Parallels just hangs. 'top' shows it only using 0.5% CPU but it completely unresponsive and requires a 'force quit' to unwedge. This happens so frequently it's bordering on unusable and happens at random (i.e. not when the windows applications are actually doing anything)
As a final annoyance, it seems to interact pretty badly with Spaces - dialog boxes etc seem to keep Spaces repeatedly moving to the Parallels workspace even when only showing (for example) a progress bar.
Am I alone with these problems? Any advice?
I've been running it for a short while and unfortunately my impressions so far are not good - it is simply too unstable to use in a production environment. When running it, I will typically experience one of two things on a daily basis:
1) Entire computer hangs (typified by the spinning coloured disk cursor). No application (Mac or PC) is responsive. The resolution is to wait (I would say 2-3 minutes) at which point everything springs back to life, although usually the '[C] My Boot Camp' mount disappears from the Mac side of things. Hard to say whether this is Parallel's fault or not apart from the disappearing Boot Camp mount.
2) Parallels just hangs. 'top' shows it only using 0.5% CPU but it completely unresponsive and requires a 'force quit' to unwedge. This happens so frequently it's bordering on unusable and happens at random (i.e. not when the windows applications are actually doing anything)
As a final annoyance, it seems to interact pretty badly with Spaces - dialog boxes etc seem to keep Spaces repeatedly moving to the Parallels workspace even when only showing (for example) a progress bar.
Am I alone with these problems? Any advice?