Parallels + Vista Business Graphics & Mouse Issues

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mckinnmd

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Hi,

I am currently running a 24" iMac w/ a 22" Dell display next to it, with Parallels to run Windows Vista Business on the Dell screen. I am running into a few problems I was hoping someone could help me with.

Graphics:

I am unable to display any screen savers other than the windows logo (they all come up as not being able to be displayed because of lack of sufficient video memory but I am running the 128mb NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT card.) It also runs animation slowly. Is this a problem with sufficient drivers? Do I need to install those into the parallels virtual machine? The "graphics" option in Parallel Tools is "disabled" and grayed out.

Mouse:

1. I am unable to choose the option to move my mouse freely between OSX and Vista, the option is grayed out in Parallel Tools as well.

Please help!

-Matt
 
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All hardware, including video, is virtualised, which means "not real". So in your virtual machine, you are running virtual hardware, not real hardware.

Have a read of the manual. It says all about it.;)
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Thanks for lesson.

Thanks so much for the lesson in VMware (I sell the stuff...) That has nothing to do with what I am talking about.

The virtualization is still limited by certain hardware constraints... hence why there are system requirements...

For anyone else, interested in helping me out: Is there a preference I am not setting right that is restricting my access to mousing between mac osx and the virtual machine without keystrokes (I was able to do this with Windows XP) and why is it not allowing me to utilize my video card?

Thank you,
 
I figured it out.

Alright guys I figured it out... I needed to reinstall Parallel Tools after I upgraded to Vista.

Thanks!
 
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For someone who sells vmware, you don't understand virtualisation too much.

The video hardware in the vm, is like all the other hardware in the vm. It is not the real hardware. The video in the vm is a virtualised video card, vga, 8Mb. That's the extent of it. No matter what your "real" video card is. Also the nic for example, is a virtualised (emulated if you will) realtec 8029, not what your actual nic is.

Have a read of the manual. It says all about it.
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Ditto. Read the manual, look-up anything you don't understand. You will be far along in the general knowledge of virtualization by that alone. :p
 
Actually, Constant, Parallels is able to virtualize up to 32mb of VRAM, and supports SVGA. This is why I asked if there was a setting that was limiting how much VRAM Parallels was virtualizing. You're simply not understanding that I know how virtualization works and really don't need your smug and basic explaination of vmware. It's obvious I'm not going to get any help on this topic so I'll go ahead and assume the question dead.
 
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