I've just installed the latest update hoping the performance would improve but it doesn't I'm running windows xp home with 412 Mb allocated - the max. recommended and 512Mb for the Parallels itself. Everytime i open windows I get a "Virtual Memory Minimum Too Low" warning. I've followed the recommendation in Windows and still get the warning. Also, it takes about 2 min. or more to launch Internet Explorer 7 beta This doesn't seem normal performance to me. Anyone have any suggestions or similar experiences?
Multiple posts don't help others - specially when this is the wrong forum to post to. Can you take the time out of your busy schedule to read the topic of the forum?
Despite the fact that this is in the wrong forum... You can't expect to have a fast VM with so little memory. If you build a XP SP2 machine with 412MB of ram it will be slow as molasses. If you have a OS X machine with 512MB of ram, it is slow as molasses. Don't get me wrong, OS X is fantastic... but it is a memory hog. it needs 1GB to run smoothly, 2GB is preferred (for me atleast. I am a demanding user, being a power user/developer.) I run XP with 1GB of ram and set the max for Parallels to use as 1024 + 128 (whatever that is,) leaving the remaining ~850MB or so for OS X. In doing so both operating systems run side-by-side very well. You simply cant starve a memory hog of an os (OS X), and run a virtual machine of another memory hog of an OS (XP) and expect to have fast performance... RAM isn't that expensive. When I bought mine I got 2x1GB sticks of Mushkin (good ram) for under $200 with 2-day shipping included
