Xp/ie7/ie6 Crash With Java 6

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I have sent an email to the Parallels team with details of this crash.

Hardware: 17" MBP 2.4 GHz core 2 duo, 4 GB RAM and the GeForce 8600M GT chipset; 30" Apple display

VM: MS XP Pro SP3, Parallels Desktop for Mac build 5584

Application: IE7 (or IE6), Java 6 applet active (webIRESS - www.iress.com.au)

Symptom: IE7/Java applet crash if screen resolution is increased beyond 2002 x 1361. Restarting IE7/Java applet in high resolution causes XP to reboot whenever the java applet is activated, briefly showing a blue screen with display error at startup - too fast to read error. Reducing the screen resolution below the above mentioned stops the crash.

Other Comments: The same application/screen setup runs fine on my Vista Ultimate VM. Problem is isolated to the XP installation. No problems with other resource intensive graphics applications in full screen mode on the XP VM.

Also note that the Java Control Panel crashes when clicking on to any button if the screen resolution is greater than the above mentioned.

Have tried removing and reinstalling Java 6 and performed the normal windoz maintenance tasks - no joy. Don't know where the issue lies - XP, Java or Parallels but hopefully the Parallels team will track it down.
 
I have this same problem.

When attempting to use any intense use java (remote consoles, interactive clients) I can not have the windows guest in full screen or it will blue screen on me.
I also found I can not have it in windowed mode any larger than about 1248 x 1024 or the java client just disappears(quits).

The work around is to switch to windowed mode, shrink the window down a bit, then run java apps.

I use a mac book pro 15" with an external HP 17 inch monitor.
 
Hello Kevin and Misaochankun,

Thank you for your reports. I am going to deliver them to our QA team.

Best regards,
Xenos
 
Hello,

Kevin, could you tell, what is your VM video memory?
Can you find crash logs and let us see them? Did you ask Microsoft support?

Misaochankun, are you using MS XP Pro SP3?

Best regards,
Xenos
 
I experienced the exact same blue screen in Parallels with a mission critical Java applet that my company uses. I tried both Java 6 and also Java 5, in IE 6 and IE 7, and the blue screens kept coming. The memory dump files kept referring to the Paralells VGA driver as being the problem (PrlVideo.dll or something like that), so I just gave up and switched to VMware Fusion, which I have been running for a month now with excellent success. No blue screens whatsoever. All my Java applets run just fine under VMware Fusion.
 
Xenos said:
Hello,

Kevin, could you tell, what is your VM video memory?
Can you find crash logs and let us see them? Did you ask Microsoft support?

Misaochankun, are you using MS XP Pro SP3?

Best regards,
Xenos
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At the time SP3 was not out.
I am using it now, but I haven't fired up parallels in a while.
I might pick it back up after the fusion beta is over.
The workout was fine enough for me, but it might be nice if the video driver is patched to solve this annoying issue.
 
Xenos - still having java crash problems with VM window expanded to use most of my 30" screen. Have all the latest updates installed - build 5600, XP Pro SP3, 10.5.3 and latest Java update.

VM memory is set at 16mb but seems to make no difference if I increase this to 64mb. No bugreports produced when VM crashes.

I have dumped Vista/boot camp (which does not have a video problem) and gone back to the normal XP Pro VM installation for simplicity and to avoid the repeated windows activation problems.

Really like to see this issue fixed.
 
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Xenos - just tried the iress website again with screen window fully expanded to use the 30" screen, this time with VM video memory set to 64mb. Seems to be OK now. However, there is no live data as the Australian stock market is closed, and this may be the difference.

Will try again tomorrow when the market is operating, and report back.

Regards - Kevin
 
Xenos - also note that the Java control panel no longer crashes the VM if VM video memory set to 64mb.

Will do further testing at different VM video memory settings tomorrow and report back - it is after midnight now (Brisbane Australia) and I am a little tired to carry on.
 
Xenos - XP Pro VM now working fine with Java live data and VM Video Memory set to 32mb.

That matter is resolved but I am still having display jitters/refresh issues following 10.5.3 update - know that a fix is coming soon.
 
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