Thanks. Just received my Parallels 5 just 2 days ago and thank gosh have not installed it yet.
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Warning for MP 2010 Owners DO NOT INSTALL PARALLELS
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Anyone able to share this build? They are making me jump through hoops to get this build and it'll take 2 days before I hear back from Tier 2 (according to the guy in India I talked to) and they want to send profiler information from the Report a Problem menu. I am not installing Parallels again to do this on a client's machine and risking any KP's which could damage the file system.
Glad to hear i could warn some people, my main issue is still the same, i have a time machine backup, that has parallels etc on it. When i try to restore from time machine, it kills my machine. So for now, i will wait and see what you guys come back with.
As for parallels support, they made me pay $19 for a support incident. Now they want to use webEx to find the problem!
I told them, its not installed since it kills my computer and i can not reboot, so i let them in on webEx, they installed it again and it killed my computer AGAIN! So now i was sitting there my computer want start and they keep emailing me to restart the webEx sessions!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Got a Dual Link DVI kvm and a PC
Works much better
As for parallels support, they made me pay $19 for a support incident. Now they want to use webEx to find the problem!
I told them, its not installed since it kills my computer and i can not reboot, so i let them in on webEx, they installed it again and it killed my computer AGAIN! So now i was sitting there my computer want start and they keep emailing me to restart the webEx sessions!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Got a Dual Link DVI kvm and a PC
Works much better Parallels new build
Parallels just got back to me. Extremely fast response, and on a weekend even!
The new build will be available next week.
Glad to hear i could warn some people, my main issue is still the same, i have a time machine backup, that has parallels etc on it. When i try to restore from time machine, it kills my machine.
Did you try booting in safe mode after the restore (holding down the shift key when booting)? Doing that, and then removing anything in /Library with the word "parallels" in it got my machine working again.
Parallels just got back to me. Extremely fast response, and on a weekend even!
The new build will be available next week.
Glad to hear i could warn some people, my main issue is still the same, i have a time machine backup, that has parallels etc on it. When i try to restore from time machine, it kills my machine.
Did you try booting in safe mode after the restore (holding down the shift key when booting)? Doing that, and then removing anything in /Library with the word "parallels" in it got my machine working again.
You really dont need to be in 64 bit mode unless youve got like 200 gigs or RAM anyway.
There is a new build out (yesterday) - 9376. This is supposed to fix the problem with the new Mac Pros. Has anyone tried it and does it work?
I left when they wanted me to pay $90 to upgrade to the latest version, which would be fine except that they made it so the old version would "expire" when used with a newer OS.
VMWare might be fine but [edit]Vbox is free, and Free is hard to beat.
I downloaded the new build yesterday and it seems to work, no kernel panics for me
Brilliant thanks. Hopefully my MP will be with me tomorrow so I will try it then.
Same here, I just installed a fresh system (on a new SSD) and used my earlier Parallels Desktop image and the installer downloaded a new version - that worked like a charm. Running OSX and Windows with 16G ram is -- heaven..
Edit: Edit
Hi studiox, You say "Fusion image" but you are talking about Parallels aren't you. Just to be sure.
Yea sorry, I have been a long Fusion customer so just a typo, fixed in my reply. Thx for noticing
New build is now available
The new build is available, as above. Here's the mail I received from Parallels:
As I promised, here is the link to the latest official build which includes the fix for the issue with new Mac Pros:
http://www.parallels.com/products/desktop/download/dr/
The new build is available, as above. Here's the mail I received from Parallels:
As I promised, here is the link to the latest official build which includes the fix for the issue with new Mac Pros:
http://www.parallels.com/products/desktop/download/dr/
Frankly, I'm not wedded to Fusion, but VBox has lagged behind both Fusion and Parallels in terms of features, stability and speed... at least, that was the case last time I looked. I'd be happy to switch to Vbox if it's solid and speedy now, and supports USB 2 and multi-core architectures as well as Fusion does.
So, what's the status? Is VirtualBox ready for primetime?
I have a couple of dissatisfactions with Fusion:
o In creating and managing VMs, there are far fewer options than in VMWare Workstation on Windows. Why?
o There is no free VMWare Player for OS X. Why?
o VMs are not portable between Fusion and Workstation. They're supposed to be, but I've always had problems. Right now I have some fairly simple Windows XP VMs on a USB hard disk that run like a hose in Fusion on the Mac but won't load into Workstation on a PC. Maddening.
o VMWare's service, while not as abysmal as Parallels' in my experience, is still pretty bad.
By the way, for creating VMs, most of the time you really don't need anything other than http://www.easyVMX.com
Parallels 6 is officially released tomorrow (Sep 14th) as far as I know, the beta builds are available from their own website.
A few years back VMware was rock steady and Parallels was... a mess. At this point in time, every review I've read recently places Parallels as being significantly faster than VMware at almost everything, the thing is... with a Mac Pro it doesn't matter so much (to me anyway), it's fast enough and I don't have any weird issues with it. I don't really love VMware, it wedges itself into everything and starts up a boatload of daemons that run all the time, even if I only use the VMs once in a long while when I absolutely need Windoze for something, but it's never completely hosed my system, or even really caused any strange problems. It just mostly works, including my latest transition to a dual-hex; had no problems with it.