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Seems ok 
- Version: 5.0.9310, 1/19/2010 04:22PM PST
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This was a painless (for once) update.
It was a mere increment, but it seeeeeems to have gone ok, and performance, especially shutdown of my Win 7 environment, seeeeeems to be better.
I did off course back up my virtual disk beforehand (straight finder copy), and ran a time machine update on my mac before letting this loose.
It was a mere increment, but it seeeeeems to have gone ok, and performance, especially shutdown of my Win 7 environment, seeeeeems to be better.
I did off course back up my virtual disk beforehand (straight finder copy), and ran a time machine update on my mac before letting this loose.
Worked without issue for updating an existing v5 install - Version: 5.0.9310, 1/19/2010 02:08PM PST
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When I migrated from Parallels 3 to 5 earlier this month, I was concerned from some of the posts of all the things that can go wrong. So I checked their forums. http://forum.parallels.com/ My experience over the years is that forums and listserves can often supply accurate information far more quickly than companies. After all, companies have limited resources, and experienced users greatly expand 'real world' data.
So I first used the compression tool to clean up my VMs (Vista Biz, XP Pro, ME, and 98SE). That alone probably saved a ton of headaches -- the disk cleanup and defrag. Then I made backup copies of each VM to a spare drive. Then I installed Parallels 5
For each VM, the wizard had to jump to Manual at some point so I could address a dialog box or two. Once done (and allowed the time to convert), that was it. Each VM booted. XP seemed to take forever to finally get to the desktop the first time, but subsequent shutdowns and relaunch of the VM had it noticeably snappier than v3.
I'm sure there are so many who have more complicated issues, but mine really was just going through the dialogs (and noticing that dialogs would often overlay, so I had to move them around to see the underlying one that was holding up the conversion). I'm also not a gamer, so my VMs typically use OpenOffice Quickbooks, and web tools (Arachnophilia, Filezilla, Eudora, Safari, iTunes, Firefox), along with a handful of decent malware stuff like AVG and Malwarebytes.
There is a lot of fussing here -- but it may be as simple as cleaning up your VM prior to conversion, uninstalling anything that you don't use/need, and look out for an Symantec or McAfee or Kasperski products.
For all of the complexity it has to overcome in terms of wacky Windows behavior, Parallels v5 does very well (I was never brave enough to test v4, but a SnowLeopard move forced me to look to the current shipping product).
So I first used the compression tool to clean up my VMs (Vista Biz, XP Pro, ME, and 98SE). That alone probably saved a ton of headaches -- the disk cleanup and defrag. Then I made backup copies of each VM to a spare drive. Then I installed Parallels 5
For each VM, the wizard had to jump to Manual at some point so I could address a dialog box or two. Once done (and allowed the time to convert), that was it. Each VM booted. XP seemed to take forever to finally get to the desktop the first time, but subsequent shutdowns and relaunch of the VM had it noticeably snappier than v3.
I'm sure there are so many who have more complicated issues, but mine really was just going through the dialogs (and noticing that dialogs would often overlay, so I had to move them around to see the underlying one that was holding up the conversion). I'm also not a gamer, so my VMs typically use OpenOffice Quickbooks, and web tools (Arachnophilia, Filezilla, Eudora, Safari, iTunes, Firefox), along with a handful of decent malware stuff like AVG and Malwarebytes.
There is a lot of fussing here -- but it may be as simple as cleaning up your VM prior to conversion, uninstalling anything that you don't use/need, and look out for an Symantec or McAfee or Kasperski products.
For all of the complexity it has to overcome in terms of wacky Windows behavior, Parallels v5 does very well (I was never brave enough to test v4, but a SnowLeopard move forced me to look to the current shipping product).
After quite some time of nothing happening, I connected with Parallels support chat. During our discussion of problem description, symptoms, etc. I returned to the Parallels window and it had finally progressed. It completed successfully soon after.
Since I had auto-run disabled in XP. I had to manually find and open the Parallels Tools CD to launch its setup.exe.
By the way, the Parallels support rep. was quite helpful in the chat session on the conversion process and the Parallels Tools installation.
Paul
P.S. Another nice thing is that Parallels Tools now supports Ubuntu! My mouse cursor is no long trapped within the confines of the window. (Thanks, guys.)