Problems with Parallels 4.0

[Stone Ninja]

Hey Everyone,

I just 'upgraded' my parallels install today, up to 4.0 from 3.0. Strangely, this seems to have stopped Backtrack 3 working, at all.

I was only using it to launch the normal BT iso, so it seems strange. It keeps hanging up whilst it lists hardware, specifically the 'floppy drive' (a virtual one, and yes, I tried without it attached, still no luck).

I've tried all the hardware configs I can think of, and still no luck... Maybe I'm missing something but I think it's a problem with this version of parallels as I've never had problems like this before.

It's a shame, it has a really nice interface and feels more polished, but I guess I'll be going back to VMware myself, at least until this is fixed.

Still, don't 'test' this version of Parallels unless you are happy you can fix the above, or don't need version 3.0, as it removes your prior version of Parallels, even if you just want to try it, which seems a bit much.

Also, and this is unrelated to BT, it couldn't upgrade my winxp installation for some reason. So, anyway, unless I've missed something obvious (which is possible), let this stand as a warning.

[macfusion]

My upgrade to v4.0 WXP and Ubuntu went without a hitch except for loading BackTrack3. It took me a couple hrs but figured out to update the bootloader at the boot menu (w/tab). I had attempted to make updates to the bootlilo.sh script, but obviously r/o even though tried to change the rights to the file. Just add acpi=off to the kernel option of the bootloader and Backtrack 3 will load.

Maybe the Parallels will add code to correct this error in an update.

[Barry]

I've had nothing but headaches with parallels in my new job. We used vmware everywhere in my last job, including virtualized redundant servers. The new place uses parallels, at least for the next few months. I set up one of the machines with vmware fusion and the developers like it much better.