Comments on: Parallels 3.0 on Snow Leopard

By: havvg

havvg — Sat, 22 May 2010 14:45:30 +0000

Sorry, but this would be illegal. I’m not uploading it anywhere.

By: Shane

Shane — Sat, 22 May 2010 14:24:17 +0000

hey can you upload your 3.0 Build 5638 dmg plz? i cant find it..

By: havvg

havvg — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 19:27:05 +0000

I’m using Parallels 3.0 Build 5638 (from 4th July 2009) – hope that helps :)

By: dennis

dennis — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 08:14:58 +0000

Hi, could you deliver the exact build of Parallels 3?

On my MBP15″ with broken CD/DVD, I need it to install Windows 7 on my Boot Camp partition through Parallels :-(

Explanation:
By default Bootcamp prepares only Fat-Filesystem. But Windows needs a NTFS-Filesystem. When I do format to NTFS before, Parallels 4 an 5 asume that it has no write access and wont start the install at all.

With Parallels 3 it was easy to do a reformat from Fat to NTFS during the windows installing process (windows7 is suggesting this) choosing BootCamp as the target drive for the installation (no virtual drive).. and done!

But with Parallels V4 an V5 it wont work anylonger, as they prevent also manipulations to the mbr of the original hardrive and store this info into a virtual hardrive. You simply cant reformat the bootcamp partition. Also Windows Bootloader wont be able to write any information to that area anylonger.

So… windows wont boot…

With Paralels 3 it worked like a charm.

BTW: all the hassle because Apple Hardware wont boot from legacy USB-drives with non Apple GUI or HFS+ filesystem… also rEFIT wont work… tried it all, like a thousand other MBP or MacBook Air users :-(

By: Klaus

Klaus — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 11:51:38 +0000

Thanks a lot from a German Paralells User to you.

Works fine on my imac 20′ under SL.

By: untergeek

untergeek — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:43:21 +0000

[...] ja was von digitaler Erpressung! – habe ich weiter gesucht und bin über den Apfeltalk auf den exzellenten Tipp von Toni gestoßen: das Parallels-Paket aufschnüren und das Executable einfach direkt starten, als Terminal-Programm. [...]

By: quaint

quaint — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:43:44 +0000

i’ve turned on home folder sharing and that caused the problem. when every sharing option is off everything is good back again.

By: havvg

havvg — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:42:29 +0000

Try starting Parallels before you start heavy applications. In my situation it’s eclipse which causes the same problem.

By: quaint

quaint — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:25:49 +0000

it worked for me for some time and suddenly stoped. now every time i start parallels this way whole macos crashes.

By: havvg

havvg — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:45:40 +0000

Hey Jeff, I can’t figure out, why it should not be there. Here is the Screenshot of the menu (English version). http://www.flickr.com/photos/toni-uebernickel/3887106283/in/set-72157622242099218/