OMG, I am going to remove mine immediately...or after I finish using it...or maybe never.
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Parallels on Macbook Air
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OMG, I am going to remove mine immediately...or after I finish using it...or maybe never.
No problems here either... I leave Parallels running pretty much full time. Even when I put the MBA to sleep and wakes, no problem.
I did read the forum on Parallels site, and it seems that more than a few are experiencing this problem. Hope they fix it soon. Don't give up on Parallels guys, it's a great alternative to using a PC.
From the thread that chicken123 linked to, it looked like the Parallels developers could reproduce the bug, which means that hopefully a fix will be out shortly.
Just thought I'd add another voice of support for Parallels - it has worked perfectly since the day my MBA came home here. Running build 5584 with an XP Pro VM, and I leave it running all the time. I'm not denying that some people may be having issues, only that the issue doesn't affect all MBA's running Parallels.
Is anybody using Vista with Parallels?
I sometimes use Paralles on my MBP on my Bootcamp partition, and need to ask you all a couple questions:
- While Parallels is running the VM, the processor is constantly working, and the battery drains pretty quickly. Do you all experience the same thing on the MBA?
- With a 64GB SSD - how big of a VHD are you all setting up?
I sometimes use Paralles on my MBP on my Bootcamp partition, and need to ask you all a couple questions:
- While Parallels is running the VM, the processor is constantly working, and the battery drains pretty quickly. Do you all experience the same thing on the MBA?
- With a 64GB SSD - how big of a VHD are you all setting up?
Pick a problem report of any piece of software, take it as meaning a whole and every hardware / software would scare you.
Yep never had the issue and never kernel panic'd here either. Either way parallels team i'm sure will fix it for those suffering with the next update.
I noticed that you said that you intend on using the MBA as your primary computer, replacing your iMac. Well, don't throw out that iMac just yet if you intend on putting parallels on your MBA - you'll need to borrow it's cd drive for the MBA's remote disk!
Personally, I don't see how the MBA could possibly be anyone's ONLY computer just because of the lack of an optical drive as well as its very limited external ports.
Personally, I don't see how the MBA could possibly be anyone's ONLY computer just because of the lack of an optical drive as well as its very limited external ports.
..well that's how life sometime is. I first tried fusion on my new MBA 1.6/80 but it crashed. Then installed parallels with WinXp and some stuff and it worked all fine since..
I am trying to get the wireless adapter on my mba to work with vista. Has anyone experienced this problem?? Is their an easy solution?
Within Vista, the device manager doesn't recognize the wireless device.
As I load Vista (through parallels) - bridged, I get an error.
Sharing the connection doesn't work either.
Suggestions and Help! ? ! ?
Within Vista, the device manager doesn't recognize the wireless device.
As I load Vista (through parallels) - bridged, I get an error.
Sharing the connection doesn't work either.
Suggestions and Help! ? ! ?
My 4-port USB hub does nicely. For the optical drive, I don't use it at all. I don't burn CDs or DVDs, I just use image files. For music cds... well, my car has a iPhone/iPod/iTouch adapter, don't need it anymore.
From having my MacBook Air, i've only used an external drive once to install XP in boot camp, nothing else.
Has anyone tried both VMWare Fusion and Parallels on a Macbook Air? Does it do better with one over the other? Thanks!
not wanting to hijack the thread, but has anyone tried running ubuntu or similar linux distros on the air yet (with parallels)?
or, is there any better solution to get my C coding done? (I need stuff like gcc, makefiles etc.)
or, is there any better solution to get my C coding done? (I need stuff like gcc, makefiles etc.)
Install XCode 3.0. All that stuff comes with it. I built clisp from sources just the other day, same as on a linux machine... ./configure, make, make check, make install.
You'll prolly want to move the Terminal.app onto the dock, it drags and drops nicely; it's normally in apps/utilities.
I have both installed on my Air - Fusion holds a copy of my work laptop, and Parallels has my 'personal' XP installation. I don't think it's necessarily specific to the Air, but I find that Parallels runs much 'thinner' than Fusion and performs better. The installation of Parallels is also 24mb (main App only) vs. the Fusion install at 117mb - and that's *after* using Trimmit to remove the PPC code.
There are some known bugs in Parallels on the Air at the moment where under very specific circumstances it causes kernel panics. The developers are actively working on fixes for these, and there is a workaround that works fine for me until the fix is released.
I leave my Parallels VM running all the time, and when idle it consumes on average 7-8% CPU. Fusion averages slightly higher than this at 10-12% (though for some I suppose that's negligible). I also consistently have network issues with Fusion where the virtual adapter doesn't seem to start, requiring OS X to be restarted to get network connectivity restored.
Edit: The thread about the kernel panics in Parallels is here: http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?t=19507. Apparently the issue is fixed and the new build is in QA.
So, foltzie, what did you decide about parallels after this lively discussion? You know, by the way, about their special offer?