Beware of Parallel 5 or VMWare

[matelot]

I have a working system then I tried installing Parallel 5 with my Win 7. Didn't work so I downloaded a demo copy of VMWare and tried again. Didn't work either but this time it froze my machine. When I rebooted, it gets stuck at the apple logo screen (I removed the -v option). Now my machine is not booting into SL. I am going to reinstall SL and Win7 with dual-boot mode instead of using Parallel or VMware.

Be cautious if you are playing with Virtualization s/w.

 

[Lnx2Mac]

Even having been a paying customer of VMWare on Linux, when I switched to OSX, I tried the [free] VirtualBox...

It works wonderfully on my MBP (Leo), and just tested it on the HackPro SL 10.6.2 I'm putting together.

All seems OK, you might want to check it out...

 

[Benski]

That's interesting. I've had problems with vmware too, it usually works to run windows, but the system becomes less reliable. I recently updated to the new jmicron and I'm running windows fine. (knock on wood).

 

[brickhead]

I switched also to Virtual box when vmware stopped being free and I'm in love with it.

 

[matelot]

Hum..I'll try again and see if it passes this time. One interesting note, I installed win7 on a separate partition but have had a lot of problems with the death blue screen. When it comes to install updates, it kept crashing. I removed the network cable and tweaked the BIOS RAM voltage and it appeared to stabilize. I don't know if it has something to do with it or not.
Will let you know.