Friday, November 9, 2012

Parallels 8 / is really great!

Installing Parallels 8 on my Mac, so as to run Windows 7. But I ran into two, er, challenges.

1) The installer kept freezing. The solution our IT help desk provided to me worked like a charm: Repair disk permissions.

2) When creating my W7 VM, P8 kept throwing an error to the effect of, "Unable to allocate memory for VMM purposes." I dug around online and found an old thread from 2007 stating that memory allocation problems sometimes crop up when trying to install a VM while your system has Spaces enabled. Disabled spaces, and the VM creator worked like a... oh wait, I already used that cliche!

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