Hi, short note, I think I was running build 3185 or 3186. There is latest now 3188 in case anyone has not yet caught wind of that. Looks really quite stable.
I tried 3188 when I was having trouble booting Bootcamp'd Windows and a word of caution: if you shut down the VM improperly, it leaves the modifications it makes to the Windows boot.ini file, which prevents Bootcamp'd Windows booting up. Also, using Parallels to boot a Bootcamp partition uses a lot of hard drive space for some reason - possibly the page file.
I tried 3188 when I was having trouble booting Bootcamp'd Windows and a word of caution: if you shut down the VM improperly, it leaves the modifications it makes to the Windows boot.ini file, which prevents Bootcamp'd Windows booting up. Also, using Parallels to boot a Bootcamp partition uses a lot of hard drive space for some reason - possibly the page file.
Have you tried setting the page file size manually in Windows? See if that reduces the drive usage? And I presume you mean the drive space on the Mac partition? Or Windows partition?
In your Parallels folder do you have a big .mem file or something like that? how big is the .hdd file if you can see it? (.hdd may only be for non-Bootcamp windows installs).
Have you tried setting the page file size manually in Windows? See if that reduces the drive usage? And I presume you mean the drive space on the Mac partition? Or Windows partition?
In your Parallels folder do you have a big .mem file or something like that? how big is the .hdd file if you can see it? (.hdd may only be for non-Bootcamp windows installs).
Yeah the file is on the Mac partition - there is no hdd using the Bootcamp partition. To save space on the Windows side, I keep the pagefile off. Maybe that's what's causing it. It shouldn't though because Windows runs fine without it.
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I tried 3188 when I was having trouble booting Bootcamp'd Windows and a word of caution: if you shut down the VM improperly, it leaves the modifications it makes to the Windows boot.ini file, which prevents Bootcamp'd Windows booting up. Also, using Parallels to boot a Bootcamp partition uses a lot of hard drive space for some reason - possibly the page file.
Have you tried setting the page file size manually in Windows? See if that reduces the drive usage? And I presume you mean the drive space on the Mac partition? Or Windows partition?
In your Parallels folder do you have a big .mem file or something like that? how big is the .hdd file if you can see it? (.hdd may only be for non-Bootcamp windows installs).
Have you tried setting the page file size manually in Windows? See if that reduces the drive usage? And I presume you mean the drive space on the Mac partition? Or Windows partition?
In your Parallels folder do you have a big .mem file or something like that? how big is the .hdd file if you can see it? (.hdd may only be for non-Bootcamp windows installs).
Yeah the file is on the Mac partition - there is no hdd using the Bootcamp partition. To save space on the Windows side, I keep the pagefile off. Maybe that's what's causing it. It shouldn't though because Windows runs fine without it.