Parallels Desktop 3.0

I have Parallels Desktop 3.0 installed on my MacBook Pro in Leopard, but if I run it, it reduces my system to an unusable crawl. Then, I have to kill it with Activity Monitor. What could possibly be wrong? Any help would be appreciated.

Check the virtual machine settings to see whether system resources are prioritized for Windows or OS X. Also check to see how much RAM is being allocated to the virtual machine.

I don't have a virtual machine setup. I can never get to that point. Parallels never starts up.

It sounds like either there's already other stuff running that means you haven't got much RAM left when you start Parallels, or there's something wrong with your Parallels installation.

I see you have 2Gb installed, but how much of that is typically free at the point where you launch Parallels? Also, has Parallels always behaved like this on your MacBook, or has it only just started playing up, and if so is there anything that might have triggered this (e.g. changing some preferences)?

tux,

2GB is the minimum to use Parallels effectively from what I've read, so you'd do better to add 1 or 2 more GB RAM...

Noel

Noels said:

tux,

2GB is the minimum to use Parallels effectively from what I've read, so you'd do better to add 1 or 2 more GB RAM...

Noel

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Well, that's ideal - but Parallels should at least start (not necessarily running a VM) with less than 2GB of RAM. Heck, I used to run Parallels with Windows XP allocated 512MB of RAM in 1GB total.

Is Parallels up to date?