Re: Mixed results with Parallels

[Bill Troop billtroop@xxxxxxxx]

Harry, thanks for letting us know that Flash was VMware - - I had been
wondering about that.


I could be completely wrong, so take this with a grain of salt, but:



I would say that if you are running W2K as the VM (as I assume you are)
and if XyWrite/Parallels is not showing all the files you expect on the
host drive, then it is perhaps related to the problem I had with VBox and
W2K where XyWrite would show _none_ of the host files with 'dir' (though
Carl's solution, displaying an externally called DIR add-on he has in U2,
does show all the expected files and you might just examine if this works
for you -- for example, if, from XyWrite, you shell out to DOS, do the
missing files become visible via DIR?). If that is the case, I doubt
there is a fix, other than to report the problem as a bug and wait for it
to get, perhaps, fixed.


The solution is to use VMware which seems not to have any problems
whatever running W2K/Xywrite. That these problems should be cropping up
only shows that we all need to be aware, whatever our VM solution, that
the version of the VM software is crucial; we should obviously make a
complete backup before installing a new version of a working VM, lest the
new version not work with XyWrite.


This has been stated indirectly by Kari, who has said that one of the
good things about the PC 2007 solution is that this VM is fixed in stone
and will never be upgraded. I really do need to try it out on Win 8! In
this case, all we have to worry about is PC2007 incompatibility with
future versions of Windows. I suspect that, for a number of reasons,
future versions of Windows _will_ maintain compatibility, but that is
just my feeling, worth very little.


I would be more inclined to install PC2007 immediately if I was not so
happy with the situation I have. I would be surprised if the PC2007/Win95
solution worked as well on my 3200x1800 screen as the VMware/W2K solution
has proved to work.


At this time I should re-iterate Kari's advice about allowing the guest
to have any access to the host drive. He is against this, because it
allows the VM, theoretically, to damage the host drive, rather than being
confined to its own virtual reality. As long as folders are not shared,
no malfunction in the VM, and no virus it may acquire, can affect the
host drive. As far as we know, without shared folders, the host drive is
immune from (or to) the guest.


I don't take Kari's advice because it is just too convenient for me to
allow the VM to have full access to the host. But it is good advice.



At 29/07/2014 17:12, you wrote:

Unfortunately, I'm thinking you
are probably the one who has more experience with Parallels than anyone
else on this list.  Isn't  there some Parallels forum -- such
as the VBox one someone linked material from -- where you could tap into
a wider pool of expertise ?


   Jordan






From: Harry Binswanger 


To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx


Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2014 7:27 AM


Subject: Mixed results with Parallels




All,


 


First let me correct myself: Iâ??ve been saying â??Flash Playerâ??
when, of course, I meant VM Player.


 


Under Parallels, Iâ??ve been able to get a very nice screen (with
Tame). See the attached screenshot.


 


But, as the two other windows in the screen shot show, I canâ??t get
out to the web. The DOS window (black) shows that even ping doesnâ??t
work, not even to reach my router.


 


Also, and this is worse, I canâ??t access more than about a quarter
of my Win7 32bit files (on drive E: under 64bit Win7 boot) from Xy. Iâ??m
reasonably sure all this is fixable, but how?