It’s Just Poison…

• Man, this cab smells. Why the hell does jersey have to smell all the time. *sneeze* great, I’m fucking allergic to the smell too. #

Parallels Desktop 4 has a major issues with the OS X process prl_vm_app consuming 100% of a cpu core. This obviously causes all kinds of issues.

Here’s a fix I found on the Parallels forums:

Here is the detailed steps I used:

- shutdown the winxp vm
- right click on the vmname.pvm file and select show contents
- edit the config.pvs file with a text editor
- find the Hardware/Chipset/Type section of the XML and change the value to 1 from 0
- save the file
- start the vm and select cancel to all the new hardware setup windows
- wait until they stop (usually after the ’some hardware did not install properly’ message)
- open add/remove software in the vm and uninstall parallel tools (this took foreever for me)
- reboot the vm when it completes (it will ask you)
- again, cancel all the new hardware setup windows
- delete any ‘prl*’ files in C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers (including the prl_* files)
- in the parallels virtual machine menu select install parallels tools and wait until it completes (may take a while)
- if prompted to insert the xp service pack 3 CD, just browse to the C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers directory and it will find the file it needs (I was actually prompted this way for two different files both times I’ve done it)
- reboot the vm when prompted
- enjoy the return to the version 3 speed
CAUTION: I’m just telling you what worked for me, your milage may vary… make backups!

ANOTHER NOTE: Uninstalling parallels tools and reinstalling took over 30 minutes for me; be patient.

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.: Adam