Revit 2010 on Win 7 in Parallels VM crashes when clicking on menu

[blake.209867]

This just started happening, and I'm not sure why. I cannot go into the menu by clicking on the "R" or Revit will crash. I am running Win 7 on a Parallels VM on a quad core Mac Pro with 8 GB of Ram and Snow Leopard. I found this KB http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=15003267&linkID=9243099&CMP=OTC-RSSSUP01 article on Autodesk's website, but I have shared folders disabled, so I'm not sure if that is the problem. My wife also has this problem, but she is running winxp on a Vmware Fusion VM on a Macbook Pro. Anyone else experience this?

[rkitect]

I am running Win7 Ultimate x64 on Virtualbox with no problems on a quad core MBP, 4GB Ram, 512mb nVidiaGPU. It's only sluggish after waking up and I can't use hardware acceleration. These are the only issues I've had. When I was using Parallels 4 with Revit 2010 in Windows Vista and 7 it always took about 30 seconds for it to find any shared folder locations and would often crash. So I switched to VMWare, and then ultimately to Virtualbox.

I know this doesn't help directly but hopefully giving more information abotu other setups can help.

[saeborne]

When I was running Revit on a mac, I used boot camp to use Windows as my native OS.

I know other people have used parallels effectively, but for me, I didn't understand the benefit of running two layers of operating systems.

[rkitect]

I typically use VBox or Parrallels because I didn't understand why I would buy a mac just to run windows. :)

That being said, Autodesk officially supports Revit 2011 on a Mac only when it is running in Bootcamp.

[saeborne]

This has the potential of degrading into a religious argument =)