I upgraded to Parallels 4 several weeks ago, and that seems to be when I
began noticing issues with my PICkit2. I can work from the command line with
Pk2cmd, but I'm not completely comfortable with that, as I have to keep
referring to a cheat sheet for the various commands.  I had to refresh my
memory on how to perform a firmware upgrade on the PICkit2 from the Unix
(OS-X) prompt.  So now if I corrupt my PICKit2 again, I can at least correct
it on the Mac. 

In many respects, I think I like Wouter's Wisp648 best of all.  A
no-nonsense programmer that always works in Windows or OS-X - just not
directly from within MPLAB. 

Joe

-----Original Message-----
From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf Of
Bob Blick
Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2009 3:10 PM
To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
Subject: Re: [PIC] PICkit2 and OSX Parallels

This may be a bit aside, but I gave up on Parallels. Video and
networking bugs were the reason for me.

VirtualBox rocks for me.

Cheerful regards,

Bob


Joseph Bento wrote:
> I've encountered my first issue with using the PICkit2 on my Mac under  
> Parallels.
> 
> It does not seem possible to update the PICkit2 in a Parallels virtual  
> machine.  During a firmware update, the USB port is released  
> momentarily and reinitialized.  Parallels has to reallocate the USB  
> port to the virtual machine, and in that timeframe the update  
> corrupts.  I experienced this several times last evening, and had to  
> correct the issue on a true Windows machine each time.
> 
> The PICkit2 application software is a higher version than MPLAB 8.1  
> recognizes, so MPLAB tried to update my PICkit2, causing this issue.
> 
> The PICkit2 otherwise works fine under Parallels, but it does not seem  
> possible to update.
> 
> Has anyone else experienced this and have a fix?
> 
> Joe
> 
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