Vista Patches Have broken my Vista VM
 

The patches released (Jan 28 2007) from Microsoft for Vista Enterprise have broken my parallels instance. It now just freezes on boot. Has anyone seen this issue?

I had the same problem with vista business. Don't install any update for the time being.

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[QUOTE=rinconj]I had the same problem with vista business. Don't install any update for the time being.

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No problems with the updates in Vista Ultimate and Parallels 1970.

I have this same problem.

Vista works great until I do updates. Then it fails to start.

I have Vista Business/Parallels Build 3120 FYI.

I'm also seeing this problem now. Bleh - Vista was too slow to be useful for what I need anyway - back to XP :)

Try changing the acceleration from High to Normal. This fixed it for me after I installed the Vista updates. Weird bug though.

Thanks. Changing acceleration from High to Normal seems to have solved the problem for me as well. :)

Vista Business post updates - Acceleration Normal worked for me too.

Where is the acceleration setting? I don't see it.

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works finally.
 

I too had trouble installing the Vista auto updates. I would hand on restart, the activity monitor showed Parallels was running 105% most of the time, but the drive icon on Parallels stopped showing any action, so I paused and unpaused the virtual machine a few times to no avail. I then suspended it, put my macbook to sleep and I went to bed. in the morning, I un-suspended it (is that a word?) and it started right up without any problems. I didn't know about the acceleration trick, so mine is still on defaults. Hope this helps someone.

[QUOTE=crispoe]The patches released (Jan 28 2007) from Microsoft for Vista Enterprise have broken my parallels instance. It now just freezes on boot. Has anyone seen this issue?[/QUOTE]

I had the same problem and solved it with setting the hardware acceleration to 'normal'. After build 3150 was released today I tried setting it back to high and had no problems so far. So the problem seems to be finally solved once and for all.