Okay, so all that said, in my old setup, I had parallels 4, a boot camp VM with vista, a straight VM with XP and both worked beautifully in snow leopard (minus Parallels 4's lack of Aero support for Vista.) Now, there were two draws to upgrading to Parallels 5, one, the VMs run faster across the board, and now Parallels 5 supports 7, where 4 didn't (5 also supports Aero). So I upgraded to 5, purchased 7, upgraded Vista to 7 in BC, deleted the Vista BC VM and created a 7 BC VM in its place.
I know that 7 is installed okay on the BC because it boots up fine, and runs great in BC. And I know that 5 is installed okay because the XP straight VM works fantastic. But when I boot the 7 BC VM, it crashes in bootup giving me a "Stop: 0x0000007B" error message which per the parallels website (P 4 support) is an error you get when you switch from IDE to SCSI or vice versa. But I didn't switch. Moreover, the ability in parallels -to- switch is disabled so I can't try to switch it and see.
From what I'm gathering from the parllels forum, plus the windows 7 forum, the problem is that there is no Boot Camp VM support for 7. 7 will work in boot camp, and in straight VM, but not in BC VM. And it's a "he said, she said" between apple and parallels between whether the problem is a bootcamp not properly supporting 7 problem or a parallels not properly supporting 7 problem.
There have been two proposed fixes that I've seen, neither have worked: 1) install Macdrive 8 on the 7 bootcamp, and then it should fix the issue...tried it and..nope! 2) go into 7's command prompt and type a command for it to ignore all errors, and then it should work, but even though I'm logged in as an admin, even the only admin, it still will tell me "access denied", so I'm stuck and stumped.
What I'm thinking I might need to do is revert the BC to Vista, install a straight VM of 7, and just live with that til they fix the issue. Then I'd re-upgrade BC to 7...unless someone's got a better idea (and no, buying a PC's not the better idea!)
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