Vista Patches Have broken my Vista VM

Jan 29, 2007, 08:20 PM #1
crispoe Junior Member Join: May 2006 Posts: 4	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?

Jan 29, 2007, 11:29 PM #2
rinconj Member Join: Jul 2006 Posts: 37	I had the same problem with vista business. Don't install any update for the time being. http://forum.parallels.com/thread6698.html

Jan 30, 2007, 11:37 AM

palter
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Quote:

Originally Posted by rinconj

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

http://forum.parallels.com/thread6698.html

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

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Jan 30, 2007, 05:42 PM #4
drapsag Junior Member Join: Jan 2007 Posts: 7	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.

Jan 30, 2007, 06:06 PM #5
Tony Arnold Member Join: Apr 2006 Posts: 54	I'm also seeing this problem now. Bleh - Vista was too slow to be useful for what I need anyway - back to XP :)

Jan 31, 2007, 03:15 PM #6
JesseRPI Junior Member Join: Nov 2006 Posts: 6	Try changing the acceleration from High to Normal. This fixed it for me after I installed the Vista updates. Weird bug though.

Jan 31, 2007, 03:46 PM #7
futurballa Junior Member Join: Jan 2007 Posts: 1	Thanks. Changing acceleration from High to Normal seems to have solved the problem for me as well. :)

Jan 31, 2007, 03:50 PM #8
valechox Junior Member Join: Jan 2007 Posts: 16	Vista Business post updates - Acceleration Normal worked for me too.

Jan 31, 2007, 03:58 PM #9
ae6dx Member Join: Jan 2007 Posts: 82	Where is the acceleration setting? I don't see it.

Jan 31, 2007, 04:33 PM #10
valechox Junior Member Join: Jan 2007 Posts: 16	Edit VM Leave list entry on Options Advanced tab

Feb 1, 2007, 01:34 PM #11
Ammon Junior Member Join: Feb 2007 Posts: 2	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.

Feb 1, 2007, 01:34 PM

#11

Ammon
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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.

Feb 1, 2007, 03:29 PM

#12

Jan Wittrodt
Member

Join: Apr 2006
Posts: 44

Quote:

Originally Posted by 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?

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.

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