First I took a back of my virtual machine and after installing Parallels version 4 and running the upgrade wizard on my XP Pro SP2 VM all appears to have gone ok until the VM is restarted after stage 4 of the upgrade wizard runs.
After logging into the VM I am informed there is new hardware of "Standard PC".
A window appears telling me it has not passed windows logo testing to verify compatibility with Windows XP and gives buttons to either continue or stop the installation.
I just select "stop" and all appears to be ok with the VM and Parallels 4 features appear to be all working, however if I shutdown the VM and restart it again the same new hardware of "standard PC" appears.
This continually happens if I restart the VM.
I took a back up of the VM at this point and then restarted the VM again.
This time when the new hardware appears and gives me the window telling me it ihas not passed windows logo testing to verify compatibility with Windows XP and gives buttons to either continue or stop the installation.
I select continue. When it concludes I am asked to restart.
On restarting the VM, the VM never boots and all I gets is a blank screen.
Now if I reset the VM, when it restarts I get a window letting me select the start up mode.
When I select "safe mode with command Prompt" I can see that the VM hangs at the point that it is loading agp4440.sys
Activity monitor shows that prl_vm_ap is using aroiund 100% cpu
This has been reported as ticket #12064
My machine is a 2.4Ghz Macbook Pro 17" running 10.5.5
4GB real memory
VM is XP Pro SP2 with a 24GB virtual disk and 512MB allocated as memory.
The VM was created under parallels 2.5 and has been successfully used under it and then 3.0.
The latest 3.0 build in use prior to the 4.0 upgrade was 5608.
Last edited: Nov 16, 2008