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