Vista Patches Have broken my Vista VM

Discussion in 'Parallels Desktop for Mac' started by crispoe, Jan 29, 2007.

  1. crispoe

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    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?
     
  2. rinconj

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  3. palter

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

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    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.
     
  5. Tony Arnold

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

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

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

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    Vista Business post updates - Acceleration Normal worked for me too.
     
  9. ae6dx

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

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    Edit VM
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  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.
     
  12. Jan Wittrodt

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    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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