Problems upgrading Ubuntu 11.04 to 11.10

Hello,

I recently upgraded to a MacBook Air 2012 (OS X Lion) and tried migrating the Ubuntu VM from my older Air. After several attempts I decided to delete the VM and create a new one.

I used the new option in Parallels Desktop 7, downloaded a clean copy of Ubuntu and it installed fine. However, it was version 11.04.

When I upgrade to 11.10, I am no longer able to boot the VM. It kicks me out to the Parallels desktop start screen. Another attempt brings me to the Grub menu. I am unable to boot in recovery mode. I can boot when I choose "Previous versions" and choose one of the boot options there.

I tried removing Parallels Tools before upgrading, but that did not help. Any ideas or suggestions for something to try?

Thanks.

 

Not sure if this is related or not, but I just now tried installing the Windows 8 preview right from the Parallels Desktop menu, and it went into an infinite reboot loop. "Your PC ran into a problem". My other VMs (Windows 7, Windows XP) are running fine.

Another update: I downloaded the 11.10 iso image and tried installing that, and after the language selection it just kicks me out back to the Parallels start screen.

Update #2: I have my old MBA (2011) side by side with my new one. Ubuntu 11.10 works fine on my 2011 model. I copy the PVM file over to the new MBA, and it won't boot. One difference is I haven't updated Parallels on my OLD model (722853). I updated my new MBA to 770637. Not sure if that matters.

 

Problem solved (kinda). It seems my problems were due to using a brand new MacBook Air 2012. I was experiencing "glitchiness" in several VMs that worked fine in my 2011 MBA. In researching solutions I found several other people with similar problems wit the new Macs. All my VMs are working fine in my 2011 MBA. I was able to upgrade to 11.10 and to 12.04 with no problems. I did find that removing the tools first and then reinstalling them seemed to work best.

 

I have same problem.
I bought a new Retina Display MacBook Pro(Yes!!) and I tried to install Ubuntu 12.04, Linux Mint 13 and Fedora17 on Parallels.
But none of could boot.
By git-bisect, I detemined the cause patch of Linux kernel:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=commit;h=de5397ad5b9a
This this patch was intorodueced between 2.6.39 and 3.0 to take advantage of a new feature of Ivy Bridge relating to virtualization.
I think Parallels have a problem on handling this feature.

My environment:
machine : MacBook Pro(Retina display, 2012 Mid)
OS : 10.7.4
Parallels : Build7.0.15098

 

I've already the same BUG on my new macbook pro 13": impossible to install ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Archlinux...
The Developper: Any patch will be gone soon ?

 

Guys,

thank you for feedback, we do appreciate it!
To investigate the issue we need some technical information, so could you please reproduce it, send us Problem Report as described in http://kb.parallels.com/en/9058 and give me an ID?

Thanks in advance,
Hanna

 

Id:15734936

 

SchifanoT,
thank you!
I've sent your report to our development, we will investigate it.

Regards,
Hanna

 

Same problem here with the Retina MacBook Pro, getting bumped back to the "Click to Start" screen all the time. I reported the error (ID 15806172). Thanks!

 

I'm having this same issue on Arch, Mint, Ubuntu and Gentoo Linux on my Retina MBP. Can't even get the LiveCD to boot in Parallels. Submitted a "Report a problem..." (although my ID was lost), hopefully they'll get this fixed soon.

 

So, guys what about it?

I reported my problem already last week. I have a 2012 MBA and depend heavily on my ubuntu distros (11.10, 12.04) as I need them for working on my bachelor thesis. (By the way, my Debian distro works just fine, but I haven't installed your parallels tools on it.)

Normaly I would downgrade my software, but in this case, I really can't downgrade my hardware
I'm lucky to have a snapshot of my Ubuntu-11, although I can't install some updates.
But, my Ubuntu-12 vm is without snapshot, thus not usable at all.

Could you provide at least a nightly build with the fix?
If there is no solution yet, any predictions on when you'll have a fix?


Thank you very much!
Help would be much appreciated!

Raphael

 

Raphael
awfully sorry for inconvenience. We're doing our best, I swear. I'll keep you informed.

Hanna

 

Same problem with me. I have the new 2012 MBA...

 

Updates

So, another two weeks have almost passed.
It's getting really annoying. Installing Fedora is not working either.

I really need my Linux distros. If this goes on, and since you don't give any feedback on HOW long this is going to take (not even a rough estimate) I'll switch eventually to Fusion for good. Avoiding your in-app advertising alltogether.

//Edit:
Latest Update (released today) schould fix this guys!
I hope so!
Release Notes: http://kb.parallels.com/114343
Nice, it is working. Thank you very much!

 

Same Problem

I have the same issue - July 2012 MBA, ubuntu VM's from 2011 MBA do not run.New VM does not work unless you choose old version of Linux (2.x). Frustrating.

 

There is a new update available: http://kb.parallels.com/114343

 

The update fixes booting 12.04 on a retina macbook pro