Dear all, After 1 week trying to get Vista run under parallels on my new iMac 24" I can now say that I'm rather disappointed. It keeps giving me trouble and last night I couldn't shutdown Windows from the bootcamp partition properly and after a forced quit of Parallels my (Bootcamp) Windows can't be booted anymore except for safe mode. The same shutdown problem occured 70% of the time (usually after running random programs) after installing Vista in a VM. I bought Parallels for what it's supposed to do: run Windows under OS X but sofar it hasn't done a very good job. Regards, Vincent. PS: All this was achieved with clean installs with hardly any 3rd party programs.
Same problem here I'm running Vista Enterprise on a MBP with OS X 10.5.1 and it seems ever since I've updated to Leopard, Vista has been much less stable--especially when shutting down. It only shuts down successfully maybe 50% of the time; the other times it crashes Parallels.
Hello, mrvince, 1. Open your Boot Camp virtual machine. 2. Open Configuration Editor 3. In the Resource list, click Hard Disk. 4. In the hard disk settings pane, click the Advanced tab. 5. In the Cleanup Boot Camp Partition area, click the Clear button. Then observe if you Boot Camp partition working fine. Also please try to repair your Windows Installation. lhomme77, could you please provide me with crash logs? Best regards, Stacey
The new release 5582 seems to be a lot more stable. Haven't tried to use a bootcamp partition but at least Windows Vista has shut down about 10 times without problems now.
