eric.trepanier
Member
I was quick to upgrade to the 3.0 GA when it became available and I was able to successfully run my Windows Vista Ultimate Boot Camp partition. I even managed to run Quake III Arena very smoothly in a VM on my MacBook which blew my away. So far so good.
This morning however, I have been unable to successfully start-up my Vista Boot Camp VM. It systematically freezes at some point after I enter my password and while it is finishing-up loading my desktop (the Vista VM freezes -- not the Parallels application). I'll see my Windows Vista desktop, start menu. I can tell it's still finishing up the startup sequence as the animated Vista wait spinning wheel pointer icon is displaying. All of a sudden, the icon (and the whole desktop) freezes and I can't do anything else in the VM. The fans quickly start kicking in as the Parallels app uses 100% CPU.
At that point, I can use Parallels menu to invoke Action | Reset or Action | Stop to restart the VM but the same thing happens over and over if I try restarting.
I rebooted back into the native Windows Boot Camp and after the required ACPI hardware detection and reboot (whatever that is - it is annoying), the Vista Boot Camp works perfectly - no freeze. I reboot back into Mac, launch Parallels and the Vista Boot Camp VM and I get the same freeze at the same point.
So far, I tried:
- Windows Vista Safe Boot (it works but is obviously not very useful)
- Disabled Parallels Networking Support (still freezes at same point)
- Disabled Intel VT-x support (still freezes at same point)
- Tried Full Screen, Windowed and Coherence startup modes (still freezes at same point)
Needless to say this is pretty bad, though I am relieved that there appears to be no damage to my actual native Boot Camp partition thus far.
How can I tell what is causing the freeze and am I the only one experiencing this?
This morning however, I have been unable to successfully start-up my Vista Boot Camp VM. It systematically freezes at some point after I enter my password and while it is finishing-up loading my desktop (the Vista VM freezes -- not the Parallels application). I'll see my Windows Vista desktop, start menu. I can tell it's still finishing up the startup sequence as the animated Vista wait spinning wheel pointer icon is displaying. All of a sudden, the icon (and the whole desktop) freezes and I can't do anything else in the VM. The fans quickly start kicking in as the Parallels app uses 100% CPU.
At that point, I can use Parallels menu to invoke Action | Reset or Action | Stop to restart the VM but the same thing happens over and over if I try restarting.
I rebooted back into the native Windows Boot Camp and after the required ACPI hardware detection and reboot (whatever that is - it is annoying), the Vista Boot Camp works perfectly - no freeze. I reboot back into Mac, launch Parallels and the Vista Boot Camp VM and I get the same freeze at the same point.
So far, I tried:
- Windows Vista Safe Boot (it works but is obviously not very useful)
- Disabled Parallels Networking Support (still freezes at same point)
- Disabled Intel VT-x support (still freezes at same point)
- Tried Full Screen, Windowed and Coherence startup modes (still freezes at same point)
Needless to say this is pretty bad, though I am relieved that there appears to be no damage to my actual native Boot Camp partition thus far.
How can I tell what is causing the freeze and am I the only one experiencing this?