greatdecay
Bit poster
Hey all,
Decided to share my upgrade solution, since I didn't find any helpful prior posts here on the forums.
So last week, I installed Snow Leopard... was running Vista through Parallels 3 and didn't realize 3 wasn't compatible with 10.6 until I had already migrated to the new OS.
The forced unsuspension of the guest OS has already been covered so I won't touch on that... however, once I started the process of updating my guest OS to Parallels 4, it hung on step 2 of 4 for several hours.
As mentioned in other forum posts, I hit ctrl-opt-cmd-r to gracefully exit the update process & continue it manually. After launching Parallels & starting the virtual machine, I was then quickly greeted by a windows Vista screen, asking me for Windows Activation. I selected the "do so online", but received an error telling me that Vista was unable to connect, and hitting cancel would cause Vista to simply shut down. I was at an impasse. Then the stars aligned, I had an epiphany, and the following solution arose:
1.) Shut down your Vista VM
2.) Grab the Parallels Network Adapter files found here: http://kb.parallels.com/en/5808 and decompress.
3.) Use the Parallels Explorer app to mount your VM's hard drive & place the entire (newly downloaded/decompressed) pd40_net folder in the desktop folder of your VM.
4.) Shut down Parallels Explorer & start up your Vista VM again.
5.) Once you get back to the screen asking for Windows Activation, move that window aside and you should see a "new hardware found: ethernet adapter" window. (if it's not there, click "activate online" in the activation window... this should cause the "new hardware found" window to appear)
6.) Select "install from a different location", browse to your desktop & select the pd40_net folder from your desktop.
7.) wait as windows happily installs the driver.
8.) Once the driver has finished installing, go back to the "windows activation" window & select "activate online"
9.) There might be a few hoops to jump through after this point, but do so & you'll eventually get to the point where Windows will actually startup.
10.) You may get more "new hardware found" dialogue windows, just move them aside.
11.) From your Parallels menu, select "install parallels tools"
12.) Tools should start installing... and if you give it a little bit longer....
13.) The initial upgrade process (that had been stuck at 2 of 4) now starts up again... this time at 3 of 4.
14.) TADA! (...and you're back off to the races)
Hope this helps someone out.
brian.
Decided to share my upgrade solution, since I didn't find any helpful prior posts here on the forums.
So last week, I installed Snow Leopard... was running Vista through Parallels 3 and didn't realize 3 wasn't compatible with 10.6 until I had already migrated to the new OS.
The forced unsuspension of the guest OS has already been covered so I won't touch on that... however, once I started the process of updating my guest OS to Parallels 4, it hung on step 2 of 4 for several hours.
As mentioned in other forum posts, I hit ctrl-opt-cmd-r to gracefully exit the update process & continue it manually. After launching Parallels & starting the virtual machine, I was then quickly greeted by a windows Vista screen, asking me for Windows Activation. I selected the "do so online", but received an error telling me that Vista was unable to connect, and hitting cancel would cause Vista to simply shut down. I was at an impasse. Then the stars aligned, I had an epiphany, and the following solution arose:
1.) Shut down your Vista VM
2.) Grab the Parallels Network Adapter files found here: http://kb.parallels.com/en/5808 and decompress.
3.) Use the Parallels Explorer app to mount your VM's hard drive & place the entire (newly downloaded/decompressed) pd40_net folder in the desktop folder of your VM.
4.) Shut down Parallels Explorer & start up your Vista VM again.
5.) Once you get back to the screen asking for Windows Activation, move that window aside and you should see a "new hardware found: ethernet adapter" window. (if it's not there, click "activate online" in the activation window... this should cause the "new hardware found" window to appear)
6.) Select "install from a different location", browse to your desktop & select the pd40_net folder from your desktop.
7.) wait as windows happily installs the driver.
8.) Once the driver has finished installing, go back to the "windows activation" window & select "activate online"
9.) There might be a few hoops to jump through after this point, but do so & you'll eventually get to the point where Windows will actually startup.
10.) You may get more "new hardware found" dialogue windows, just move them aside.
11.) From your Parallels menu, select "install parallels tools"
12.) Tools should start installing... and if you give it a little bit longer....
13.) The initial upgrade process (that had been stuck at 2 of 4) now starts up again... this time at 3 of 4.
14.) TADA! (...and you're back off to the races)
Hope this helps someone out.
brian.