Jeremy Gugenheim
Junior Member
My Windows 7 64b VM running under Parallels 7.0.15054 was working fine with proper keyboard mapping WITHOUT the BootCamp drivers installed - which I thought a bit odd. But I also have an XP VM which did have BootCamp 3.0 installed. So I installed BootCamp 3.0 off my OS X disk into the W7 VM, then upgraded to 3.1, then 3.2, heading toward 3.3 which is a Windows 7 specific version of BootCamp. After the 3.2 reboot all my keyboards were ignored - both the MBP built in and my Apple USB tethered keyboard. This meant I could not log in as I couldn't type my Windows password. When I tried to use the onscreen keyboard from the accessibility menu it said that it wasn't available. I'm pretty sure that I tried Ctl+Alt at this point but nothing happened. Carramba! Stuffed! The trackpad and a mouse were both fully operational.
I couldn't enter Windows so I couldn't add/remove the drivers, nor do a system restore. I tried restarting Windows. I tried restarting OS X. I couldn't do a repair install from the Windows CD because OS X swallowed the CD on insert - it never made it to the VM because Windows wasn't logged in. The BootCamp stuff I could start under OS X couldn't touch the drivers on the VM. I could find noone with a similar problem on the web. Once Windows had started, the keyboard was always nearly dead. I say nearly because shift-lock still worked and so did Esc. But that was all (that I could see) oh, yes, the Fn keys still did their usual Mac functions.
In the end I hit the Del key while restarting the VM and got the Windows boot menu. From here I pressed Ctl+Alt to release the keyboard, then F8 to enter the diagnostic menu and was then able to run System Restore to just before I installed BootCamp.
It worked. I got my keyboard back.
There is a small but. On my UK system the " and the @ are reversed compared to a US keyboard. They work perfectly everywhere in Windows EXCEPT IN THIS EDIT BOX ON THE PARALLELS SITE where they are swapped!!!
Just thought this might:
a/ Help someone in the same situation
b/ Alert Parallels to a potential problem
Hope it helps.
I couldn't enter Windows so I couldn't add/remove the drivers, nor do a system restore. I tried restarting Windows. I tried restarting OS X. I couldn't do a repair install from the Windows CD because OS X swallowed the CD on insert - it never made it to the VM because Windows wasn't logged in. The BootCamp stuff I could start under OS X couldn't touch the drivers on the VM. I could find noone with a similar problem on the web. Once Windows had started, the keyboard was always nearly dead. I say nearly because shift-lock still worked and so did Esc. But that was all (that I could see) oh, yes, the Fn keys still did their usual Mac functions.
In the end I hit the Del key while restarting the VM and got the Windows boot menu. From here I pressed Ctl+Alt to release the keyboard, then F8 to enter the diagnostic menu and was then able to run System Restore to just before I installed BootCamp.
It worked. I got my keyboard back.
There is a small but. On my UK system the " and the @ are reversed compared to a US keyboard. They work perfectly everywhere in Windows EXCEPT IN THIS EDIT BOX ON THE PARALLELS SITE where they are swapped!!!
Just thought this might:
a/ Help someone in the same situation
b/ Alert Parallels to a potential problem
Hope it helps.
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