Solution found!
[Same issue, where it freezes on the green progress bar thing.
I created a new, fresh Vista VM, and it works fine. Then I mounted the old VM's HDD image as a second HDD and pulled important files and such from it.
This works, but it's in no way a solution. Does Parallels really want us to have to re-create our VMs every time they release a new build????
EDIT: New breakthrough of sorts. I got my old, "corrupted" Vista VM working again. Here's how:
Stop the VM and disable VT-x.
Boot VM, which should now work. Tolerate the unbearable slowness and uninstall Parallels Tools.
Shut down the VM and re-enable VT-x. VM should boot properly.
Re-install Parallels Tools from the Actions menu.
So apparently the in-VM upgrade of Parallels Tools causes more problems than it solves. A clean uninstall and re-install seems to work.
Last edited: Jan 14, 2007