Over the past several days I have been struggling with corrupt virtual machines. Once corrupt the only thing I can do is delete them and reinstall the VM from the beginning. I am using Parallels 3188.
After a fresh install of Windows XP (w/SP2) in a VM (using default settings - except only 256MB ram) everything looks good. No errors. I then proceed to visit Windows Update and install all the updates. Again everything looks fine. However, when the VM restarts there will be many chkdsk errors or a blue screen of death (too fast to see the error). Either it will BSOD or eventually generate various errors and simply not start.
As a lesson learned I've now started using the clone feature in Parallels to copy the VM between reboots and allow me to save time by simply reverting to a previous image. Even this has proved problematic. My cloned images even get corrupt before I've had a chance to use them and have to start all over from the beginning.
What is causing all of this corruption?
By the way, I'm using a MacBook w/1GB RAM.
After a fresh install of Windows XP (w/SP2) in a VM (using default settings - except only 256MB ram) everything looks good. No errors. I then proceed to visit Windows Update and install all the updates. Again everything looks fine. However, when the VM restarts there will be many chkdsk errors or a blue screen of death (too fast to see the error). Either it will BSOD or eventually generate various errors and simply not start.
As a lesson learned I've now started using the clone feature in Parallels to copy the VM between reboots and allow me to save time by simply reverting to a previous image. Even this has proved problematic. My cloned images even get corrupt before I've had a chance to use them and have to start all over from the beginning.
What is causing all of this corruption?
By the way, I'm using a MacBook w/1GB RAM.