Enough is enough

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ChristophL

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Yesterday I was notified that an upgrade to 6.0.11992 was available. An d then a journey began which let me finally turn away from Parallels.

I am a very experienced programmer using Parallels Desktop for MAC since version 3 running 2 XP SP3 boxes and one Win7 box using them daily. I always had problems after the upgrades mostly with the reinstallation of parallel tools in the XP boxes but this time it was a nightmare! All three boxes crashed with different errors:

After using backups I finally got them to work but experienced extremely unstable conditions. I am talking here about 3 boxes which were used daily without any problems before the upgrade to 11992!

I experienced constant crashes of explorer.exe and numerous other programs. Now after nearly 20h of constant tweaking and trying I give up. sorry parallels-team but I am quite confident that version 6.0.11992 will trash your credibility as a company which cares for their customers. This upgrade should have never been released period.
 
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eve of destruction

I also destroyed several virtual machines by this update and also by using the updates before. So I'll go to VMWare because such issues are not acceptable.
 
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Roll Back of Parallels

I rolled Parallels back to 11828, reinstalled Parallels Tools and then repaired the damage to the Guest Operating Systems (XP was by far worse than Windows 7 for whatever reason). So far everything looks good now. I am back to being able to use Windows again. I feel like the man who severely stubbed his toe and was kept going by thoughts of how good it was going to feel once the pain quit.

I am going to be scared to install future updates after this experience.
 
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Parallels still pushing 11992....why?

While I was rolling back to 11828, there was a dialog box strongly recommending I upgrade to the latest release instead. Since then I get pop-ups at least once a day announcing the latest release and recommending everyone upgrade to it. Why on earth isn't this stopped until the problem is solved? This makes no sense.
 
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I've been having various problems using the latest Parallels build (11992) as well. Usually of the form Windows 7 not being able to start a service, Kapersky saying it's database was corrupt, or Windows explorer crashing. Most recent issue: Windows 7 detected a bad volume on startup and ran chkdisk.

I had thought it had something to do with increasing the number of CPU's from 1->2 as that was something I remember changing when the problems started. I noticed that I had also increased the memory to 2GB, so I've now dialed that down to 1GB.

So far so good, with 1 CPU and 1GB of RAM.

Running on a 2 x 2.8 Quad Core Intel Xeon Mac Pro with 10 GB of RAM.
 
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Alternative to roll back

Even if 1 CPU and 1 G-Byte of RAM is a work around, it does not help me. I am a consulting engineer and need the full capability of my machine. The roll back worked and I did not have to cripple my machine.
 
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Me too

Just sent in report to parallels with host panic details. Am at 2 CPU & 4G RAM on a Win7 (64-bit) VM. My host panic occurs only every few (2-10) days. Will try restarting occasionally and hope for update (with fix) soon. Am very disappointed to see this thread and no recognition of this issue in their knowledgebase.
 
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