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fishrain

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Yesterday I wanted to start Paralells but then,first time ever, Mac Os X crashed and I had to push the POWER button of my iMac more than 5 seconds to finish Mac OS X.

After rebooting Mac Os X, I also tried to restart my WinXP in Paralells.... but now I always get the following error message:

"Virtual machine cannot be started because of the following problem:

Parallels Desktop is unable to access the virtual hard disk image file /Users/Rainer/Documents/Parallels/winxp/winxp.hdd. The file is used by other application."

I don't understand this because the .hdd-file isn't used by another application !!!!

In the folder with the paralells image-files there is a .hdd-file and a .pvs-file

Does anyone knows how to restart my VM ???

Thanx for help...

fishrain
 
which version of Parallels?

i had this with a beta last year
and posted the fix from support on these boards
try a search

Hugh W
 
Hi!

Its Paralells Desktop for Mac 3.0 (Build 4560)

Can you give me a keyword for the search !!??

Thanx

fishrain
 
Hello John

I removed the .lck-file.

after that I tried starting the VM. It failed...I got the following Error Message:

"Parallels Desktop is unable to access the virtual hard disk image file /Users/Rainer/Documents/Parallels/winxp/winxp.hdd. The file is corrupted."

Then I tried this solution http://kb.parallels.com/entry/64/547/

..but in my virtual machine folder (its called "winxp") I can't find ".sav" and ".mem" files !!!?

The content of my virtual machine folder:

winxp.hdd
winxp.pvs
Folder called "Windows Disks"

Hope there's a solution !!??

Thanx

fishrain
 
everything works again...

Fortunately I had a backup of the DiskDescriptor.xml-file. The bad one was empty...

I replaced the bad one with the backup-file (without editing anything of the content)...and now my VM starts again

Thanx for help

fishrain
 
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