Guest OS Disappeared!

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karendesign

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I have two guest OSs installed in Parallels Desktop, Windows 7 and Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Both appear in the Virtual Machines List pop-up. Neither OS was running at the time of this incident. As I went to click to open the Windows OS, it suddenly disappeared from the list. Now I cannot open or even find Windows. There are no applications in ~/Applications (Parallels)/. The Windows 7 pvm file still exists in my ~/Documents/Parallels/ folder. The other VM opens and runs correctly. How can I retrieve the Windows VM?

Host: MacPro, Mountain Lion; Parallels 8.0.18608

Thanks for any help.

Karen
 
By what process? My choices appear to be to add a new virtual machine from a disk (image or physical) or to add an existing. Does a pvm file equal an existing VM? (And sorry to sound so dumb if it does.) I couldn't find pvm files in the knowledgebase. If you can point me to that info, I'd be happy to learn.

Ah, I guess it does! (sheepish grin). Well, now I just have to see what happened to my applications. You learn something new every day....
 
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Does the actual VM show up on the HD where your stored it? If so then go to file, then open or click on the plus then open.
 
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