How Do I access My VM Configs If I Selected Shutdown Parallels When VM Is Turned Off.

[Borezy]

As the title states, I was trying different configurations on my VM machine. However, one of the configs I choose was to shutdown VM when not running, and now I cannot access my config page because I can only config my VM when the VM is not running. Can someone help me? Please...

 

[kosh]

This thread (Endless Loop if "Start VM" and "Exit App" both selected) has a couple of workarounds for the same problem. Also, this one - Parallels Desktop for Mac build 3036 Beta is available for download - similarly has some suggestions inside. Since the latter thread has 600+ posts you'll probably want to do a search for "endless loop" inside the thread.

Here are a couple of snippets from the first thread that describes some of the ways around this:

Take your HDD file and move it to the trash (Do NOT empty the trash, just move the file there temporarily).
Open Parallels and you should be able to get back to the configuration sheet.
Change your settings.
Save. Quit Parallels. Move your HDD from the trash back to where it belongs.
Restart Parallels.

...solved it by opening the winxp.pvs file in textedit and modified the following entries:

Start auto = 1 => to 0
AutoShutdown = 1 => 0

 

[Borezy]

Thanks a bunch.

 

[kosh]

You're welcome. I also just discovered (although it may be buried in that long thread...) that if you do the following from the Parallels menu:

- Actions > Suspend
- Edit > Virtual machine

You will get a warning dialog that you'll be killing the suspended VM, but it will allow you to edit the config file and change those autostart and autoshutdown options. That may be a cleaner solution.