Paul Floyd
Bit poster
Hi
I just upgraded from parallels 3 to 4, since I intend to upgrade from Mac OS X 1.5 to 10.6 soon. My parallels experience was already not fantastic - OpenSolaris 2009.06 with Parallels 3 wouldn't boot directly to the GUI, I had to launch X by hand, specifying 16bit graphics.
After the parallels upgrade, I double clicked on the OpenSolaris parallels icon, chose to upgrade (and not backup - I don't have anything important in the installation). Then I saw the grub menu. After a little bit, there were a series of vertical bars across the bottom of the screen, I heard a DVD access, and up came a "Fatal error" dialog to send a report to parallels (which I duly sent).
Update 2009-09-23
I've managed to get the VM to boot - by editing the grub entries and removing the $ISADIR (thereby forcing a 32bit boot). It looks to me as though the 64bit kernel causes Parallels to crash.
Now I've gotten as far as a command line login, with errors saying basically that "Failed to plumb ni0". As a result, tons of services fail to start, so I don't even have my home directory. I've tried reinstalling the NIC drivers, but that doesn't seem to change anything. I've uploaded a screenshot with messages.
Paul
I just upgraded from parallels 3 to 4, since I intend to upgrade from Mac OS X 1.5 to 10.6 soon. My parallels experience was already not fantastic - OpenSolaris 2009.06 with Parallels 3 wouldn't boot directly to the GUI, I had to launch X by hand, specifying 16bit graphics.
After the parallels upgrade, I double clicked on the OpenSolaris parallels icon, chose to upgrade (and not backup - I don't have anything important in the installation). Then I saw the grub menu. After a little bit, there were a series of vertical bars across the bottom of the screen, I heard a DVD access, and up came a "Fatal error" dialog to send a report to parallels (which I duly sent).
Update 2009-09-23
I've managed to get the VM to boot - by editing the grub entries and removing the $ISADIR (thereby forcing a 32bit boot). It looks to me as though the 64bit kernel causes Parallels to crash.
Now I've gotten as far as a command line login, with errors saying basically that "Failed to plumb ni0". As a result, tons of services fail to start, so I don't even have my home directory. I've tried reinstalling the NIC drivers, but that doesn't seem to change anything. I've uploaded a screenshot with messages.
Paul
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