Hi I just installed Build 3120 and have been experiencing a lot of problems with it. When I first installed it Vista booted without a problem. But after I installed the updated parallels tools and rebooted Vista wouldn't reload. It would hang at the Vista splash screen. I had to completely reinstall Parallels to get it to come back up. After I was able to get it back up I started having other problems. Every time I open Parallels now it starts the wizard to install a new machine. It doesn't remember my old machine and there is no way for me to cancel the wizard and manually open my virtual machine. I have run the the wizard multiple times but it just doesn't keep the settings. I can manually launch the .pvs file to load the machine. Another issue is Windows shortcuts in the Doc no longer launch Vista. In Beta 3 I had an icon for IE7 in my doc, I would click it and Parallels would launch, resume windows and open IE. That no longer is the case, IE just bounces once. I did recreate the icons in the doc with the current pvs file that I am using and still no luck. When I open Parallels it only open in the bottom third of my screen every time. I have to resize it an make it bigger. And finally, CPU utilization is very high in all the beta's and RC, when everything is idle in Windows, Parallels is taking about 30% of the CPU on each core. I am running a Core 2 Duo 2.16GHz MacBook Pro with 2Gb of RAM and a 160GB hard drive. I am wondering if anyone else is experiencing these problems and if so if they know how to resolve them. Thanks Matt
I had the very same problem yesterday night installing Vista in a VM for the first time using build 3120 (I have NO Vista experience with any Parallels < 3120). My solution was different: seeing Vista hanging on its splash screen, I tried failsafe boot to see it hang too. But I could clearly see it hanging on loading "crcdisk" driver. I booted on the distribution media (Dvd) and selected "Repair" in the lower left corner of the setup screen. Vista did some things (can't know what) for 2 minutes, then rebooted and it booted correctly. It has not failed booting since then. Is this directly related to installing the tools or is this an ordinary issue with Vista, I don't know, but it looks fixed for now.
Seeing the same, though idle percentage is more like 18 to 21% here. Really idle I haven't seen it reach 30%. I don't mind "XP idle" to consume some Mac cpu though. But 20% might be a bit much, I would have expected something like in the range 5 to 10%.
That is a good thought, I wish I could say it was the first time that had happened to my virtual machine. It once happened with Beta 1 when I booted Vista without a network connection. I ended up reinstalling Vista and starting from scratch. If it happens again to where I cannot bring it back I will try the repair. Thanks
