XP VM boots to black screen, stalls

TomBridge

Bit poster
Hello,

I have a Parallels 5 install (most recent build) that will not launch its Windows XP VM. The machine was suspended for some time, and when resumed did not properly come up. After a forced restart of the VM, I cannot proceed in Safe Mode, Safe mode with prompt, or Last Known Config, let alone in regular mode. The screen just shows show black, with a white mouse cursor in the center.

Here is what I have tried so far:

- Reinstall of Parallels the easy way
- Full removal via command line of Parallels and reinstall of the application
- Create a new VM and copy the .hdd from the old system into the new VM and select it as the boot disk.
- Attempted to reinstall parallels tools from the black screen (unsuccessful despite waiting 30 minutes)

I would love some guidance as to what else to try in this situation. For now I am building another VM that I can try to port the data to from the old VM. Help would be nice.
 
Hi,

I do have the exact same problem with my V4 and Windows XP... which untill now, was working fine....

Did you get a solution to solve this issue ?

Thanks

Raphaël
 
I just had this problem after rebooting Mac. I think problem was Mac grabbed the dvd and wouldn't let VM get it. I have had lots of problems with dvd. I configured and disconnected dvd before startup and things worked.
 
Back
Top