I suspended my Windows 7 VM and it has stalled. The OS window is black and the "Parallels Vitual Machines" window has now got an endless spinning progress circle going round and round. I removed the .pvm file and restarted Parallels. The missing VM symbol appears ( red circle with diagonal red line ). Double click symbol and choose to locate a back version of the VM. After acepting I get warning screen popping up: "Unable to perform the action because the virtual machine is busy. The virtual machine is currently processing operations initialized by another user. Try later." OK is the only option. I repeat this and and opt out to remove the the VM and get the same Warning message as above. I tried replacing all the files from my backup HD to no avail. This seems bad. I am trying to avoid re-installing Parallels. MacPro 2.66MHz, MacOS10.5.8. Parallels 4.0.3810
After shutting down my MacPro twice. I tried my luck and started Parallels again. It had fixed itself. the spinning wheel had disappeared. I pointed it to my .pvm file and off it went booting it up.