I was quick to upgrade to the 3.0 GA when it became available and I was able to successfully run my Windows Vista Ultimate Boot Camp partition. I even managed to run Quake III Arena very smoothly in a VM on my MacBook which blew my away. So far so good. This morning however, I have been unable to successfully start-up my Vista Boot Camp VM. It systematically freezes at some point after I enter my password and while it is finishing-up loading my desktop (the Vista VM freezes -- not the Parallels application). I'll see my Windows Vista desktop, start menu. I can tell it's still finishing up the startup sequence as the animated Vista wait spinning wheel pointer icon is displaying. All of a sudden, the icon (and the whole desktop) freezes and I can't do anything else in the VM. The fans quickly start kicking in as the Parallels app uses 100% CPU. At that point, I can use Parallels menu to invoke Action | Reset or Action | Stop to restart the VM but the same thing happens over and over if I try restarting. I rebooted back into the native Windows Boot Camp and after the required ACPI hardware detection and reboot (whatever that is - it is annoying), the Vista Boot Camp works perfectly - no freeze. I reboot back into Mac, launch Parallels and the Vista Boot Camp VM and I get the same freeze at the same point. So far, I tried: - Windows Vista Safe Boot (it works but is obviously not very useful) - Disabled Parallels Networking Support (still freezes at same point) - Disabled Intel VT-x support (still freezes at same point) - Tried Full Screen, Windowed and Coherence startup modes (still freezes at same point) Needless to say this is pretty bad, though I am relieved that there appears to be no damage to my actual native Boot Camp partition thus far. How can I tell what is causing the freeze and am I the only one experiencing this?
I have exactly the same problem. I did a bug report from within the Parallels application and also sent a support email. However, I'm not holding much hope of a response since I'm on a 15-day trial license (not a great start really but inevitable with this kind of cutting-edge software). I'm glad I'm not the only one experiencing this. I've got a new MBP (Santa Rosa) and have tried various things: - Re-installing Vista completely - Preventing Windows Updates from running during installation (just-in-case an MS update broke something) - Booting in to safe mode when using Parallels (this seems to work but not very useful...) Anyone else experiencing this or have a solution?
Apparently, it is a conflict with the new Boot Camp 1.3 drivers. Indeed, when I installed the new 3.0 GA, I was still running my Vista Boot Camp with the 1.2 drivers. I only installed the 1.3 drivers yesterday evening (under native boot) and did not try restarting the VM in Parallels after. It is only this morning that I rebooted the VM with the new 1.3 drivers for the first time and witnessed the freeze. I suppose we can all look forward to a quick Parallels 4126 release within the next few days so I am not too worried. That'll teach me to wait a bit more before applying BC driver updates next time...
