5584 is cool, but the upgrade process hurt

Is it just me, or did upgrading to 5584 break a bunch of things that survived past upgrades?

Things like the automagic identification of the need to, and then successfully upgrading Parallels Tools, and network configs. Both of these survived virtually every upgrade I've done in the past, even upgrading to and during various betas. One item of note, this is the first upgrade I've done on Leopard, all the upgrades that worked did so on Tiger. Not sure it makes any difference, but it's one variable I can identify. Another is my astonishing ability to brain cramp, which might be the root cause here.

This time, upgrading to 5584 from a recent build (can't remember what it was, maybe 5560?) broke a couple of things. In one XP VM, it broke automatic screen resizing, requiring an uninstall, reboot and fresh install of Parallels Tools (which solved it just fine, thankyouverymuch). In another XP VM, the network connectivity broke. The VM can't get a DHCP address, still chasing that one.

WTF? I might have just gotten a beating with the stupid stick, or perhaps QA on this build was not quite what it has been in the past. Still a great product, so this is more of a whine than a rant, but grumble, grumble nonetheless.

 

Hello,

it is needed to re-install Parallels Tools after upgrade, because each build of Parallels has different version of Parallels Tools.

Browse to Applications -> Utilities and open Terminal. Run the following command there:
sudo killall -hup pvsnatd
Will it help?

Best regards,
Stacey