I've been trying to get the evaluation version of either 2.1 or 2.2 working on my home machine. I had downloaded it and tried it at work and was impressed, and wanted to try it on my faster home machine that had more memory as well. Well, the machines at work are Pentiums, my machines at home are AMD's. I first had to uninstall the 64 bit version of Windows 2003 server. Then after I installed it, every time I tried to create a new machine it would just close with no error messages. This was fixed by turning of DEP, there were messages in the event log saying that it was closed because a DEP exception and how to turn it off. I then started to get errors 'Hardware Architecture Exeption', everything I've found about it says that I have to call AMD to get a patch file to fix the firmware. Parallels is the only program that this has ever happened with, and this only happens when I try to install an OS in a virtual machine. Is Parallels not compatible with Windows 2003 on AMD processors? I didn't have any kind of problems like this when I installed it on a standard XP machine at work that had pentiums. I guess my next step will be to try and install just plain XP and see if it will run under that. I've never had any problems running Virtual PC, Virtual Server, or VMWare server, GSX or workstation.
That's why I uninstalled the 64-bit version, and installed the 32-bit version, just realized that I didn't make that very clear just said I uninstalled the 64 bit version.
