Been running 11 for quite a while. gave in to new and shiny 13 on sale. Something that was not entirely obvious to me. At some point in version 12 or 13 not sure which, they downgraded the product to only support 8gig of memory on VM. I have had a windows VM defined with 16 gig. so happens its session was suspended when i quit out of Parallels 11. Ran the installer and everything seemed fine till it went to resume. It presents with a
"This virtual machine has more than 8 GB RAM assigned and cannot be started." as well as its a home edition limitation, and to decrease the VM, which means you have to stop the suspended machine. (possible loss of data) or you can pay more money for the MacPro edition to gain back the functionality that they took away.
The installer should have warned me before allowing me to upgrade (idiot proofing) aka hey we removed functionality and you need to pay us more to get it back, or keep using what i already had.
I am sure there is some line item that states 8gig per vm. but wasn't really presented as a btw here is all the improvements, but we took away this.
Parallels Support - Please add something warning customers of this in your FAQ/troubleshooting/upgrade Docs etc... and pass on to the installer folks to put a check in to warn these VM associated with this install are no longer compatible. do you wish to proceed on the install.
or allow it to detect its not compatible, boot one time with lots of hey shutdown what you are doing, than change the VM memory size.
Losing Data/Risking Data Loss is never good.
Always Liked Parallels.... 
Not so happy at the moment.
Last edited: Nov 28, 2017
