v4 worked great - v5 won't even boot - DRNash--2008

Same problem here - I hope a timemachine restore will be effective...

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Wednesday, November 04 2009 @ 10:21 AM PST

v4 worked great - v5 won't even boot - klpete

I'm getting the same thing. Blue screen of death. The first time I've ever gotten this in Parallels!

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Wednesday, November 04 2009 @ 11:52 AM PST

v4 worked great - v5 won't even boot - krauses

From the Parallels forum. It worked in my case, but others reported that switching back to more than one core messed things up again. FWYW:

Please do the following:

1. Shut down your virtual machine if it is started now.
2. Set virtual machine CPU number to 1 in VM configuration. To do this, open Virtual Machine menu->Configure... and set "1" in "Processors" drop-down.
3. Start the virtual machine. This time it will boot normally.
4. Login and wait until Parallels Tools are installed.
5. After Parallels Tools are installed, it is safe to return the previous CPU amount.

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Wednesday, November 04 2009 @ 01:55 PM PST

v4 worked great - v5 won't even boot - Alan Fink

There is a support article for this install issue. Goto the configuration screen and change number of processors to 1. Start VM and let it complete tools installation. Reboot and change back to more than 1 processor if you wish. Worked for me.

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Thursday, November 05 2009 @ 05:15 AM PST