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Windows 10 Shutdown Restart Issue with Parallels

Symptoms
The virtual machine processor was reset by the operating system. error message is shown when working with a Windows virtual machine:

Resolution
While Parallels Engineering Team is working on the permanent fix for this issue by disabling hybrid hibernation it's possible to temporary resolve the issue:

  • Shut down the Windows virtual machine and open its configuration.
  • Switch to the Hardware tab and choose Boot Order from the list.
  • Expand Advanced Settings dropdown menu and insert the following boot flag in the Boot flags section:
    kernel.report_hibernate=0

Refer: https://kb.parallels.com/en/123831

Other possible solutions, did not work but when using the above switch, the options completely disappeared as an option.  The trick was to delete the fast boot option.

Refer: https://winaero.com/blog/how-to-disable-or-enable-fast-startup-in-windows-10/

To disable Fast Startup in Windows 10, follow these simple instructions:

  • Right click the Start button or you can press Win + X shortcut keys together to open the Power Users menu / Win + X menu.
  • In the Win+X menu, click the Control Panel item. Windows 10 win+x menu control panel
  • Go to the following applet:
  • Control Panel\System and Security\Power Options
    Windows 10 Control panel Power options
  • Click the link "Change what the power button does" on the left.
  • The following window will appear on the screen: Windows 10 change what power button does
  • Click on the 'Change settings that are currently unavailable' link to make the Shutdown options available.
  • Untick the Turn on fast startup (recommended) option: Windows 10 disable fast startup

That's it. Now the Fast Startup feature is disabled.

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Delete File on Reboot

SysInternals has a utility to delete files upon reboot just in case the files are locked. See the notes below:

There are several applications, such as service packs and hotfixes, that must replace a file that's in use and is unable to. Windows therefore provides the MoveFileEx API to rename or delete a file and allows the caller to specify that they want the operation to take place the next time the system boots, before the files are referenced. Session Manager performs this task by reading the registered rename and delete commands from the HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\PendingFileRenameOperations value.

This applet dumps the contents of the pending rename/delete value and also reports an error when the source file is not accessible. Here is example output that shows a temporary installation file is schedule for deletion at the next reboot:

C:\>pendmovesPendMove v1.02
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Source: C:\Config.Msi\3ec7bbbf.rbf
Target: DELETE

The included MoveFile utililty allows you to schedule move and delete commands for the next reboot:

usage: movefile [source] [dest]Specifying an empty
destination ("") deletes the source at boot.

An example that deletes test.exe is:

movefile test.exe ""