Possible Causing gutsy lockup.

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mcginleyr1

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Whenever I'm in parallels and shutdown an instance of windows xp parallels locks up and locks system resources. Eventually this causes gutsy to completely lockup (mouse and keyboard don't work) I've let it sit for an hour and have it still be locked up. I've tried using killall parallels and killall parallels-linux in the console and it just idles and does nothing. This forces a hard reboot (reset button) and almost every time causes the need for an fsck to be run because of corrupted inodes. I was wondering if there is any advice anyone can give me to get to the root of the problem. By the way i'm running Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon.
 
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Ah, just noticed your reply Xenos.

- decreased workstation reserved memory limit from 1236 to 348MB.
- set acceleration to normal (was on high)
- reduced vm max ram to 248MB

started windows ok, am about to see if it locks up when I suspend - so I'll post this first! biab
 
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Seemed promising at first, I was able start a vm with win XP (which was horrendously slow and clunky) and suspend without a freeze. But I then started a different win XP vm and started surfing with Firefox only to have the machine lock up (kernel panic I think, all the keyboard lights were flashing).

Further attempts to start a vm in Parallels result in it becoming unresponsive Even after a reinstall of 2204.

So basically even with those memory tweaks I'm no better off.

I've pretty much had it with Parallels. For now I'll probably just reboot with a 2.2.18 kernel, and downgrade Parallels to a version that actually works if necessary.
 
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adrinux said:
I've pretty much had it with Parallels. For now I'll probably just reboot with a 2.2.18 kernel, and downgrade Parallels to a version that actually works if necessary.
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In the end I uninstalled Parallels. Debian etch/testing isn't supported so it's no surprise Parallels doesn't work on it very well. It's just disappointing to see support lag so much behind the OSX version, and behind other Linux distros.

Fortunately VirtualBox 1.5 works perfectly on Debian etch/testing so I'm using that now, does everything Parallels 2 does, is fast and has 'seemless' support on Linux host.

If Parallels 3 supports Debian I'll take another look at Parallels when it comes out. For now...adios!
 
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