Hi John, I usually just put my MBP to sleep. I only shut down completely and/or reboot when there is a problem. Usually, at the end of the work day, I quit Parallels, which hibernates the VM, then later on, I put the MBP to sleep.
Things may stay in working order for days or weeks, but occasionally, the NAT and Host-Guest adapters will lose their IP addresses and acquire private ones. At that point, even rebooting the MBP does not help.
The only USB device I'm using at this point is my iPhone; that's connected to the Mac side very frequently.
The next time it happens, I'll try
sudo killall -HUP pvsnatd
and see if that helps. Other than that, my only remedy at this point is to re-install Parallels. Is there any kind of log or dump I can produce for technical support when this problem occurs again, and before I reinstall Parallels?
Last edited: Aug 12, 2008