I started with beta 4 and used every public build from there onwards. In every version sleep has had a severe problem, at least sometimes. In the early betas, the VM would die and never come back to life after a sleep. In beta6 and RC1, that was solved, but only by making the Mac never sleep. Upon attempt to sleep, it would always fail to write the safe-sleep image and then just kinda die at some point while the lifd is shut (perhaps theral overload shutdown?). Finally, RC2 appeared to fix this nasty problem and I thought all may be well.
Fast forward to now, the GA is out and my trial key, which said it will be expiring today, has expired today in that it DOES NOT WORK. When it says its valid through this day, I expect it to work on this day, but apperently that license validity range is exclusive rather than inclusive of the last day listed. So, here I sit on a work day without a working VM and mulling whether I dare buy a license. The Ga WAS working fine, but then as of a few days ago it no longer does. The sleep death is back, so I must suspend the VM and exit PD before I allow the Mac to sleep, else I loose EVERYTHING I'm working on and not just whats in the VM. No big deal on a power plug, but if I'm on battery and anyone interrupts me, I'm forced to suspend the VM every time to ensure the system does not attempt to enter sleep while I am distracted, else it wander into neverland.
Parallels: I have reported this multiple times on the forum and not heard much once we were into the RC phase. I like your product and would love to use it except this one issue. I do not mind the USB issues, and the other items on my wish-list are not show stoppers, but this is and its hard to spend the money on the license when I do not know when this will be resolved, if ever.
To assist, here is a bit from /var/log/system.log when a sleep works (Parallels Desktop not running)
Code:
Jun 22 18:42:59 Fragile kernel[0]: hibernate image path: /var/vm/sleepimage
Jun 22 18:42:59 Fragile kernel[0]: sizeof(IOHibernateImageHeader) == 512
Jun 22 18:42:59 Fragile kernel[0]: Opened file /var/vm/sleepimage, size 2147483648, partition base 0xc805000, maxio 400000
Jun 22 18:42:59 Fragile kernel[0]: hibernate image major 14, minor 2, blocksize 512, pollers 3
Jun 22 18:42:59 Fragile kernel[0]: hibernate_alloc_pages flags 00000000, gobbling 0 pages
Jun 23 10:35:09 Fragile kernel[0]: System SafeSleep
Jun 23 10:35:09 Fragile kernel[0]: hibernate_page_list_setall start
Jun 23 10:35:09 Fragile kernel[0]: hibernate_page_list_setall time: 252 ms
Jun 23 10:35:09 Fragile kernel[0]: pages 346552, wire 40267, act 136698, inact 706, zf 524, could discard act 43601 inact 124756
Jun 23 10:35:09 Fragile kernel[0]: hibernate_page_list_setall found pageCount 346552
Jun 23 10:35:09 Fragile kernel[0]: IOHibernatePollerOpen, ml_get_interrupts_enabled 0
Jun 23 10:35:09 Fragile kernel[0]: IOHibernatePollerOpen(0)
Jun 23 10:35:09 Fragile kernel[0]: writing 346332 pages
Jun 23 10:35:09 Fragile kernel[0]: image1Size 60778496
Jun 23 10:35:09 Fragile kernel[0]: all time: 8025 ms, comp time: 2571 ms, deco time: 0 ms,
Jun 23 10:35:09 Fragile kernel[0]: image 357686272, uncompressed 728985600 (177975), compressed 356351724 (48%), sum1 186f1afe, sum2 f4d21dc4
Jun 23 10:35:09 Fragile kernel[0]: hibernate_write_image done(0)
When the problem occurs, only the first 5 lines would appear in the log. The next after that would be from the start of a cold boot when I next power the machine on after it has died on its own or had its battery pulled as the only means to get it out of the not-asleep and not-awake limbo state.