I'm starting to feel depressed that nobody form Parallels is ever going to look into why their product constantly, reliably LOCKS UP my Mac Pro.
XP runs for a while, from a few minutes to an hour or so, then every window on my Mac desktop becomes unresponsive. The mouse still moves, iTunes keeps playing the song it is on until the end, but no further desktop interaction is possible.
Once the Mac Pro is in this state, the only options are to SSH into it (which continues to work) or to hold the power key down and reset the whole machine. Once I SSH from another machine I can see that "top" reports one or two processes in "stuck" state, but I have no idea which ones they are and have had no luck in restoring the desktop to a responsive condition.
I would gladly allow someone from Parallels to connect to the machine when it is locked, but no-one has responded to forum messages or email. So far this product has looked promising, but every time I start it up it results in me having to shut down the Mac Pro due to this type of crash. The problem sometimes takes a while to appear, but it ALWAYS appears.
Hasn't anyone else experienced this? I know at least one person posted a description of similar symptoms, but no clear resolution of the issue. I would so much like to begin to rely of Parallels, but for now the only reliable thing about it is that it will lock up my whole Mac Pro.
Rick
Last edited: Oct 18, 2006