http://kb.parallels.com/en/9719 I'm at the office so I'm not able to test it out. Does it resolve the kernel panic issues? I've been getting Kernel Panics on my late-2010 MacBook Air (2.13 GHz, 4GB) (about 10 in four months, and 3 in the last two weeks) so over the weekend I did a clean install of OS X (an archive and install didn't fix the issue), and decided just to install 11828 rather than 11992. Today I see that 11994 is available and am wondering if it's worth installing.
Ugh, I just had another kernel panic this morning after installing 11994 last night. I had 11828 for only 2 days (no panics), so it wasn't long enough to reach a conclusion as to whether it is Parallels causing them.
11994 is to fix the corruption and crashing of the VMs, not the host OS. The host kernel panics are a separate issue. I'd stick with 11828 for now, if that's working for you.
Thanks. Are the host kernel panics another known issue? I've opened up a ticket and sent my kernel panic reports to Parallels (all under 11992 or 11994). Perhaps I'll revert to 11828 tonight and see if it works. Unfortunately, I don't know specific steps to replicate a panic, and when I look at the reports for the panics I saw under 11992 (all in the last 3 weeks) I see the following: panic(cpu 1 caller 0x28f16b): pmap_flush_tlbs() timeout: " "cpu(s) failing to respond to interrupts, pmap=0x84b7a0 panic(cpu 1 caller 0x2aab55): Kernel trap at 0x00295961, type 14=page fault, panic(cpu 0 caller 0x2aab55): Kernel trap at 0x00292c37, type 14=page fault panic(cpu 1 caller 0x2aab55): Kernel trap at 0x002314d6, type 14=page fault The one I got today under 11994 was as follows: panic(cpu 1 caller 0x35d346): "udp_input: bad so back ptr inp=0x73f46e0\n"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-1504.9.26/bsd/netinet/udp_usrreq.c:407 Backtrace (CPU 1) I looked back and there were two panics in December under 11828. I uninstalled VMWare Fusion in mid-December and that seemed to help (I got none for 6 weeks). panic(cpu 1 caller 0x29415e): "pmap_pv_remove(0x9e9d7b4,0x4f005000,0x9588b, 0x9588b024): null panic(cpu 0 caller 0x2aab55): Kernel trap at 0x57bed1d7, type 14=page fault, registers: Any ideas? I'm getting different kind of panics. Note that every time the Genius Bar runs a test, the hardware checks out fine. I did an archive and install or OS X last week, and over the weekend I did a clean install of OS X. I copied over my Applications and Library folders but did NOT copy over anything related to Parallels. I "clean installed" 11828, but then when 11994 came out yesterday I gave it a shot. Can I just reinstall 11828 over it, or do I need to remove it first? Is there a way to do so without another clean install of OS X?
When jumping more than one version, or going backwards, here's what I do: Use the uninstaller that came with the version that's currently installed, reboot, install newer/older version, reboot. They did say in another thread that the kernel panics are a known issue as well, but didn't say anything about an ETA for a fix or a work-around. I've not experienced them, thankfully, so I haven't done any troubleshooting along those lines. I did have two VM's trashed from the corruption that 11992 caused. The corruption persisted even when I rolled back to 11828, and I had to reinstall the OS from scratch and restore the files from backups. grrrr... Anyway, have you tried a fresh VM with 11994? I don't know if that would help or not, since I don't really know what's causing the panics. If you don't want to go to that trouble, it sounds like 11828 will probably be the best bet for now until they can get another release out. But if it turns out that 11992 hosed your VM, you'll eventually have to bite the bullet and fix it.
Thanks. I use my Boot Camp partition as a VM so perhaps what I'll just do is uninstall Parallels Desktop from the Mac, and Parallels Tools from Windows and try running it purely in Boot Camp for now. If the kernel panics subside, I'll at least have isolated the issue to Parallels and not the MacBook Air itself. If not, then I'll get the MacBook Air checked out again.
Parallels support suggested I reconfigure my VM to use 1 CPU core. So far, it's been 9 days since the last kernel panic. Hopefully this fixes it, but I've been here before (it went 6 weeks without a panic until late January when they started up again). We'll see.
Everytime I try to upgrade to Parallel 5 to 6 I've kernel panic after a while. Normally in Coherence Mode. I use only Window 7 Ultimate 64 bit Model Name: MacBook Pro Model Identifier: MacBookPro5,4 Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo Processor Speed: 2.53 GHz Number Of Processors: 1 Total Number Of Cores: 2 L2 Cache: 3 MB Memory: 8 GB Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz Boot ROM Version: MBP53.00AC.B03 SMC Version (system): 1.49f2 Macintosh HD: Capacity: 639.79 GB (639,791,054,848 bytes) Available: 125.46 GB (125,455,638,528 bytes) System Version: Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567) Kernel Version: Darwin 10.6.0 Boot Volume: Macintosh HD Boot Mode: Normal Secure Virtual Memory: Enabled 64-bit Kernel and Extensions: No Time since boot: 1:23 This is last kernel panic. There was Office Outlook for Mac in memory, and Project 2007 on Windows. Interval Since Last Panic Report: 1860863 sec Panics Since Last Report: 3 Anonymous UUID: ED34EF0F-EFED-4517-9349-557A0467DE68 Wed Mar 2 17:42:41 2011 panic(cpu 1 caller 0x2aa588): "kernel_trap(0x7a54a964) with 64-bit state"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-1504.9.26/osfmk/i386/trap.c:551 Backtrace (CPU 1), Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack) 0x7a54a818 : 0x21b50c (0x5d4438 0x7a54a84c 0x223974 0x0) 0x7a54a868 : 0x2aa588 (0x59611c 0x7a54a964 0x7a54a8c8 0x231766) 0x7a54a948 : 0x2a09a8 (0x7a54a964 0x15e313f0 0x0 0x7a54aaf8) 0x7a54a95c : 0x36c9c799 (0xf 0x4 0x0 0x0) 0x7a54aaf8 : 0x81ec7b62 (0xf204004 0x7a54ae40 0x7a54ab18 0x2a358d) 0x7a54abc8 : 0x81ec2957 (0xf204004 0xc20c7802 0x7a54ae40 0xc) 0x7a54ac08 : 0x81ec2347 (0xcfe3000 0xde18084 0x7a54ae3c 0x10) 0x7a54ac38 : 0x56604f (0xcfe3000 0x0 0x7a54acd0 0x2) 0x7a54ac88 : 0x566bdb (0xcfe3000 0x0 0x7a54acd0 0x81ede780) 0x7a54ada8 : 0x285bce (0xcfe3000 0x0 0xde18080 0x0) 0x7a54be58 : 0x21d8ba (0xde18058 0xd9ab5a0 0x111b78 0x3e0f) 0x7a54be98 : 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Try configuring Parallels to use 1 CPU instead of 2 and see if that helps. That's what they told me to do, and so far, it seems to be working. Performance still seems decent. Hopefully this changes once the Sandy Bridge chips make their way to the MacBook Air and I have 4 virtual cores to use instead of 2.
With one CPU it's working, right now... but it's really slow... with parallel 5.0 it's faster... so the version 6 is not usefull right now