I would love to see some automated shutdown support. When the VM is being terminated by windows (or Linux I suppose) it would be great to be able to specify how to stop a VM. I would love to put my VM into standby mode each time windows tells it to shutdown... Thanks Ray
. When you shutdown a guest OS, Parallels is in a standby mode. If you have multiple desktops, away it goes until you click on the desktop that has Parallels. .
*** Bzzt. *** /f/ail at intarnet That's not what he's asking (at least not how I read it)... he's asking for a way to set the default shutdown behavior of the open VM's when shutting down the HOST OS. Let's say you have three guest operating systems open, and you choose to shutdown the HOST, it would be nice to be able to have Parallels put all the guest operating systems into standby or hibernate before it closes itself, instead of doing a full shutdown on them.
Yep! You got it. I want the option to put my guests to sleep when the host OS is being shutdown, the userid being logged off, etc.
Gosh, Vmware doesn't do that after 10 years on the market - guess is isn't too much to ask of Parallels......
Suspend seems slow The suspend (and resume) a guest functions seem to be quite slow to me. Is there something tweakable to help or could I wish it was faster? Thanks
Not sure about VMWare Workstation, but GSX server certainly does. I run a Windows 2003 server with multiple virtual machines providing different services to my small business. When the W2k3 box is shutting down, it nicely shuts down all the guest operating systems, then brings them back up on reboot. This would be handy to have in parralels, but not critical for me, since I don't use my mac as a server machine (at least not right now).
