5160 Upgrade, constant CPU use eventual S/D

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Capt. Pat

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I upgraded to build 5160 today, after starting Parallels and the Windows XP VM the Mac computer and hard drive seem to be monopolized by Parallels. This results in a very slow machine response, after about about 10 minutes Parallels quits unexpectedly. The Mac OS activity monitor says that Parallels is using 160% CPU, the task manager in Windows says that Parallels Tools is using between 70-90% CPU (under Processes Tab). This lead me to believe that there is an issue with Parallels Tools. I have uninstalled and reinstalled Parallels Tools several times and the symptoms don't change. I have a MBP Core Duo, 2GB running OS X 10.4.10. CPU usage from the Activity Monitor is 3-10% when parallels desktop is not running. The VM is Windows XP Pro. I upgraded today to 5160 from 4128. Build 4128 had been running without problems. The upgrade scheme I used is as follows:
1. Uninstall Parallels Desktop (4128)
2. Reboot
3. Install Parallels Desktop (5160)
4. Reboot
5. Start Parallels Desktop and install Parallels Tools

Any thoughts/recommendations

TIA

Pat
 
Please provide me with additional information about your virtual machine configuration: memory, video, applications sharing status, shared profile status.
Do you use Boot Camp?
What additional applications you have installed on Mac side?

Thank you.
 
Configuration

Memory 512 MB
Video 32 MB
Boot Camp NO
Application Sharing--whatever the default set up is, Web links are set to open in MAC OS. Parallels never stayed running long enough to change from the default
Profile sharing--I'm not sure, again whatever the default is--I didn't change it

Mac Software

Office for Mac
iWork
Quicksilver
Firefox

Attached is a current snapshot of the activity monitor.

Since I've reverted to Build 4128 I haven't been able to see if unmounting the C drive in finder provides any benefit.

Thanks for the help

Pat
 

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