External Mouse Crashes/Time Machine exlusion question

[BobInIndy]

With the VM running, if you change a simple configuration (like do not include VM in Time Machine backup), the external mouse becomes unusable. Rebooting the VM does not thing. You have to shut down the VM and reboot the mac, reopen the VM, and then it is nice enough to allow the mouse to work. I have no interested in debugging someones software...but I seem to have no choice. Is there a fix for this?

My real question is this. Are you better off excluding the VM from Time Machine using the Time Machine option to exclude or using the VM option to exclude? Since the VM is crashing the mouse, I am using the mac time machine method. Any ideas?

Here is what I am doing: I am including the VM once a week in time machine to get a back up, then excluding it to prevent repetative backups when really nothing has changed. This seems to work fine. Any thoughts?

Thanks
Bob

 

[Flagg]

Hello,

have you tried changing the settings while having the virtual machine stopped? While having the virtual machine stopeed, right-click on the virtual machine int the virtual machines directory in Parallels Desktop 4 and select Configure, and make the changes there. Is this error reproduced that way?

In my opinion, in your case you should exclude from Time Machine backup in virtual machine configuration settings (logs and configuration files will be backed up in this case) and make a manual backup of it each week. Although, a specific once-a-week backup scheduled in the backup utility would be the best way to go, this is not possible with Time Machine, as I understand.