I am being often ejected from Parallels

I have been using Parallels with my MacPro to run Windos in a virtual machine. However, since last week, I have been regularly ejected from Parallel at least once a day (it closes unexpectedly).
Can some one tell me what can be the problems?

Thanks in advance

 

Have you checked your logs? What Build are you running? We need some general information.

 

I have updated yesterday the latest Build which is 3214. I have also the MAC OS version 10.4.10.
I had also a problem before I made the update. Under parallel it could not recognise any USB port. It kept saying "USB device you are trying to connect to the virtual machine is being used by another application... which was not true. But after I made the update it solved the problem. But this morning again, I was in Windows, then I plugged my USB key and the consequence is that the application Parallels desktop quit unexpectedly. I lost about 15 minutes of work in Word and Excel.
The system seems quite unstabel and would like to know what may have caused that.

Thanks in advance

 

Well, I really can't help you with stability without knowing what is showing up in your crash logs and your parallels logs...

As for USB, I found a workaround to get the USB to work: http://forums.parallels.com/showthread.php?p=71216

 

Well, the problem is getting more serious. I am regularly ejected from Parallel at least 4 times a day. It happens when I am in the internet and clicking on a web site to open a link. I am wondering if it could be cuaased by the anti-virus screen I have which come from Videotron (Canada).
If you need more info on my settings to help me solving the problem, please let me know exactly what info you need from my PC.

 

I have been having this happen more lately as well. I am on an Intel Mac Pro 2.66 GHz with 2GB RAM and running 10.4.10. I am still running parallels version 2.5 (recently upgraded to 3214). I use Parallels to design UI for ASP.Net web sites and have been having more trouble lately when testing sites in multiple browsers. I usually have Firefox and IE6 open for testing while developing in Visual Studio 2005 and IIS as the web server.

Where do I find the crash logs and what, specifically, should I be looking for there?

EDIT:
Here is what I see when looking in the Console app under CrashReporter for Parallels.crash.log:

Date/Time: 2007-08-15 09:24:07.784 -0500
OS Version: 10.4.10 (Build 8R2218)
Report Version: 4

Command: Parallels
Path: /Applications/Parallels/Parallels Desktop.app/Contents/MacOS/Parallels
Parent: WindowServer [67]

Version: 2.5 (2.5 Build 3214.0)

PID: 275
Thread: 16

Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS (0x0001) at 0x01c68000

 

also, of the past 5 crashes in that log, 4 of them seemed to have something to do with com.apple.audio.CoreAudio

 

Yes ! I am also asking the question : Where do I find the crash logs and what, specifically, should I be looking for there?

 

Oh, the crash logs can be viewed with Console. Go to: Applications > Utilities > Console

Then, click on the "Logs" button in the upper-left of the window and you'll get a tree-view of all the most recent logs. Still not sure what I should be looking for, though...