iMac Sleep Crashes VM

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dentate

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I am running an XP SP2 VM on an iMac 20" 256 VRAM 2GB RAM. When the host went to sleep, the VM "hung" and needed to be force quit. After the force quit, when I opened the VM again it told me that another instance of the VM was already running. I then quit that one, and was finally able to start it again normally.
 
If I leave the MBP 2 -( XP SP2 - OS 10.4.6 - Beta-4 - 512 Mb VM -1 GB for parallels) until it goes to sleep and leave it asleep for several minutes. When awaken, the screen flashes the XP windows, goes black with the windows logo screen saver and vm freezes. OS X and Parallels is alive until I restart the VM or try to stop VM. Parallels gives you the spinning beach ball of Force Quit. If I put the computer to sleep or let it go to sleep and awaken it within a couple of minutes, it is fine, it must set for about 15 minutes to freeze. I will try turning off the XP screen saver and see if that is causing the problem.
 
Same symptoms here, Parallels freezes after lengthy sleep.

MBP, OS X 10.4.5, Parallels Beta4, 512 MB VM, WinXP SP2 guest OS with all security updates.
 
I set the screen saver in XP to something like 300 minutes and I have not had the problem again but it has only been a day.
 
Same problem here, MiniMac/Duo. The sceensaver didn't seem to be running, but I will check it and turn all that + energy saver (in windows) off. This happened when VM was Win2000 Or XP.
I noticed that it was running in "Intel VT-x" before i left this morning, and when I came back many hours later, it was in "Software mode 0" (with the Win2000 VM dead+unresponsive, but Parallels.app running fine).
 
dentate said:
I am running an XP SP2 VM on an iMac 20" 256 VRAM 2GB RAM. When the host went to sleep, the VM "hung" and needed to be force quit. After the force quit, when I opened the VM again it told me that another instance of the VM was already running. I then quit that one, and was finally able to start it again normally.
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Make sure sound is disabled. There is a problem described in other posts where VMs crash when sleeping/resuming if sound is enabled.
 
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