I wanted to do a little comparison between running a Parallels Desktop VM and a VMware Fusion VM as it's been my observation that Fusion uses far less of the CPU to run. However, whenever I start Parallels or Fusion while the other is running I get a kernel panic. I've tried both having Parallels running then starting Fusion and Fusion running and starting Parallels. I realize that this isn't something most people would do, running them at the same time, adn I wouldn't have even done it if it wasn't for the snapshot I wanted of Activity Monitor showing them both running. Not sure which product is causing this problem so I'm going to post in both forums. I was using VMware Fusion beta 4 and Parallels Desktop for Mac 3.0
Panic.log contents ********* Fri Jun 8 09:47:12 2007 panic(cpu 1 caller 0x3DB3C0CC): bad context (0x0_01745000, 0x0_0820b000). Backtrace, Format - Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack) 0x3de46e34 : 0x128d08 (0x3cb134 0x3de46e58 0x131de5 0x0) 0x3de46e74 : 0x3db3c0cc (0x3db3ef28 0x0 0x1745000 0x0) 0x3de46eb4 : 0x3db3c0e5 (0x0 0x0 0x3de46ee4 0x3db3bcac) 0x3de46f24 : 0x3db3c386 (0x3de46fb0 0x1 0x0 0xffffff80) 0x3de46f54 : 0x3db3c6db (0x3de46fb0 0x3de46f88 0x0 0x0) 0x3de46fa4 : 0x3db39345 (0x3de46fb0 0x8f 0x0 0xffffff80) 0x3de46fb0 : 0x0 (0xffffff80 0x0 0x1003b 0x0) Backtrace terminated-invalid frame pointer 0x8f Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies): com.parallels.kext.vmmain(2.2)@0x3db35000 Kernel version: Darwin Kernel Version 8.9.1: Thu Feb 22 20:55:00 PST 2007; root:xnu-792.18.15~1/RELEASE_I386 ********* Fri Jun 8 09:51:00 2007 panic(cpu 1 caller 0x0096C0CC): bad context (0x0_00e02000, 0x0_4ee2f000). Backtrace, Format - Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack) 0x52b51e34 : 0x128d08 (0x3cb134 0x52b51e58 0x131de5 0x0) 0x52b51e74 : 0x96c0cc (0x96ef28 0x0 0xe02000 0x0) 0x52b51eb4 : 0x96c0e5 (0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0) 0x52b51f24 : 0x96c386 (0x52b51fb0 0x1 0x0 0x0) 0x52b51f54 : 0x96c6db (0x52b51fb0 0x52b51f88 0x0 0x0) 0x52b51fa4 : 0x969345 (0x52b51fb0 0x8f 0x0 0xffffff80) 0x52b51fb0 : 0x0 (0xffffff80 0x0 0x1003b 0x0) Backtrace terminated-invalid frame pointer 0x8f Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies): com.parallels.kext.vmmain(2.2)@0x965000 Kernel version: Darwin Kernel Version 8.9.1: Thu Feb 22 20:55:00 PST 2007; root:xnu-792.18.15~1/RELEASE_I386 *********
If I'm reading this panic.log correctly it's Parallels Desktop that's acting up, but please correct me if I'm wrong.
