I recently tried my first OSX guest installation in Parallels 8 and have been severely disappointed. I run Windows and Linux guests regularly and have never had anything more than a minor issue. Running an OSX guest, however, has resulted in a multitude of problems. I am currently running a Mountain Lion host and Mountain Lion guest, but have also tried running a Lion guest and experienced the same issues. I am running an early 2011 MacBook Pro and all my other guest operating systems continue to function just fine.
1) Resuming a suspended OSX guest causes applications to go "haywire". I will try to be as specific as possible, but I have not been able to isolate the exact issue. For example, when resuming a guest, everything at first appears fine, but if I try to type in the omnibar of Google Chrome, Chrome will suddenly freeze. I get the spinning color wheel and nothing more. If I then switch to finder, it will freeze. And so on. Everything appears fine at first, but when I attempt to interact with the applications they freeze one by one.
2) Graphics terrible. I managed to get workable graphics by disabling all the animations I could. Until I did this, Launch Pad would hang the guest for several minutes before displaying with no visible output.
3) Integration is completely non-existent? Of all the guest operating systems, I would have expected OSX to be the best integrated. I expected to see Crystal support and everything. Instead it appears integration support is about on the same level as a Linux guest. Really? Am I missing something?
If anybody has an ideas about how to resolve some of these issues it would be much appreciated. I am not even sure how to really go about debugging some of them. My eventual goal is to have an OSX VM where I can install various utilities and configuration for application development. As I develop for several environments which are incompatible it is impractical to make these changes on my host system.
I can live with out the integration. Terrible graphics will be annoying and slow me down, but I suppose that is workable. But the hanging after a suspend is the issue I really need to resolve.
Thank you in advance to anybody who may be able to offer some advice.
- Aaron
1) Resuming a suspended OSX guest causes applications to go "haywire". I will try to be as specific as possible, but I have not been able to isolate the exact issue. For example, when resuming a guest, everything at first appears fine, but if I try to type in the omnibar of Google Chrome, Chrome will suddenly freeze. I get the spinning color wheel and nothing more. If I then switch to finder, it will freeze. And so on. Everything appears fine at first, but when I attempt to interact with the applications they freeze one by one.
2) Graphics terrible. I managed to get workable graphics by disabling all the animations I could. Until I did this, Launch Pad would hang the guest for several minutes before displaying with no visible output.
3) Integration is completely non-existent? Of all the guest operating systems, I would have expected OSX to be the best integrated. I expected to see Crystal support and everything. Instead it appears integration support is about on the same level as a Linux guest. Really? Am I missing something?
If anybody has an ideas about how to resolve some of these issues it would be much appreciated. I am not even sure how to really go about debugging some of them. My eventual goal is to have an OSX VM where I can install various utilities and configuration for application development. As I develop for several environments which are incompatible it is impractical to make these changes on my host system.
I can live with out the integration. Terrible graphics will be annoying and slow me down, but I suppose that is workable. But the hanging after a suspend is the issue I really need to resolve.
Thank you in advance to anybody who may be able to offer some advice.
- Aaron