Prevent parallels from locking windows VM when OSX locks?

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I have my windows 7 vm configured to never lock. No screensaver, and no display time out. Every time OSX locks, after my 10 minute time out, the windows 7 vm locks as well. Its really annoying to have to type in my account password twice, and on top of that the windows 7 vm is unresponsive for a good 20 seconds after unlocking. I dont know if parallels puts it in some kind of weird quasi-suspended state but its really annoying. Any way to disable this?
 
that is odd, because i do not have this problem... no matter what my mac is doing as long as it hasn't gone to sleep windows is always running and unlocked. have you checked to make sure that not only is the screen saver off, but hibernate is turned off as well?
 
to be sure, i meant hibernate in windows, not in os x. i noticed that parallels created their own power plan though turning off the display and sleeping were set to never for both battery and plugged in options...

also in the VM configuration i set Optimization -> Power to "Better Performance" instead of "Longer Battery Life"
 
found a workaround, but did you find solutions?

I have the same problem. Parallels 8, bought January 2013 online so it's the newest version. I found a workaround: in the taskbar click the battery, More Power Options, Require a password on wakeup, Don't!

But that's just a workaround Did any of you get a solution to actually stop it from locking the screen? Thanks -Ben
 
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I have the same problem since some update in version 9. I don't like it. I locked the screen in OSX and when I came back (after ~ 1 hour) the VM displayed a message saying Click to Resume (the screen is semi-transparent). I clicked on the screen and I am prompted to enter the password. I don't have any screen savers on windows. Also, if I lock the mac and unlock it immediately, I am not prompted to enter the password in the VM, so there must be a timeout.

How can we get rid of this?? I don't want to re-enter the password for the Windows VM. I didn't find any VM option related to this feature.

Thanks
 
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well...I just joined this forum to find an answer to this question. Is this forum really worth looking at? Search feature doesn't find much else on this topic, and nobody has ANSWERED for nearly 2 years.
 
Clearly, no one at PARALLELS bothers to monitor this forum. I have the same issue. It only started in the last several months since going to Parallels 11. Prior to that, using Caffeinated allowed me to ignore the domain-enforced timeout and lock. Now, every time I lock my Mac (or it times out), not only does the Mac get locked but so does the VM.

This is particularly annoying because it closes all network connections from the VM when this happens and I have to re-establish them. What a pain.
 
Hello Everyone,
Try updating to the latest Parallels Desktop 11 build and also update the Parallels Tools. Let us know if there are any changes.
 
I see an update this morning. Let's see if this makes any difference...
Nope, no difference, issue still exists in v11.2.0 (32581)
 
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Just closing the loop: This is no longer an issue. A subsequent Parallels release resolved it. Now running v12.1.3 (41532) and not having this happen anymore.
 
RodB said:
Just closing the loop: This is no longer an issue. A subsequent Parallels release resolved it. Now running v12.1.3 (41532) and not having this happen anymore.
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Great! Happy to hear that the issue is resolved. Please feel free to reach us anytime for support.
 
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