USB disk drive issue with V4 build 3540

Curtis Conner · Dec 15, 2008

I am running Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Parallels V4 build 3450. I have a WD 300GB disk drive formatted using NTFS. I am trying to copy a VM from my MAC partition (over a SMB network) connection.

I was able to do this in version 3.0 of Parallels but the new V4 version seems to hang during a copy. I have tried using both the explorer and xcopy to do the copy.

How can i get this fixed?

John@Parallels · Dec 16, 2008

Is it big file, or too many files?

Curtis Conner · Dec 16, 2008

No, i am trying to copy over a Parallels directory e.g. an old VM that i want to save. it hangs on small and large files the same. the directory that it is stoping on is the harddrive0

John@Parallels · Dec 17, 2008

Antivirus on Windows side?

Curtis Conner · Dec 17, 2008

No, just Windows XP SP 3 real clean system with no AV or Windows Defender running

John@Parallels · Dec 19, 2008

Try following
1. Enable Samba on Mac OS and Share folder where VM is located
http://lifehacker.com/software/mac-os-x-leopard/leopard-simplifies-networking-317033.php
2. Try to copy, check is that still hangs

Curtis Conner · Dec 20, 2008

nope still hangs. This worked just fine in V3

Curtis Conner · Dec 20, 2008

A bit more info, when it locks prl_vm_app is pegged at 100% cpu

Curtis Conner · Dec 23, 2008

OK guys, this not going anywhere. Now when i work for more than 1 hour in the VM it just hangs the complete VM.

John@Parallels · Dec 28, 2008

Curtis Conner said:
OK guys, this not going anywhere. Now when i work for more than 1 hour in the VM it just hangs the complete VM.

If you cannot copy through Samba, it is something wrong in Windows, in this case nothing from Parallels is involved,
Please backup VM, and try Windows repair