Has anyone else suffered from this problem? and or found a solution? Im running v3036 Beta on my MacBook OSX 10.4.8 2.0Ghz with 2GB Ram. I am trying to set up a small test infrastructure system for a demo with 2 x Win2003 VMs as servers and a Vista(RTM) VM as a client. Most of the time (say 90%) the Vista VM goes to 100% CPU, the OSX CPU shows 107% CPU for the parallels process and the fan kicks in soon after. it stays like this. Interestingly if I start up ONLY the vista VM on its own then it behaives... Once you start up the other VM(s) then it shortly afterwards goes to high CPU usage. Any ideas?
It is possible that the processes in the guest VM's are causing it.. that is the only time I've personally seen a Parallels VM process take up 100+ % (like when I install Solaris 10, it is eating 110% or so.) If they're attempting to do some networking task or something related to one another it might be hanging due to networking not being properly setup? Just pure specculation, but run the VM's and check the task manager inside each VM to see if there are any processes using up 100% CPU; and if there is.. find out why Without the guest VM doing something, there is no reason i can think of that the Parallels process should be using 100% or more CPU usage
All that shows any significant cpu usage in the Vista VM is the taskmanger GUI itself.. I have disabled the Vista disk indexing as there is no need for that and it takes valuable cpu time I dont want to waste. sadly Vista VM is almost unusable, which means I may need to abandon showing it and use a simpler XP VM instead.
No help here, but know you're not alone. I can add though, that this happens with just 2 XP VMs. With one running, everything is fine. However, the instant VM #2 is powered on (even before the flip to bios), the host CPU goes to 100+% and stays there until the 2nd one is shut down (powered off, actually, shutdown just hangs). I've tried running with no networking on #2, so that should should eliminate a few of the most likely possibilities. Both XP installs are very clean - updates, SP2 and not much else. I'm running build 3036 on a 10.4.8 iMac, 2Ghz, 2GB
I'm pretty sure the beta indicates that it is not compatible with Vista, or maybe it says it is compatible only with the XP version of Windows.
