On Parallels Build 4.0.3810:
I have installed Windows 7 32-bit build 7077 on a VM with 1 CPU, 1G RAM, 128 MB VRAM (acceleration on), Shared Networking, 1 Virtual CD-ROM, one Virtual HD. I am running this on a Mac Pro with 4G RAM, two monitors on two video cards, with 4 CPUs @ 3.0GHz. I run the VM in a window on Display 2. Parallels tools are installed. This is not used as a boot camp partition.
(Most of that info is, I think, irrelevant, but I hate to see threads cluttered with 25 questions asking for irrelevant specifics.)
From time to time, the VM will simply freeze. No BSOD, no error messages, just freezes. It is totally unresponsive. Parallels has no idea what's going on and can't even properly suspend the VM. (Suspending leads to an interminable loop that requires rebuilding the VM.) The only way to tell it's probably not just a hiccup is that the VM's system clock displays (I presume) the last time it was working. Sometimes I find it hours later.
I understand that Windows 7 is still in beta, or pre-RC, or whatever. This, however, seems like a pretty nasty problem. I'm not convinced it's on the VM/W7 end. I've played with a few settings (changed frequency of clock updates, reduced number of CPUs to 1, amount of VRAM) to no avail.
I haven't seen any posts talking specifically about this, though I have seen some people dealing with the after-effects of this kind of crash.
Is there some setting that is most likely to be causing this? Are there problems using Parallels on different displays? Are there problems with 3D acceleration? Networking? Anything specific? Any bugs identified in the last release of Parallels Tools for W7, or with 7077?
I have installed Windows 7 32-bit build 7077 on a VM with 1 CPU, 1G RAM, 128 MB VRAM (acceleration on), Shared Networking, 1 Virtual CD-ROM, one Virtual HD. I am running this on a Mac Pro with 4G RAM, two monitors on two video cards, with 4 CPUs @ 3.0GHz. I run the VM in a window on Display 2. Parallels tools are installed. This is not used as a boot camp partition.
(Most of that info is, I think, irrelevant, but I hate to see threads cluttered with 25 questions asking for irrelevant specifics.)
From time to time, the VM will simply freeze. No BSOD, no error messages, just freezes. It is totally unresponsive. Parallels has no idea what's going on and can't even properly suspend the VM. (Suspending leads to an interminable loop that requires rebuilding the VM.) The only way to tell it's probably not just a hiccup is that the VM's system clock displays (I presume) the last time it was working. Sometimes I find it hours later.
I understand that Windows 7 is still in beta, or pre-RC, or whatever. This, however, seems like a pretty nasty problem. I'm not convinced it's on the VM/W7 end. I've played with a few settings (changed frequency of clock updates, reduced number of CPUs to 1, amount of VRAM) to no avail.
I haven't seen any posts talking specifically about this, though I have seen some people dealing with the after-effects of this kind of crash.
Is there some setting that is most likely to be causing this? Are there problems using Parallels on different displays? Are there problems with 3D acceleration? Networking? Anything specific? Any bugs identified in the last release of Parallels Tools for W7, or with 7077?