Sometimes, on my Mac Pro, Windows Vista will stop responding to any user input - appearing "frozen" - until I command-tab to some other program on my Mac, at which point Vista instantly becomes responsive again (the screen updates itself immediately as the switch to another program occurs). This can even happen upon boot or shutdown. I haven't noticed it happening when using a Ubuntu Linux VM, but I don't use Linux quite as much on this Mac. Any notion of what's going on? I have no apparent hardware problems within the Windows device manager, and everything else works dandily... Drew
If figured out what the problem was - I had connected an external drive through eSATA. Apparently, Parallels doesn't much care for eSATA drives hooked up to the onboard SATA controller (using the spare plugs on the Mac Pro logic board). Can the Parallels team look at fixing that in an upcoming release? Thanks! Drew
