Crashing Mac Processes... Parallels the culprit? Or is it a Mac problem?

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Crashing Mac Processes... Parallels the culprit? Or is it a Mac problem?

I seem to have some processes that constantly freeze, crash, restart and repeat (in very short amounts of time)... I have asked Parallels why this is occurring and i was told to ask Apple.

Was just wondering if this is a problem other users are experiencing. It seems as though they are legit Mac processes that don't like it when Parallels is running... is there any way around this?

I am more curious than anything... Performance has not been affected and until it does I'm not too worried about it.

Thanks!

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2), 8GB DDR3 RAM, Parallels 8 (Win7 VM)

Posted on Jan 22, 2013 10:47 AM

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Jan 23, 2013 7:32 AM in response to J_Semp

I just realized by looking at the Activity Monitor that this happens for more processes than I originally thought... I believe it is occurring for 6-9 processes constantly.

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Apr 12, 2013 8:56 PM in response to J_Semp

I'm running prallels desktop 7 with mountain lion 10.8.3 and it crashes when starting the vm in parallels. It has restarted prematurely a few times after installing parallels. I wonder is there sth wrong with parallels. hmmm.

Is anyone else having the same problem?

MacBook AIr, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.3), 8GB DDR3 RAM, Parallels 7 (Win7 VM)

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Apr 13, 2013 3:38 AM in response to J_Semp

Upgrade to Parallels 8 and issues will more than likely

go away. Version 7 is is unstable when rtrying to run

under OSX 10.8.

As for issues with running version 8, make sure you have the

latest update installed. If you are, you may want to try a reinstall

as well as reinstalling Parallels Tools in the VM's.

Currently, I am running Parallels 8 (Build 8.0.18483 to be exact)

and have no issues with VMs running Windows XP, 7, or 8 and

Fedora Linux. This is on two different Macs.

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Apr 13, 2013 8:43 AM in response to woodmeister50

Hey woodmeister50, it's gd to know parallels 8 is more stable and even more so coming from a fellow parallels user. Even on my 10.8.3 I'm also having issues with parallels 7 getting stuck even when i switch desktops around.

Guess I'll be purchasing parallels 8 pretty soon. Thanks for the reply!

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