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Kernel Panic when run virtual machine same time on VirtualBox and Parallels Desktop

Hi,


Like as the title of thread: "Kernel Panic when run virtual machine same time on VirtualBox and Parallels Desktop"


Please help me, below is report: http://pastebin.com/YpX13MYc


Version Parallels Desktop: 8.0.18608

Version VirtualBox: 4.2.16


Thanks alot!

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4)

Posted on Sep 5, 2013 10:52 AM

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Posted on Sep 5, 2013 11:08 AM

If the kernel panic appears when you are using both apps at the same time, it looks like they interfer, but the problem is with Parallels, as it appears under "Kernel Extensions in Backtrace".


I recommend you to remove one of the apps, as both of them do the same. VirtualBox is free, and it should work correctly. If not, just use one of them at the same time, and make sure that you are using the most recent Parallels version

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Oct 7, 2013 7:26 PM in response to tquang

No. Why not just use VB?

I'm pretty much interested in what benefits Parallels gives you over just using VB. Is it worth the price?


I'm also not sure how you would ever be able to maintain a stable environment with the two fighting over the same things. You apparently have one combination that works, but what happens when parallels gets updated?

Oct 7, 2013 8:54 PM in response to Barney-15E

I - along with maybe 20 other people at my company - use VirtualBox via Vagrant to create local development environments for things like Rails apps. VirtualBox seems fairly flakey, primarily in that its guest VMs can kernel panic a couple times a day. I've talked with Mitchell from Vagrant about this on IRC, and it's a pretty wide-spread problem because VB's developers aren't very Mac oriented, and one of the reasons he's developed a vmware fusion provider. Honestly, once the Parallels provider matures, I'm probably going to ditch VirtualBox entirely.

Mar 8, 2014 7:54 AM in response to tquang

Hi everybody,


I was solved ok this problem. But really just small tip:


In VirtualBox, select your virtual machine wanna run and choose Settings, then reconfig System CPU of this one: uncheck/remove support VTX

Then run it againt. If you have a virtual machine is running in 64bit, it doesn't work, just 32bit

Kernel Panic when run virtual machine same time on VirtualBox and Parallels Desktop

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