network is solid for me hi, My experience is different to yours: I have had network connections shared (sharing the airport connection) and also had independent wired connections to VMs running Windows 7 and Windows 2008R2 without any glitches. did you experience network issues with the host machine at the same time? how is your guest network configured? Not knowing anything more, you could try generating a new MAC, change to a different network connection type and see how you go. I had issues with shared Vs. Bridged which turned out to be an issue with the internet uplink not the computer. Have you checked for updates for Parallels and your host? good luck, Duncan
Thanks for the reply... When this happens the host is fine. To resolve I have to change from "shared" to "default" adapter in the config. This morning I tried generating a new MAC and am currently using shared. The VM is Windows 7 and my Parallels is up to date. We'll see how it goes.
Well that didn't take long... network dropped in my VM while the host was fine. Argh!!! Is there a log file soewhere to look at and see what might be happening here?
I don't know if this issue was ever solved for you or not, but I went back and forth with support for weeks on this. We followed all the steps in http://kb.parallels.com/en/8978 (which you should also do to make sure there aren't other issues) - which by itself didn't seem to solve my particular problem, but ALSO did one additional key thing that I think was the answer: Went into the properties of the Intel MT network adapter (inside device manager), then went to the Advanced tab, and set 'Link Speed and Duplex' to something that is NOT 'Autonegotiate'. I've used both '1000Mbps Full Duplex' and '100Mbps Full Duplex', and both seem to prevent the network drops I personally saw, anyway. Something to try...
