I just crashed my Parallel for Mac application. Here's what I did, roughly: I'm on a MacBookPro (17") I'm using a "plain hard drive". Was using 2 displays at work: one external and the laptop's. Parallels may have been fullscreened on the external display. Put macbookpro to sleep by closing lid. (May have unplugged external display before or after i closed lid *shrug*) Opened macbookpro at home with only one display (laptop's) Parallels looked fine. Moved mouse over to parallels. Hit: APPLE-Q in an attempt to quit parallels and, presumably save the current stat of the machine. Parallels crashed. Sent a report to Apple, here's what was inside: I copied my .hdd and .pvs file to a backup location, in case that helps. I get this notice when I try to laod the crashed hdd: It appears to have booted fine. I just bought Parallels today, so I hope it's not going to be crashing every day I use it. Joseph Elwell.
I had been shutting down parallels before I go home from work. But today I decided not to. CRASH It's a shame no one at parallels bothered to ask for my crash report. It's as if they don't care about their product crashing. It's a good product as long as you shut it down before putting your machine to sleep. Joseph Elwell.
I had same problem today Did you solve your problem? Today, after a mac system crash while in XP I rebooted onto my MacBook but could not subsequently open Parallels. I get the same message that another instance of XP is running. I'm afraid to unlock and continue. Any suggestions? thanks charlieg
1. Apple-Q will not save the state of the machine. 2. After a Mac reboot, continuing in the face of the "another instance" message is safe.
