Parallels won't let me eject disk

[DavidV10]

When attempting to eject volumes (either external drives, SD cards, or USB thumb drives) on the host OS I keep getting

The disk <whatever> wasn't ejected because one or more programs may be programs may be using it.

If I run "lsof" on the the volume it's always Parallels using the drive:

M1-MacMini16GB:Volumes apollostees$ lsof SanDisk128/
COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
prl_vm_ap 96255 apollostees 62r DIR 1,26 131072 4 SanDisk128

Even though I wasn't using the volume on parallels or the guest OS. The only way to safely eject the volume is to kill the PID, but that caauses Parallels to restart. This did not always happen, not sure what changed. Has anyone else experienced this?

Architecture: Apple Silicon M1
Host OS: MacOS Monterey
Guest OS: windows 11

 

[BamFisk]

I got this same error yesterday when attempting to eject an SD card.

 

[ECG]

Same problem when I mount a NAS (SMB) on my Mac. I have to shut down Windows (Parallels) to be able to eject the NAS. I would like a better solution.

 

[JohnC93]

Same problem for both USB drives and SD cards. While force eject works this is a sledge hammer to crack a nut and encourages the bad behaviour of ignoring error/warning messages

 

[Kelsey1]

Same here. Any solution yet? I can't keep force ejecting

 

[Nemensi]

Same for me: External drive cannot be ejected
Glad, that I'm not being alone with this case. The bug seems to be introduced with PD17. It never occurred with previous versions.

 

[Mikhail Ushakov]

Hi Everyone,
I've submitted the issue to our developers. They've already identified the root cause and are working on the fix. Thank you for your patience!