Parallels VM Hangs During Resume After Transferring to New Location
With Parallels 15 on macOS Big Sur, I was having an issue resuming the VMs that I transferred to my new external hard drive. I found out that you are suppose to shut down the VM before you move them. Oops. To resolve the issue, thankfully, was simple. After praying about it, I realized that the pvm file was a package. I then opened the package in Finder. I analyzed the files names and removed the ones that seemed like it stored "resume" state information. I then double-checked my hypothesis by comparing the directory contents to another VM that was shut down properly. I restarted Parallels and was then able to start the VMs that were causing a kernel panic and hanging during resume. Steps: Context click the VM file in question (right-click) Click "Show Package Contents" Remove three files *.mem like: {8164553e-0c7f-429e-89a3-2cb00a161604}.mem config.sav suspended.png Close the Finder window Restart the Parallels Control Center Launch the target VM Give thanks to