Originally Posted by
stimpy
My point is why couldn't the MBA protect itself from Parallels? Why couldn't the hardware fault when it was requested to do whatever it did to overheat and cause kernel problems?
We'd have to get a lot more specifics to compare, but the Windows kernel has all sort of protection from applications messing with it.
The "kernel problems" are not any software messing with the kernel. What jgsx is talking about is a kernel panic; those arise from hardware issues, presumably in this case the overheating. (They are indicated by a hard crash usually accompanied by the "You must restart your computer now" screen with no chance to do anything, sort of akin to a BSOD on Windows.) You could argue that the overheating protection could be more graceful, and indeed there was a fix released for a specific overheating issue with MacBook Air so the connection with Parallels may be somewhat coincidental.