Does anyone know why Parallels creates /Users/Shared/parallels on boot? Or what creates it?

I have a ZFS volumes for /Users. However, since installing Parallels 7 I've found that the ZFS volume can't mount because earlier in the boot process Parallels have already put an empty Shared/Parallels/backups directory into /Users.

Any way to disable this, or delay it til after ZFS mounts would be great.

At the moment I have to log into a console, use a spare admin user to remove /Users, then zfs mount my /Users. All very irritating.

There are several system LaunchAgents for Parallels, but not very descriptive.

• OS: 10.8.2
• Parallels: updated Parallels 7.
• ZFS: ZFS Community Edition

Updates for Graham:

alex@smiley:~|⇒  ls -lrt /Library/LaunchAgents/*ara* 
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  797 Sep  3 16:12 /Library/LaunchAgents/com.parallels.vm.prl_pcproxy.plist
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  565 Sep  3 16:13 /Library/LaunchAgents/com.parallels.desktop.launch.plist
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  721 Sep  3 16:13 /Library/LaunchAgents/com.parallels.DesktopControlAgent.plist
alex@smiley:~|⇒  sudo launchctl list | grep arallel  
228 -   com.parallels.vm.prl_naptd
78  -   com.parallels.desktop.launchdaemon
alex@smiley:~|⇒  kextstat | grep arallel
  111    0 0xffffff7f8241f000 0x7000     0x7000     com.parallels.kext.prl_usb_connect (7.0 15107.796624) <39 7 5 4 3 1>
  112    1 0xffffff7f82426000 0x5c000    0x5c000    com.parallels.kext.prl_hypervisor (7.0 15107.796624) <10 9 7 5 4 3 1>
  113    0 0xffffff7f82482000 0x4000     0x4000     com.parallels.kext.prl_hid_hook (7.0 15107.796624) <7 5 4 3 1>
  114    0 0xffffff7f82486000 0xc000     0xc000     com.parallels.kext.prl_netbridge (7.0 15107.796624) <112 5 4 3 1>
  115    0 0xffffff7f82492000 0x4000     0x4000     com.parallels.kext.prl_vnic (7.0 15107.796624) <35 5 4 3 1>

Looks like DesktopControlAgent isn't loaded.

Following Graham's pointer to wait4path I updated com.parallels.desktop.launchdaemon.plist in /Library/LaunchDaemons to:

<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
    <string>/bin/bash</string>
    <string>-c</string>
    <string>wait4path /Users/Shared/Parallels &amp;&amp; /Library/Parallels/Parallels\ Service.app/Contents/Resources/ParallelsDispatcherService start</string>
</array>

That seems to have fixed it. At least, Parallels still runs, and the computer loads properly at start-up.

List output is this:

alex@smiley:~|⇒  sudo launchctl list com.parallels.desktop.launchdaemon
Password:
{
    "Label" = "com.parallels.desktop.launchdaemon";
    "LimitLoadToSessionType" = "System";
    "OnDemand" = true;
    "LastExitStatus" = 0;
    "PID" = 88;
    "TimeOut" = 30;
    "ProgramArguments" = (
        "/bin/bash";
        "-c";
        "wait4path /Users/Shared/Parallels && /Library/Parallels/Parallels\ Service.app/Contents/Resources/ParallelsDispatcherService start";
    );

Not sure if there's a cleaner way of doing the plist.