Parallel tools install linux

Parallel tools install linux

Installing Parallels Tools in a Linux Guest OS

Before installing Parallels Tools in a Linux guest OS, perform the following actions:

• Close all applications in the guest operating system.
• Disable the 3D accelerated window manager if you use any.
• Make sure that you have the gcc package and kernel sources installed. If these packages are not installed, the Parallels Tools installer will inform you about this you. The kernel sources package name depends on the type of Linux operating system you use: it can be kernel-devel , or kernel-headers , or something else. For more information about the kernel sources, refer to the Installing the GCC package and Kernel Sources in Linux section.

Note: To install Parallels Tools in your virtual machine, you must have the root privileges.

Installing Parallels Tools in the most recent versions of Linux guest OSs

If you have one of the most recent versions of Linux OSs (Ubuntu, Fedora) in your virtual machine, the prl-tools-lin.iso image file will be mounted automatically after you connect it to the CD/DVD drive. To install Parallels Tools, do the following:

1. Start the virtual machine.
2. When the guest OS boots up, click the Virtual Machine menu and choose Install Parallels Tools.

Note: If the Install Parallels Tools option is grayed out, make sure that Parallels Tools can be installed in your guest operating system. To see the list of guest OSs supported by Parallels Tools, refer to the Parallels Tools Overview section in Parallels Workstation Extreme User’s Guide.

The prl-tools-lin.iso image file will be connected to the virtual machine’s CD/DVD drive and mounted.

You can connect and mount the Parallels Tools ISO image file manually. Right-click the CD/DVD-ROM icon in the virtual machine’s window status bar and choose Connect Image. Open the following folder:

• In 32-bit Windows: C:\Program Files\Parallels\ Parallels Workstation Extreme \Tools\
• In 64-bit Windows: C:\Program Files (x86)\Parallels\ Parallels Workstation Extreme \Tools\
• In Linux: /usr/share/ parallels-workstation /tools/

Select the prl-tools-lin.iso file, and click Open to connect it to the virtual machine.

Start a terminal in your Linux guest OS. Type the following command to gain the root privileges:

Change the directory to the CD/DVD drive directory using

Note: In some of the Linux operating systems, the mount point for the virtual CD/DVD drive may appear as /media/Parallels\ Tools/ .

In the CD/DVD drive directory, enter the following command to launch Parallels Tools installation:

Follow the Parallels Tools Installer instructions to complete the installation.

When the installation of Parallels Tools is complete, restart your virtual machine.

Installing Parallels Tools in other versions of Linux guest OSs

To install Parallels Tools in the older versions of Linux OSs, you have to mount the prl-tools-lin.iso image file manually. Do the following:

1. Start the virtual machine.
2. When the guest OS boots up, click the Virtual Machine menu and choose Install Parallels Tools.

Note: If the Install Parallels Tools option is grayed out, make sure that Parallels Tools can be installed in your guest operating system. To see the list of guest OSs supported by Parallels Tools, refer to the Parallels Tools Overview section in Parallels Workstation Extreme User’s Guide.

The prl-tools-lin.iso image file will be connected to the virtual machine’s CD/DVD drive.

Start a terminal in your Linux guest OS. Type the following command to gain the root privileges:

Check if the Parallels Tools CD image is mounted by entering

mount | grep iso9660

If this command does not return anything, proceed to the next step.

If this command returns anything like

/dev/cdrom on /media/cdrom type iso9660 (ro,exec,nosuid,nodev,uid=0),

skip the next step and proceed to the following one.

If this command returns anything like

/dev/cdrom on /media/cdrom type iso9660 (ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev,uid=0)

with the noexec option present in parentheses, you need to unmount the disc using the following command and then proceed to the next step:

To mount the Parallels Tools installation disc image, enter the following:

mount -o exec /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom

Note: /dev/cdrom is the virtual machine’s CD/DVD drive and /media/cdrom is the mount point for this device. In some of the Linux operating systems the virtual CD/DVD drive may appear as /dev/hdb and the mount point /mnt/cdrom . Some Linux OSs do not have the CD/DVD drive mount point. In this case, you should create the mount point directory manually.

When the installation disc image is mounted, change the directory to the CD/DVD drive directory using

In the CD/DVD drive directory, enter the following to launch Parallels Tools installation:

Note: You must have the root privileges to run this command.

Follow the Parallels Tools Installer instructions to complete the installation.

When the installation of Parallels Tools is complete, restart your virtual machine.

How to check if Parallels Tools are installed

If you are not sure whether Parallels Tools are installed, you can easily check this. Start your virtual machine and look at the status bar of its window: if the tip » Press Ctrl + Alt to release the mouse and keyboard » appears in the status bar of the virtual machine’s window, this means that Parallels Tools are not installed. When Parallels Tools are installed, you do not need to press any key to release the mouse and keyboard — they are released automatically.

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Parallels Desktop

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Parallels Desktop is a hypervisor for macOS which allows users to install a variety of operating systems as «virtual machines» (guests) on the host system, reducing the need for managing multiple physical machines. A more complete description on virtualization can be found at Wikipedia.

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Installation of Arch as a guest

Parallels Desktop supports Linux guests out of the box, but only offers support for a few Linux distributions — excluding Arch Linux. This means the installation of Parallels tools have not been tested by the vendor, and requires some manual intervention to work under Arch. If you do not wish to use Parallels tools, installation is as simple as choosing «other linux» when creating a new virtual machine and proceeding as you would on any real machine.

In addition to the instructions below, there is an installation guide for Arch Linux in Parallels Knowledgebase [1].

Parallels Tools

Overview

To improve interoperability between the host and the guest operating systems, Parallels provides a package called «Parallels tools» which contains kernel modules and userspace utilities. See Parallels Tools Overview for a list of its features.

This article assumes users want to make full use of the tools, including Xorg configuration. If you are running a headless server, you can skip over the sections relating to X.

When referring to the version of parallel tools the form is

. . For example: 9.0.24237.1028877 corresponds to Parallels version 9.0.24237 with tools version 1028877

Required Kernel & Xorg versions

The tools installer uses binaries which can sometimes be incompatible with the latest version of Xorg or kernels in the Arch repository.

Different versions have different software requirements:

• 9.0.24229.991745 needs 3.13.8 (or possibly a later 3.13.y) (3.14 is known to show a black screen and freeze the system) and Xorg 1.15.y or earlier
• 9.0.24237.1028877 works on Arch 3.14.15-1-lts (newer versions may work) and Xorg 1.15.y or earlier
• 11.0.0.31193 works on Arch 4.1.6-1 and Xorg 1.17.2-4
• 12.1.0.41489 works on Arch 4.8.7-1 and Xorg 1.18.4, after removing the PATH statement in the install script (cdrom//Parallels Tools//install), and adding «iomem=relaxed» to kernel boot parameters.
• 14.1.3.45485 works on Arch 5.1.16-1 and Xorg 1.20.5 when following this guide
• 15.0.0.46967 works on Arch 5.3.1-1 and Xorg 1.20.5 (Parallels 15)

And there are different ways to obtain them:

• linux 3.13.8 can be obtained from the Arch Linux Archive
• linux 3.14.15 is the current linux-lts, so just install that and regenerate your grub config.

Configuring Xorg

The Parallels tools installer will take care of configuring Xorg, so just follow the instructions at Xorg to install the relevant packages on your system. Install the xf86-video-vesa package to use the vesa driver.

Preparing dependencies

The installation script expects to find your init-scripts in /etc/init.d/ and will fail if it is not present. Since Arch uses systemd, create a symlink to the systemd scripts directory and set the def_sysconfdir variable:

The installation script also expects the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf . We can just create an empty file, as it will automatically be configured by the installer:

Then, you need to install standard build utilities, python2, and kernel headers: <

depends on your Parallels version, you may have to install linux-lts-headers instead of linux-headers .

Finally, create a temporary symbolic link to python 2. Remove this link after the installation process.

Installing Parallels tools

Choose «install Parallels Tools» from the «Virtual Machine» menu. Parallels Tools are located on a cd-image, which will be connected to your virtual machine. You have to mount it first:

Now you can proceed to install Parallels tools using the installation script as follows:

Parallels tools with kernel v5.9+

Parallels tools currently requires to be patched to work with kernel v5.9 or newer. In case the installation step above failed, try and follow the instructions here:

Systemd Configuration

The Parallels tools daemon should be started at boot, so create a service file like the following:

Enable the parallels-tools.service service. Reboot the system and Parallels tools should now be installed and working.

Using the Tools

Sharing Folders

You can specify which folders on your hosts system you would like to share with your guests under «virtual machine > configuration > sharing». Then you mount a shared folder like this:

Dynamic Display Resolution

A very helpful tool is prlcc . It changes the resolution of the display (in the guest — not the host) automatically when your resize your window. If this tool is not running, the contents of the window gets stretched or shrunken. prlcc is usually started automatically and runs in the background. If not, run the following (or place it in a configuration file like /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/90-prlcc):

Future work

In general, updating system packages like the linux kernel or Xorg can break Parallels tools and you will need to re-install them. In some cases, new packages will be incompatible with the tools and they will stop working — in that case you will need to roll back the newly installed packages and wait until Parallels releases a new product build before updating your guest (in the hope they have resolved any previous incompatibilities).

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Parallel tools install linux

This page provides instructions on installing Debian Linux on your Mac for the first time to use with Parallels Desktop.

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Download the latest Debian .iso image file from debian.org.

Start Parallels Desktop, then click File -> New.

Choose «Install Windows or another OS from a DVD or and image file», then click Continue.

Choose Debian Linux from the list of the operating system sources found on your Mac, then click Continue.

Specify the name and location of your virtual machine or leave the default settings, then click Continue.

The Debian virtual machine will be created and Debian installation setup screen will appear.

Click inside the virtual machine screen, then select «Graphical Install».

Go through the Debian installation wizard.

Wait till installation is complete, then reboot your virtual machine. Log into Debian VM

Update Debian environment to the latest version. Also make sure that essential packages are installed as well.

IMPORTANT: Before installing Parallels Tools and/or updating Debian VM we recommend to create a fresh snapshot for your Debian Virtual Machine (VM).

Launch Debian Konsole (Terminal)

Copy and execute the following command:

(Prompt an administrator password)

Copy and execute the following commands one by one:

Restart Debian Linux VM.

Install Parallel Tools by running the installer.

Execute following commands in Debian Terminal:

(Prompt an administrator password)

You will get an error message about missing printer driver, please ignore it and click OK

Once Parallels Tools installation is complete, restart Debian VM.

That’s it. Parallels Tools are now installed and your Debian virtual machine is ready to use.

IMPORTANT: In order to be able to use Coherence view mode in Debian Linux VM, please check Disabling Desktop Visual Effects in Linux virtual machines

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