Parallels tools on linux?? how do i do it?

[likemyorbs]

im running the latest parallels version, and i know it supports linux because it gives you instructions on how to install parallels tools, but theyre very vague and require that you do it through terminal. im not linux saavy and have no idea what to type into terminal. i know people have successfully done this. im running fedora 10, can someone helped me out? ive searched the whole web

 

[likemyorbs]

anyone?

 

[dukebound85]

i had a similar problem when using ubuntu

i installed it but it never took effect in a sense

aggravated the hell out of me and couldnt figure out what i was doing wrong

 

[likemyorbs]

yeah its really annoying, i just want linux to be full screen. i really enjoying using it but thats really irritating

 

[dukebound85]

seriously, anyone know how?

 

[plinden]

For Ubuntu:
From the menu bar, select Virtual Machine -> Install Parallels Tools ...

Ignore the message and click Continue. You should see a disk icon on your Ubuntu desk top called Parallels Tools. Ignore that too.

Open a Terminal and type:

cd /cdrom
sudo sh install

Enter your password, click through the install process and reboot when it's finished.

Edit:
For Fedora it seems to be a bit more complicated. Start the same way ... click on Install Parallel Tools.

Open a Terminal window and type the following. You'll need to switch to the root user to install (unless you've added your account to sudoers):

cd /media/Parallels\ Tools
su
... enter root password ...
sh install

You will likely get a message that it needs to download and build some kernel module updates. I installed from the Live CD so I didn't have gcc, so I got an error message regarding missing items. I exited the install and typed:

yum install gcc

When that finished I ran "sh install" again, it downloaded all modules, then I rebooted.

I also got a message about SELinux possibly affecting operation of Parallels Tools. I didn't modify its settings, but all seems to work fine. Edit 2: although you can switch to full screen, it doesn't modify the resolution, so your Fedora is a box in the middle of the screen.

 

[dukebound85]

thanks though on the second command, it says

sh: Can't open install

 

[plinden]

Did you type this exactly? sudo sh install

Edit: actually, if you omit sudo, you should get "Error: you do not have permissions to run this script"

I'm not sure why you would get that error. Try unmounting the Parallels Tools disk (right click, unmount volume) and click on Install Parallels Tools ... again.

 

[dukebound85]

Did you type this exactly? sudo sh install

yea i did.
im pretty decent with terminal yet cant get it to install for the life of me

not working at all even doing the su command, and then typing my password says authentication failure

kinda confused

 

[plinden]

Ubuntu doesn't come with root enabled, so you can't switch to root with su.

Type "ls -la" in /cdrom directory and see what the permissions are.

 

[dukebound85]

Ubuntu doesn't come with root enabled, so you can't switch to root with su.

Type "ls -la" in /cdrom directory and see what the permissions are.

well theres alot of rot entires each with diff permissions

 

[plinden]

Is this what you see?

 

[dukebound85]

no i see this

 

[plinden]

Oh, you're using VMWare Fusion?

To install it, copy the tar.gz file to your home directory and type:

tar -zxf VMwareTools-e.x.p-116369.tar.gz

cd into the vnware-tools-distrib directory created and type (I'm going by memory here)

sudo ./vmware-install.pl

and follow the directions. It will attempt to build kernel modules, and you'll need gcc and the kernel-dev headers.

Edit: hmm, sorry, that's a bit vague ... it's been a while since I install vmware tools for Ubuntu. I'll maybe try that out later.

Edit: Pretty straightforward on VMware. Just do what I said above, and accept all the default options presented to you. It didn't build anything and I didn't have to reboot.

 

[dukebound85]

Oh, you're using VMWare Fusion?

To install it, copy the tar.gz file to your home directory and type:

tar -zxf VMwareTools-e.x.p-116369.tar.gz

cd into the vnware-tools-distrib directory created and type (I'm going by memory here)

sudo ./vmware-install.pl

and follow the directions. It will attempt to build kernel modules, and you'll need gcc and the kernel-dev headers.

Edit: hmm, sorry, that's a bit vague ... it's been a while since I install vmware tools for Ubuntu. I'll maybe try that out later.

Edit: Pretty straightforward on VMware. Just do what I said above, and accept all the default options presented to you. It didn't build anything and I didn't have to reboot.

hey thanks for all the help ill give it a shot

 

[dukebound85]

also, i cant seem to enable visual effects

 

[plinden]

No, you won't be able to do any fancy UI effects. The virtual GPU isn't powerful enough.

 

[dukebound85]

No, you won't be able to do any fancy UI effects. The virtual GPU isn't powerful enough.

really? i thought vmware had 3d acceleration

 

[plinden]

It has Direct X 3D acceleration but that doesn't help non-Windows guest OSs. It supports a subset of OpenGL, which required for compiz, but doesn't provide good enough graphic emulation.

Again, I'm a bit behind in my virtualization knowledge, so I may have missed something, but a rudimentary google shows that I'm right - eg. from December - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1005393 and a month ago http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1085300

 

[likemyorbs]

For Ubuntu:
From the menu bar, select Virtual Machine -> Install Parallels Tools ...

Ignore the message and click Continue. You should see a disk icon on your Ubuntu desk top called Parallels Tools. Ignore that too.

Open a Terminal and type:

cd /cdrom
sudo sh install

Enter your password, click through the install process and reboot when it's finished.

Edit:
For Fedora it seems to be a bit more complicated. Start the same way ... click on Install Parallel Tools.

Open a Terminal window and type the following. You'll need to switch to the root user to install (unless you've added your account to sudoers):

cd /media/Parallels\ Tools
su
... enter root password ...
sh install

You will likely get a message that it needs to download and build some kernel module updates. I installed from the Live CD so I didn't have gcc, so I got an error message regarding missing items. I exited the install and typed:

yum install gcc

When that finished I ran "sh install" again, it downloaded all modules, then I rebooted.

I also got a message about SELinux possibly affecting operation of Parallels Tools. I didn't modify its settings, but all seems to work fine. Edit 2: although you can switch to full screen, it doesn't modify the resolution, so your Fedora is a box in the middle of the screen.

thank you so much! i did that and it worked! although i cant do full screen, ill try to do it in ubuntu now

EDIT: I FINALLY GOT IT ON FULL SCREEN!! i dont think i even needed parallels tools even though its really nice to have them. all i had to do was change the video memory for that VM to 16mb, it was set to 3mb. as soon as i fixed that and restarted the vm i was able to set the resolution to 1280x800 just like my mac! woohoo! cant wait to start playing with linux, its really cool. i also got ubuntu to see which i like more. what are the main differences?