Comments on: How to install Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) in Parallels Desktop for OS X

By: Asun

Asun — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:54:06 +0000

Great, just intalled 9.10 using this page.

Actually I got as far as the disk partitioning page without this last night, but I baulked at the idea of erasing an “entire disk.” All I needed was for someone to hold my hand and tell me, “look it’s alright, it tells you it’s a virual disk, you don’t need to worry …” Thanks for that.

By: Hassan

Hassan — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:26:43 +0000

Parallels Desktop Update Fixes regarding Ubuntu

- Problems with installing Parallels Tools in the Ubuntu Linux 9.04 guest OS – fixed.

Source: Parallels tools ReadMe while installing updates.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:17:00 +0000

Thanks for the kind replies ! Many thanks to Ross, the author of this tutorial. I found this to be a very helpful thread, because I have also never tried Linux before. So I tried it in Parallels and it was easy! As soon as I found out how to install Parallels tools and run full screen I posted my comment. I know using terminal is difficult if you’re new to it, so I was happy to discover the dragging hint

By: woodcreeper

woodcreeper — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:40:58 +0000

Thanks Daniel! This is only my second day using Linux… all I can say is thank god for the online community, or I’d be banging my head against the wall 10x as much as I already am (it hurts).

By: Moiz

Moiz — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:00:16 +0000

Hello Sir,
Please let me know step by step guide for uninstalling ubuntu from my parallel desktop mac os x
thnx in advance for your help

By: Sashmo

Sashmo — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 18:04:13 +0000

Daniel rocks…. Works like a charm!

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:56:14 +0000

Many thanks for this very helpful tutorial. Got me up and running in next to now time and Parallels Tools also installed thanks to Daniel’s comment.

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 22:30:26 +0000

Thanks daniel, I got tools installed

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 22:25:56 +0000

I also installed Parallel Tools in Ubuntu 9.04 with Parallels 4.0 (latest version):
- choose “install parallel tools in Parallels menu – this will mount a cd image in ubuntu
- open terminal application in ubuntu and type “sudo su” followed by your ubuntu password
- drag the install file to the open terminal window type return
- this will show installation for parallels tools
- after reboot parallels tools will be installed

To get Full Screen you need to increase video memory in the Virtual Machine configuration. Mine was defaulted on 2 Mb, and I set it to the preferred size of 16 MB. Still no Coherence or Visual Effects though.

Daniel

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 01:42:10 +0000

hey, there is now support for installing parallels tools with ubuntu 9.04 i believe, anyone know ay tutorials on how to do this. I just tried it with terminal, got a GUI installer, rebooted, but still coherence isnt available and the screen wont adjust or maximize with the window, so im thinking i did it wrong,

Any links or other tutorials would be appreciated or email me iconz113@gmail.com

Thanks!

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:38:16 +0000

Still No tools for 9.04

By: David

David — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:05:30 +0000

hi do you know if parallels tool is now working for ubuntu 9.04 can you give me instructions to install it in ubuntu (absolute beginner…)

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By: Samson

Samson — Fri, 29 May 2009 05:05:49 +0000

Steve, thank you for your advice, VBox is powerful enough and free, I think I will delete my Parallels after I get myVBox VM ready XD

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 28 May 2009 21:22:56 +0000

Its pretty dire for a virtualisation system to need to be upgraded to cope with a newer version of xorg (which is what this appears to be).

It seems to be an ongoing issue with the way that Parallels virtualises graphics hardware as I’ve heard of this problem before; people having to upgrade Parallels in order to get it to work with some more recent release of some Linux distribution.

I’ve changed to Suns Virtualbox now.