Installing Parallels Tools from Parallels Desktop 8 on Mac Book Pro Retina

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Originally Posted by seag33k

Figured it out. I forgot the -R when I ran chmod on my local directory of the tools. Once I did that, boom it worked. Thanks!

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I know I'm a little late to the party, but could you elaborate a bit on this?

I have the latest build of Parallels 8 (Build 8.0.18615) and I am still unable to install Parallels Tools. I still get the following in my log after a failed installation:

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make: Leaving directory `/usr/lib/parallels-tools/kmods'
Error: could not build kernel modules
Error: failed to install kernel modules
2013-03-20T03:37:58-0400: execCmd: ./install --install [143]
2013-03-20T03:37:58-0400: Error: An error occurred when installing Parallels Tools. Please go to /var/log/parallels-tools-install.log for more information.
2013-03-20T03:38:03-0400: Exiting with code 1

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Any ideas? I've run apt-get update and upgrade, and I've also run apt-get install -y make linux-headers-$(uname -r).

I thought the new version of Parallels Tools was supposed to resolve the kernel compatibility problem...? Unless the latest version of Kali is up to a different unsupported kernel again?

post the /var/log/parallels-tools-install.log file.

Actually, the snippet from my last post had the part of the log that I thought was the most important. I double checked my kernel version and it seems that Kali is up to kernel version 3.12, while I think Parallels 8 (and maybe even 9?) still only supports linux kernel up to version 3.7. So that seems to be the reason for my problems...

The only possible solution that I have found is to follow the instructions here to patch the installer to allow it to run on kernel 3.12: http://forum.parallels.com/showthrea...buntu-14-04%29

But the author says it's for Parallels Tools 9 (I have 8) and I don't quite understand what the script is doing to know if it's safe to execute on my machine. Might have no choice but to give it a shot, though...

Installing Parallels Tools to Kali Linux (Kernel v.3.12)

Posting this here since i always seem to have a problem getting this working:

Mount the Parallels Tools CD in the VM
Download the patch from http://pastebin.com/8imsrmcN or here: parallels-tools-linux-3.12-prl-fs-9.0.23350.941886.patch
Make a copy of the Parallels Tools CD, enter the directory, & patch it:
cd /media/cdrom0
cp -r install installer/ kmods/ tools/ version /tmp
cd /tmp/kmods
tar -xaf prl_mpd.tar.gz
patch -p1 -d prl_fs < parallels-tools-linux-3.12-prl-fs-9.0.23350.941886.patch
tar -czf prl_mod.tar.gz prl_eth prl_fs prl_fs_freeze prl_tg Makefile.kmods dkms.conf
chmod +x install
./install
Follow the GUI installer for Parallels Tools
You should now be able to get Parallels Tools installed on kernel version 3.12.