Using ArchLinux in Parallels Desktop on Mac Host

alexs77 · 2009-10-31 15:26:22

Hi.

Here goes: I'd like to use Parallels Desktop 4.0.3848 and ArchLinux as a guest OS in Parallels. I already have bought Parallels and that's why I'd like to use it. Host OS is Mac OS X and thus hardware is an Apple - MacBook Pro.

I installed Arch from the 2009.08 Net image in Parallels. Two questions:

1) Which "driver" for X would I use? For VMware, I'd use xf86-video-vmware (and also xf86-input-vmmouse). But what do I use for Parallels?
2) How do you install Parallels Tools 4.0?

That's what I get when trying to install it. Log: /var/log/parallels-tools-install.log

Have others been successful in trying to install the tools?

Thanks,
MS

PS: Yes, I know that other Parallels thread in this forum, but it's a junk thread, so I'm starting a new one.
PPS: Sorry for the dupe. Used wrong account at first…

Sakurina · 2009-10-31 17:14:08

I can't speak for Parallels 4, but in Parallels 3 it's plain VESA video and xf86-video-mouse.

Haven't tried to install the tools though.

alexs77 · 2009-11-01 09:20:10

Thx, going to try it.

Isn't plain VESA going to be painfully slow, though?

Sakurina · 2009-11-01 15:38:47

alexs77 wrote:

Isn't plain VESA going to be painfully slow, though?

Never noticed it being slow; then again, I'm not playing video or using fancy compositing effects so I wouldn't really know. :x

Vamp898 · 2009-11-01 16:33:17

I can tell you that Archlinux with VirtualBox as Guest System in Mac OS X is a truck load faster than with parallels and it works 100% fine with the guest additions (even with 3D Support)

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Using ArchLinux in Parallels Desktop on Mac Host

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