Andi Vajda wrote:
On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Aparna Kadakia wrote:
Has anyone been able to successfully upgrade their linux VM under
paralles to Gutsy Gibbon yet?
We need to upgrade it within QA to certify Chandler on GG and I was
wondering if anyone had made notes on what to watch out for etc
I spent most of the day on this today and here is what I found so far.
The default installation fails to boot X properly. Installing via the
"Text mode installer" - an option in the boot menu - does work. I got
Gutsy installed fine. However, installing the parallels tools causes X
to fail to boot again. Trawling the various forums via Google about this
shows that there are many people having this problem. I couldn't find a
solution that I was able to make work.
The trick is to not install from the "live" ISO but rather from the
alternative - this is the one that does a text-mode install.
I don't think Parallels even claims to support the latest Ubuntu distro
with their "Parallels Tools", the software makes it possible to move
your mouse out of the desktop windows without hitting Ctrl-Alt. I guess
we have to wait for them to release an update.
I redid the full installation without this time installing the
"Parallels Tools" and all seems fine so far.
Yes, parallels tools is a step behind and will crash your X windows
setup faster than you can click the mouse. They will be releasing an
update very soon.
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