[arch-general] Parallels 7 Tools
I just installed Arch in Parallels 7 following the beginner's guide on the wiki. Went great and I'm up and running (without xorg so far). I want to install the Parallels Tools but I'm having some problems. I've mounted the tools but the install script is failing with a rather generic error "Some components are missing, do you want to try and download?" -> "Installer cannot detect package manager...". I found the wiki page for Parallels ( https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Parallels) but it isn't helping me so far. Has anyone gotten this to work? Any help would be great. Thanks! -- Joshua Poehls
Clearly parallels doesn't have support for Arch's Pacman packagemanager. Post the install script top some pastebin service so some one can take a look on it and see what it actually does, so you can manually install the stuff. Just don't I use pastebin.com some archers don't line it and will completely refuse to even open it.
Here is the ./install script. https://gist.github.com/2306919
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Joshua Poehls
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 7:05 PM, Jesse Jaara
Clearly parallels doesn't have support for Arch's Pacman packagemanager. Post the install script top some pastebin service so some one can take a look on it and see what it actually does, so you can manually install the stuff. Just don't I use pastebin.com some archers don't line it and will completely refuse to even open it.
Rest of the install script stack please. Especially install-tools.sh and install-kmod.sh. No references top your install error on that part of the installer stack, you posted.
Ah. Here are a few more. There are others but the look like the handle the
xserver stuff specifically, I can post them if needed.
install-kmod.sh https://gist.github.com/2307362
install-tools.sh https://gist.github.com/2307365
install-service.sh https://gist.github.com/2307369
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Joshua Poehls
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 7:57 PM, Jesse Jaara
Rest of the install script stack please. Especially install-tools.sh and install-kmod.sh. No references top your install error on that part of the installer stack, you posted.
Not to butt in, but this tickled my memory and made me think of this: https://github.com/organik/Parallels-for-Arch-Linux which seems to not have been touched in 5 months but I believe attempts to tackle the problem you're having. I don't have time to mess around with this right now, but https://github.com/organik/Parallels-for-Arch-Linux/blob/master/installer/pm... might be a good starting point if you're feeling like getting your hands dirty (changes the package manager script to work with pacman). Of course, the other option would be to force the requirements check in install-kmod.sh to return true and find and fix the resulting errors. This seems painful and non-optimal, however. -- Alex Speder alex.speder@gmail.com
Wow. I'm afraid that's way out of my league. :\
Instead of all my separate gists, this may be a little easier if anyone
wants to poke at the install scripts.
https://github.com/jpoehls/Parallels-7-Tools-for-Linux-2.6 -- I checked in
all of the scripts (I think) and only skipped what looked to be archive
files.
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Joshua Poehls
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 9:02 PM, Alex Speder
Not to butt in, but this tickled my memory and made me think of this: https://github.com/organik/Parallels-for-Arch-Linux which seems to not have been touched in 5 months but I believe attempts to tackle the problem you're having. I don't have time to mess around with this right now, but https://github.com/organik/Parallels-for-Arch-Linux/blob/master/installer/pm... might be a good starting point if you're feeling like getting your hands dirty (changes the package manager script to work with pacman).
Of course, the other option would be to force the requirements check in install-kmod.sh to return true and find and fix the resulting errors. This seems painful and non-optimal, however. -- Alex Speder alex.speder@gmail.com
On Wednesday 04 Apr 2012 21:07:03 Joshua Poehls wrote:
Wow. I'm afraid that's way out of my league. :\
Not wanting to state the obvious, but it looks like it's going to be painful to get Arch working smoothly with Parallels. Have you considered using VirtualBox instead? Support is excellent, and you can probably export the VM from Parallels into VirtualBox without too much hassle. Paul
Yeah. I thought of that, just didn't want to if I didn't have to. I
think I'll do that though. VirtualBox here I come.
Thanks,
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Joshua Poehls
On Apr 5, 2012, at 3:19 AM, Paul Gideon Dann
On Wednesday 04 Apr 2012 21:07:03 Joshua Poehls wrote:
Wow. I'm afraid that's way out of my league. :\
Not wanting to state the obvious, but it looks like it's going to be painful to get Arch working smoothly with Parallels. Have you considered using VirtualBox instead? Support is excellent, and you can probably export the VM from Parallels into VirtualBox without too much hassle.
Paul
I have tried several times to get the Parallels tools to install in Arch and was never successful. I run Arch through Virtual Box and it's very smooth. Squall
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