Questions tagged [parallels]
Parallels is a company that develops virtualization technology for OS X.
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How to increase screen resolution on OSX VM for Parallels?
I used Parallels 7 on my macbook to create a osx vm with the restore image, and that worked fine, the only problem is that I can't seem to be able to change the screen size, which magically seems to ...
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Is it possible to have more than one screen in Parallels?
I use Parallels 10 on Yosemite. My hardware has one screen or two screens, depending on if I use the laptop and/or an external screen in combination. However, Parallels only recognises one screen:
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Issue with mac'os Catalina and parallels
I'm running Parallels VM version 13.3.0 on my mac and ever since I upgraded my mac'os to Catalina, Windows 10 is running very slow on the VM (It just looks very laggy).
My mac is running normally good,...
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Problem with shared folder SAS University Edition on a Mac using Parallels Desktop
I've managed to install the SAS University Edition (SASUE) as a VM on Parallels Desktop 14. The appliance works, but the shared folder is not showing up. I managed to install the Parallel Tools onto ...
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What is the mouse shortcut for Windows 10 Task View on Parallels?
I use Windows 10 in Parallels on a MacBook Pro. A couple of times per day, I accidentally go into Task View while moving my mouse. I can't seem to figure out what mouse gesture I'm doing to trigger ...
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Bootcamp is unable to boot Windows 8.1
Ok I've tried the most tactics to this but i am still stuck.
I am unable to boot into windows on my Macbook pro 2012. I have been using Parallels lately and for the first time it read that it is ...
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Visual Studio Community 2022: mscoreei.dll could not be loaded
I've become suddenly unable to use Visual Studio Community due to the error in the screenshot. It comes up a lot and makes the IDE completely unusable. The error comes after I load up my solution.
My ...
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converting parallels pvm files to virtualbox readable
I am having issues with parallels, and so I decided to go forth with migrating my stuff to virtualbox, since it's much better, it has always worked.
I've googled ways to convert a pvm file to hdd, ...
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OS X 10.11.6, Parallels Desktop 12, and Windows 10 - Windows hangs at login screen
I have a Windows 10 Enterprise VM in Parallels Desktop 12 on my MacBook Pro. It was working fine for awhile, but a few weeks ago I inexplicably ran into a problem - the VM boots without issue and ...
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Parallels Plesk: Add domain alias to a sub domain
I would like to add a domain alias to a sub domain in parallels plesk 11.5.
I am able to do it from /var/www/vhost/sites.adomain.com/conf/vhost.conf
But i want to do this from parallels panel.
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Make Mac Parallels IIS website accessible from Internet
I am developing an e-commerce site that is nearly finished, last thing I need to do is debug an issue with a callback from the payment gateway.
I am running Windows through Parallels Mac and want to ...
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Prevent Parallels from dismounting data HDD when starting Windows
I've got two harddrives in my Macbook. A SSD with OSX and Windows 7 (via Bootcamp) on it and a ordinary HDD for data which is formated as exFat (because both OSX and Windows can read/write it).
I'm ...
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Single command to stop Parallels hypervisor (kernel extensions)
I'm using multiple virtualization products on my MacBook Pro (VirtualBox, VMware Fusion, Parallels).
To avoid problems I always make sure only the procesesses/kernel extensions for one of those ...
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Do I have to reboot the system after getting an "unspecified launch failure" in kernel?
After a kernel fails due to "unspecified launch failure", the only way I am able to use the device again is after a system reboot. Is there another way to do this? If I attempt to to run again after ...
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Excel 2007 VBA macros don't work in Parallels
I've got a complex Excel spreadsheet I need to use at work. My colleagues use the spreadsheet on Windows PC's, with no special configuration required. I want to run it on a MacBook Pro running Snow ...
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Same Windows installation as both a host and guest
First off: There are other, similar questions to this (e.g. Why is it I can't use my Windows installation both as a host and a guest?), but the questions either don't provide enough information, ...
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I cannot convert successfully VMWare Fusion to Paralles
I have a macOS host and macOS virtual machine on VMWare with the extension .vmwarevm and I wanted to convert it to .pvm Parallels Extension. Parallels was able to do that but it didn't detect any OS ...
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How does Parallels allow you to access your camera and microphone on the M1 Macbook?
I have been trying to pass through my camera and microphone to my Arch VM on my M1 Macbook Air via QEMU to no avail. However, just to check if it was possible, I tried Parallels and it worked right ...
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Why am I getting ERR_CONNECTION_RESET when trying to access Parallels Windows localhost from Mac?
I have created a port forwarding rule with source and destination port 8081 using TCP and forward to Windows 10 and turned off the firewall on Windows domain network and public network. I start an ...
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Elementary OS error with rc local orig No such file or directory
rc.local shows
rm-fR /var/lib/apt/lists/*
mv /etc/rc.local.orig /etc/rc.local
exit 0
When ever I try to boot the system I get
mv: cannot stat '/etc/rc.local.orig': No such file or directory
Don't ...
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Parallels - Route trafic thru virtual machine
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I have a Macosx with a Windows 10 virtual machine running inside with Parallels.
This image of Windows is corporative and has a vpn client to connect to internet.
I want to send all the ...
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Cannot fix random reoccurring permission issues in Windows 10 VM
I have started having major permission issues "out of the blue" on Windows 10 Home (10.0.16299 Build 16299). This is a virtual machine running in Parallels on macOS High Sierra.
Files or folders ...
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How can I recreate the efi boot loader of a Bootcamp installation?
I was updating my Bootcamp windows 10 (which was running in Parallels Desktop). Something happened apparently (I don't know what), and when I later started the Bootcamp Windows from Parallels, its ...
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Vagrant on Mac os and hosts file issue
Editing file /etc/hosts
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# Host Database
#
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
# when the system is booting. Do not change this entry.
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Access Windows 10 localhost from OSX using Parallels
I'm running a Windows 10 VM using Parallels. I'm building an API on the windows machine and a mobile app on OSX. I need to call the Windows localhost from OSX in order to test out my API calls. Is ...
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Where did FrontDesk device come from
I have a Windows 8.1 virtual machine running in Parallels 10 on a MacBook Pro under OSX El Capitan. At one point today, I had a device show up in explorer under network locations...one I've never seen ...
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VPN problems in OS X El Capitan with Parallels 11 installed
This problem occurred in the el capitan beta, but only after I've installed Parallels 11. However it might be just an unlucky timing and maybe a new update for el capitan caused it.
The problem: I ...
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Visual Studio Txt file opening
I'm running visual studio in parallels on a macbook air. First time I'm using C++ to open txt files and it seems to work only when debugging but not when I run without debugging.
example code:
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IDE does not recognize file path on mac parallels
I am trying to create a project on Atmel Studio 6, which is similar to visual studio, but when I run the code, I get the errors:
No such file in directory.
No input file
I am using Atmed Studio on ...
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Parallels or Bootcamp For Running AutoCad?
I have a client who just recently switched to a Mac and wants to run all of his old Windows programs within the Mac. I'm not familiar enough with Mac to know but I would assume this would be handled ...
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Running Windows 8 off partition created in Boot Camp and also in Parallels 8. How do I handle Windows activation?
The scenario I have in mind is:
Install Windows 8 on a separate partition via Boot Camp.
Create a virtual machine in Parallels based on the installation in step 1.
Create a new virtual machine based ...
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Switch red5 https.port
Our Plesk parallels was installed at port 8443 and since installing red5, we haven't had use of it. I later found out that by default, when a server has ssl, red5 uses port 8443. Is there any way to ...
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How to Share Builtin Mac Bluetooth with Windows 7 VM through Parallels 8
There seems to be a lot of noise on how to do this.
This tutorial should be all that there is: http://kb.parallels.com/en/114686
But when I go into device manager on Windows, the driver cannot be ...
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parallels accessing arbitrary port on host OS from guest OS
I'm running Windows 7 inside of Parallels on Mac OS X 10.7.5. No firewalls have been setup.
From the Mac end, to work remotely I need to VPN into my corp network. Then I use SSH Tunnel Manager to set ...
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How to use your keyboard layout on Parallels Desktop? (This is the third time I ask)
I have made a custom keyboard layout using Ukelele. Using Parallels desktop is a pain since them because the keys are different from what I'm used to. How do I use that keyboard layout on Parallels?
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Need help setting up bind in OSX for browser testing in Parallels Windows XP VM
Ok, this will be a somewhat lengthy question. First, some background: I am developing and testing websites on a Macbook (OSX Lion), using Parallels to run various installs of Windows for IE testing. I ...
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How to recover a corrupted Parallels 7 hard disk image?
I have a Parallels virtual machine that has recently started to refuse to boot, with this error message:
Operation failed.
An error occured while reading the disk.
Support information: Problem ID: ...
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Running Visual Studio under Parallels get error with Create on Strongly Typed View
I Get the below error when using Visual Studio to add a strongly typed view. Visual Studio is running via Parallels and the code is store on the Mac (I assume the problem is down to this) - Anyone ...
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Macbook Air Reboot after Wake when Windows 7 Running in VM
Is anyone who is running a Windows 7 VM on a new 2011 i5 Macbook Air (I have the 13" w/128 SSD) able to put their Macbook air to sleep for extended periods of time (like overnight) without manually ...
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Converting Parallels Desktop 7 VM from Mac to Windows
I have a Windows 2008 r2 x64 virtual machine that I run on my Mac through Parallels Desktop 7.
I need to convert this virtual machine so I can run it on my Windows 7 x64 machine. Which VM software ...
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VMware vSphere Client in Parallels 5 Windows 7 VM becomes unusable
Unfortunately there is no VMware vSphere Client available for Mac OS X, so I have to run the client in a Parallels 5 VM with Windows 7.
I always get to a point where the client becomes unusable. If ...
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Parallels "Creating Snapshot" hangup
I am using Windows paralles with my mac and I began "creating snapshot" in my VM. But the process won't stop. Now if I startup the VM, I cannot quit parallels and also can't shutdown my computer ...
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Changing the Parallels menubar icon?
Is it possible to change the Parallels menubar icon from the red icon to a black and white version?
I already know how to change the actual dock icons, but I'd like all the menubar icons to be a ...
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Keyboard-type (e.g. "EN") doesn't show up for Windows under Parallels
I recently installed Parallels Desktop for Mac so that I could run Windows programs on my Mac.
Unfortunately, when I add new Keyboards to Windows 7 (Control Panel >> Clock, Language and Region >> ...
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Windows Activation in Parallels and Boot Camp
When I got my new iMac a few months ago, I set up Boot Camp to split the disk into two. I bought and installed a copy of Windows 7 using Boot Camp. Everything worked great.
I recently bought and ...
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How to make Win7 guest in Parallels 5 use Mac media keyboard shortcuts
I am using a Mac Pro as my host machine with Windows 7 64-bit running as a guest in Parallels 5. My issue is that I do not like iTunes and prefer running foobar2000 in Windows, however by doing this I ...
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How Can I Boot My PenDrive Linux using Parallels (Mac OS X)
I have a persistent Ubuntu 10.04 installation on a 8GB PenDrive that I use to boot on Windows computers. However I cannot boot this setup from my Mac. (Will look into using rEFit) I have been trying, ...
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Does VMWare Fusion, Virtual PC, Parallels, or VirtualBox not let a program detects that it is a Virtual PC?
I wanted to install a program called PPS to watch tv, but heard that there were security risk with an earlier version of the program, so I wanted to install it on a Virtual PC.
However, after ...
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Update Ubuntu under Parallels desktop
I'm trying to update my Ubuntu 20.04.2 ARM64 bits running using parallels using the common :
sudo apt update and I'm getting the following error :
Hit:1 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports jammy ...
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Jupyter lab on ubuntu does not start browser
I'm using an Ubuntu VM in parallels (running on OSX M1 Processor).
Jupyter lab works fine on my base conda environment. When I launch it from an environment I created, nothing happens.