I am running Parallels Desktop 3188 on an 24″ Intel iMac, trying to run both Ubuntu and Kubuntu Feisty (just released…) in a VM but what’s going on here? No matter what I try and do I cannot boot with the boot cdrom ISO’s to a standard virtual machine. (The latest betas worked…) Both versions start booting for about 2 seconds then I see a Please Wait, and the screen clears to black and that’s it. I have left it overnight for both versions but that is all I get. I wish there were more to this story than just what I have here - but there really isn’t.
What gives??? Does anyone have any suggestions or had any better luck than me?
UPDATE: A solution was provided to the problem in the comments below.
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Have you tried the alternate CD’s?
I have found myself skipping the desktop CD’s because they are always freezing up or are incredibly slow.
I didn’t try the alternate CD’s only because I wanted the bootable environment for a quick check of the new “released” version’s features. For some reason - I haven’t had this before with many many other distros and ISO’s - this just won’t boot.
You’d just think they would try it on all the VM’s out there at least. Granted I am normally a VMware guy, but I’d rate Parallels as getting pretty significant from a desktop VM environment point of view.
I almost can’t believe this is happening. It’s such a dumb/obvious problem. Incidentally my VM running the ISO has been at a black screen since boot for about two days now. Just left it to see if it was REALLY slow, but no luck. Thanks for your input Derek.
Set the virtual machine type to Solaris. For some reason, that will make Ubuntu recognize the Parallels CD drivers.
Awesome! Thanks Dennie. That seems to work well. That seems like such a dumb problem, but your solution works excellent!
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