Parallels Tools for Solaris?

Nov 20, 2007, 01:03 PM #1
schwartz Member Join: Apr 2006 Posts: 51	Parallels Tools for Solaris? This thread was moved from "Parallels Desktop for Mac > Other Guest OS Types Discussion". Alicia Any chance we'll see a Parallels tools for Solaris? Would be nice to have the dynamic screen resizing offered in the linux tools under my Solaris session as well as the better mouse function. Bill

Nov 20, 2007, 03:05 PM #2
jamgold Junior Member Join: Jan 2007 Posts: 9	I am interested in this as well (mainly responding to subscribe to this thread)

Nov 21, 2007, 07:00 AM #3
spectre Parallels Team Join: Aug 2006 Posts: 318	We don't have Tools for Solaris on our short-term plans (i.e. for the nearest updates) unfortunately, but it may be added to our roadmap depending on customer requests. So your feedback in this thread is quite important to us for considering adding this feature :)

Dec 3, 2007, 02:00 PM #4
calum Junior Member Join: Jul 2007 Posts: 1	All I can add is that it was lack of Parallels Tools for Solaris that made me switch to VMware Fusion. (And so far, it's been working so well that I've had no need to switch back....)

Dec 7, 2007, 08:28 AM #5
Sipe Junior Member Join: Dec 2007 Posts: 1	Since "Solaris x86" is a very good way to simulate situations from the enterprise "Solaris Sparc" I really would appreciate the existence of Parallel Tools for Solaris x86.

Dec 10, 2007, 06:06 PM #6
wyndsayl Junior Member Join: Dec 2007 Posts: 1	Another vote I was unaware that vmware had those options. I'll have to look at that.

Jan 20, 2008, 01:43 PM #7
jamgold Junior Member Join: Jan 2007 Posts: 9	So I guess judging by the feedback in this forum (topic) there is not enough customer demand and there will be no Parallels Tools for Solaris in the near future? How about releasing the source for the linux drivers so someone in the community can do the job?

Jan 26, 2008, 11:14 PM #8
Carcarius Junior Member Join: Apr 2007 Posts: 3	Solaris Tools support I would like see this on a development roadmap for Parallels. I plan to use my Solaris 10 VM much more in the future. Thanks, Heath

Jan 27, 2008, 03:59 PM #9
adsm Junior Member Join: Jan 2008 Posts: 3	That would be great Parallels tools for Solaris would be a great help to me.

Feb 9, 2008, 07:49 PM #10
tim-e Junior Member Join: Feb 2007 Posts: 7	I too would benefit greatly from a financial perspective. I keep slamming my mouse against the desk when shifting my attention from my Solaris machine to my desktop. I'm on my third (not as Mighty as they say) mouse in 12 months.

Jul 17, 2008, 10:40 AM #11
jamgold Junior Member Join: Jan 2007 Posts: 9	Any feedback from Parallels on this? Where is the roadmap?

Jul 17, 2008, 05:04 PM #12
John@Parallels Parallels Team Join: Apr 2008 Posts: 6,912	Ok, let us see user demands and what is actually prefered Solaris on Parallels Desktop or in Parallels Server?

Jul 17, 2008, 05:47 PM #13
jamgold Junior Member Join: Jan 2007 Posts: 9	I am having a hard time to understand this wait-and-see position; considering that VMware Fusion and Sun's own VisrtualBox (free) has this feature already, as does Parallels for Linux guests, I wonder why it is so hard for Parallels to duplicate this.

Aug 6, 2008, 12:27 PM #14
rdebula Junior Member Join: Aug 2008 Posts: 1	Desktop I'd like to see Parallels tools primarily for Parallels Desktop myself. We have a lab situation where we could potentially drop in a bunch of Apple hardware (to take the place of aging Dell Windows PCs and Sun boxes) in and thereby decomission some aging Suns. This would allow us to offer students MacOS X, XP, and Solaris x86 on one piece of hardware. But lack of Parallels Tools would might force us to look at VMware Fusion if we go that route.

Aug 6, 2008, 12:27 PM

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I'd like to see Parallels tools primarily for Parallels Desktop myself. We have a lab situation where we could potentially drop in a bunch of Apple hardware (to take the place of aging Dell Windows PCs and Sun boxes) in and thereby decomission some aging Suns. This would allow us to offer students MacOS X, XP, and Solaris x86 on one piece of hardware. But lack of Parallels Tools would might force us to look at VMware Fusion if we go that route.

Sep 9, 2008, 06:00 PM #15
sparker Member Join: Nov 2006 Posts: 55	Parallels Tools I'd agree with the request for Parallels Tools in a Solaris 10 environment. I'd like to be able to run everything under Parallels, rather than having to run my Solaris environment under VMWare (and shut down the other parallels machines while I do this, since I can't run them both at the same time). Thanks,. Steve __________________ -- Steve (somewhere on an airplane in seat 9c or 9d) MacBook Pro C2D, OS-X 10.5.5, 3Gb/200Gb Parallels 4.0 build 3540

Sep 9, 2008, 06:00 PM

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Parallels Tools

I'd agree with the request for Parallels Tools in a Solaris 10 environment. I'd like to be able to run everything under Parallels, rather than having to run my Solaris environment under VMWare (and shut down the other parallels machines while I do this, since I can't run them both at the same time).

Thanks,.

Steve

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MacBook Pro C2D, OS-X 10.5.5, 3Gb/200Gb
Parallels 4.0 build 3540

Sep 12, 2008, 12:22 PM #16
Leonard Member Join: May 2007 Posts: 51	Add me to the list of folks looking for Parallels Tools support for Solaris in PD. __________________ --Larry MBP 2.16Ghz, 3GB, OS X 10.5.4 VM: Windows XP Pro SP3, Windows Vista Enterprise SP1, Open Solaris, Ubuntu 8.04, Solaris 10 Parallels 3.0 5624

Oct 14, 2008, 10:31 PM

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Originally Posted by spectre

We don't have Tools for Solaris on our short-term plans (i.e. for the nearest updates) unfortunately, but it may be added to our roadmap depending on customer requests. So your feedback in this thread is quite important to us for considering adding this feature :)

Hi there, its been a year now and solaris support is still incomplete and 1 year is a bit too long for a simple port of existing linux tools.

At the very minimum can we expect a time sync daemon for solaris/opensolaris?

In case there are no updates planned, could you at least point me to some SDK (or API) that I can use to write my own time sync? (NTP is not an option for me. Most of the times I won't even have an external network).

Thanks.

Oct 15, 2008, 08:51 AM #18
John@Parallels Parallels Team Join: Apr 2008 Posts: 6,912	You can take a look at Parallels Servers, SDK is available for it

Nov 20, 2008, 01:59 AM #19
smackdaddy Junior Member Join: Oct 2008 Posts: 1	Add me to the list of users You can add me to the list. VMware fusion may have to be my next stop.

Jan 2, 2009, 03:21 PM #20
Roth Junior Member Join: Jan 2009 Posts: 1	I'd also like to request Solaris and FreeBSD Tools support

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