Parallels Tools fails to install with Linux kernel 6.12.1-2-aarch64-ARCH

Thanks for your feedback. I know that with Fedora everything works well, also for many other Linux ARM distros like Red Hat, Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS OpenSUSE, Kali and Arch, but not for Oracle Linux. I already did contact tech support, but did not get a solution either...

 

This works well for an old version of Oracle Linux 8 which is why I am not upgrading my Oracle Linux 8 to the latest kernel version... It does not work for Oracle Linux 9 and 10 and not for 8 if you upgrade to the latest version of the kernel...

 

same sort of issue in Debian 13 Trixie - some part of parallels tools fails with not it needs to be run as root....

 

For OL8 (with recent kernel version) the solution is :
dnf install -y oracle-epel-release-el8
dnf install -y kernel-uek-devel-$(uname -r) kernel-uek-devel-5.15.0-206.153.7.1.el8uek
dnf install -y gcc-aarch64-linux-gnu.aarch64 gcc-c++-aarch64-linux-gnu.aarch64 gcc-toolset-12.aarch64 gcc-toolset-12-runtime.aarch64 gcc-toolset-12-gcc-c++.aarch64
mv /usr/bin/gcc /usr/bin/gcc-8
ln -s /opt/rh/gcc-toolset-12/root/usr/bin/gcc /usr/bin/
if [ $(uname -r) != 5.15.0-206.153.7.1.el8uek.aarch64 ] ; then
mv /usr/src/kernels/$(uname -r)/include/linux/arm-smccc.h /usr/src/kernels/$(uname -r)/include/linux/arm-smccc.h.orig
cp /usr/src/kernels/5.15.0-206.153.7.1.el8uek.aarch64/include/linux/arm-smccc.h /usr/src/kernels/$(uname -r)/include/linux/
fi
mv /usr/src/kernels/$(uname -r)/include/linux/arm-smccc.h /usr/src/kernels/$(uname -r)/include/linux/arm-smccc.h.orig
cp /usr/src/kernels/5.15.0-206.153.7.1.el9uek.aarch64/include/linux/arm-smccc.h /usr/src/kernels/$(uname -r)/include/linux/
mkdir /media/cdrom
mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom
/media/cdrom/install
rm /usr/bin/gcc
mv /usr/bin/gcc-8 /usr/bin/gcc

For OL9, more simply :
dnf install -y oracle-epel-release-el9
dnf install -y kernel-uek-devel-$(uname -r) kernel-uek-devel-5.15.0-206.153.7.1.el9uek
mv /usr/src/kernels/$(uname -r)/include/linux/arm-smccc.h /usr/src/kernels/$(uname -r)/include/linux/arm-smccc.h.orig
cp /usr/src/kernels/5.15.0-206.153.7.1.el9uek.aarch64/include/linux/arm-smccc.h /usr/src/kernels/$(uname -r)/include/linux/
mkdir /media/cdrom
mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom
/media/cdrom/install