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Never mind. I hacked the .pvs file to change the image= to /dev/cdrom and media= to 1, and it worked fine. Thanks to parallels for making the configuration file plain text!! :)

I have parallels 2.2.2072 installed on Gentoo linux. My physical PATA CD-ROM drive goes through the SATA chipset, so it appears as a SCSI drive, at /dev/sr0. The option to "Use a physical CD/DVD-ROM drive" is disabled, despite the fact that my user is a member of the cdrom group, there is a...

On a linux host, with an XP guest, the mouse moves easily between the windows guest and linux. This is great, except when I am resizing/moving a window or operating a scroll bar near the edge of the guest window, and the mouse drifts out, and my move/resize/scroll operation is disrupted. So...

You're not the only one....I'm also seeing this with 2072. It is possible to start the VM if the sound device is disconnected, but as soon as it is connected, a SIGABRT occurs. Strace reveals a failure to mmap 3G of memory: 1606 mmap2(NULL, 3075629056, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE...

The current Gentoo ebuild for Parallels 2.2.2072 has a dependancy on virtual/x11. Since the change to modular X, this pulls in a bunch of needless dependancies, like imake and xdm. This dependancy should simply be removed, and let the x11-libs/qt dependancy pull in the necessary libraries...