I think the topic says it. I upgraded to parallels 4, see that once again I need to reinstall parallels tools (constant reminder on bottom of parallels windows now, too) choose install parallels tools, it does nothing, go hunting through the CD find various drivers that don't want to install, but no tools installer.
Then why don't they install? In V3 there was an installer, and while it was a pain to find that the tools inserted a virtual floppy disk into the virtual floppy drive, it was right there when I looked. In V4, there are multiple directories 3 levels away from the CD root, that look like various win9x drivers, some install, some //look// like they install but don't show that way when looking at device manager after reboot. Also dxdiag makes all sorts of complaints that it didn't under V3. Probably because with the current "wander the tools CD and see what allows to be installed" I may have only some of the drivers, so that the 'parallels tools are not installed' warning doesn't go away, and probably installed the pieces in a different order than Parallel's QA department. All this is trivially fixed by having an installer just like V3. If there is an installer - Tell me where it is If there isn't - tell me each directory on the tools CD has a needed driver, and the order needed to deactivate the 'parallels tools are not installed' message, while leaving my win98 virt machine in a usable state. -- While I'm posting, a note related to (future?) features, emulating a TNT2 would make me very happy, emulating a Geforce2 would make me estatic. Doing that emulation right so that DirectX 9.0c works would be ideal, as Gf2 + Dx9 covers all but about 3 games IIRC.
Then we just need someone from Parallels to come in here and admit that they committed fraud by claiming V4 is an upgrade from V3, and of course give me a refund. But a mere refund is not enough, they must admit that they haven't fulfilled their promises from V2.2 which carried over to the free upgrade to V3, and that despite that they apparently have no intention of doing their job (according to your statement), then claiming that V4 is an upgrade. Maybe I will give virtualbox a try, now I'll have the excuse.
Whoops. VB doesn't have 'additions' (their equivalent to 'tools') for win98 either: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Guest_OSes
I think the general lack of support for Win9x is that there are few things that can only run on Win9x, I mean, if it's to run DOS software then it's better to create a DOS only VM or use DOSBox, other software that requires Windows actually works under XP, what doesn't work are certain DOS programs. I wonder if those Direct X games work in XP.
