Full Fedora 17 support?

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mac-addict1982

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This week, I downloaded and installed Fedora 17 in a VM. Installing the Parallels Tools went well, but after booting, only shared folders worked. Dynamic switching of the screen resolution did not work, mouse pointer integration did'd work as well.

Has anyone found a way to get Fedora 17 fully working, or do we need for an update of PD?
 
We need an update. Fedora 17 uses xorg 1.12.0 and Parallels Tools currently only supports up to 1.11.4
 
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It would be nice if there was an upgrade to the Xorg driver pretty soon. The 800x600 screen I am forced to use now is nowhere close what I need in screen real estate to work effectively (I have more than one monitor too.) Note: setting vga= kernel parameter doesn't work as expected either for some reason.
 
I want to know if you installed the parallels tools successfully? I failed and it told me it can't build kernel modules.
 
Any news or updates to Fedora 17 support by Parallels Tools?

samuelwitzig@gmx.net said:
This week, I downloaded and installed Fedora 17 in a VM. Installing the Parallels Tools went well, but after booting, only shared folders worked. Dynamic switching of the screen resolution did not work, mouse pointer integration did'd work as well.

Has anyone found a way to get Fedora 17 fully working, or do we need for an update of PD?
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I built Fedora 17 as a clean VM under Parallels, installed kernel-tools and kernel-tools-devel, but I still get a "Error: failed to install kernel modules" when I attempt to install Parallel Tools. What magic did you work to get Parallel Tools to install? Is there an updated package or source for Parallel Tools, or am I missing something?

Reading this thread, it sounds like xorg 1.12 is still an issue. Hopefully Parallels has or will support it soon?

Thanks for the help... sorry for sounding like a complete noob with all the questions. =P
 
Promethh said:
What magic did you work to get Parallel Tools to install? Is there an updated package or source for Parallel Tools, or am I missing something?

Reading this thread, it sounds like xorg 1.12 is still an issue. Hopefully Parallels has or will support it soon?

Thanks for the help... sorry for sounding like a complete noob with all the questions. =P
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No magic, just installed the PD-Tools. Did not encounter any error messages. The new PD-Release tonight still does not support Xorg 1.12 (just tried...)
 
Does anyone have an update on this? I have a clean install of Fedora 17, kernel-devel and all necessary devel tools installed, but Parallels Tools will not install (Parallels v7):

Parallels Tools 7.0.15098.770637 Installer started.
2012-07-10T22:53:24-0400: Failed to setup console printk level.
2012-07-10T22:53:42-0400: Exiting with code 0
2012-07-10T22:55:16-0400:

Parallels Tools 7.0.15098.770637 Installer started.
2012-07-10T22:55:16-0400: Failed to setup console printk level.
2012-07-10T22:55:20-0400: execCmd: ./installer/pm.sh check_guest_tools 2>&1 [0]

Tue Jul 10 22:55:20 EDT 2012
Start installation or upgrade of Guest Tools
Installed Guest Tools were not found
Perform installation into the /usr/lib/parallels-tools directory
cat: /usr/lib/parallels-tools/kmods/../version: No such file or directory
Start installation of prl_eth kernel module
make: Entering directory `/usr/lib/parallels-tools/kmods'
cd prl_eth/pvmnet && make
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/lib/parallels-tools/kmods/prl_eth/pvmnet'
make -C /lib/modules/3.4.4-5.fc17.i686/build M=/usr/lib/parallels-tools/kmods/prl_eth/pvmnet
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/3.4.4-5.fc17.i686'
LD /usr/lib/parallels-tools/kmods/prl_eth/pvmnet/built-in.o
CC [M] /usr/lib/parallels-tools/kmods/prl_eth/pvmnet/pvmnet.o
/usr/lib/parallels-tools/kmods/prl_eth/pvmnet/pvmnet.c:23:24: fatal error: asm/system.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make[3]: *** [/usr/lib/parallels-tools/kmods/prl_eth/pvmnet/pvmnet.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [_module_/usr/lib/parallels-tools/kmods/prl_eth/pvmnet] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/3.4.4-5.fc17.i686'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/lib/parallels-tools/kmods/prl_eth/pvmnet'
make: *** [all] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/usr/lib/parallels-tools/kmods'
Error: could not build kernel modules
Error: failed to install kernel modules
2012-07-10T22:55:22-0400: execCmd: ./install --install [143]
2012-07-10T22:55:22-0400: Error: An error occurred when installing Parallels Tools. Please go to /var/log/parallels-tools-install.log for more information.
2012-07-10T22:55:28-0400: Exiting with code 1

looking at the kernel sources for 3.4.4-5.fc17.i686 there does not appear to be an asm/system.h
 
signal said:
Does anyone have an update on this? I have a clean install of Fedora 17, kernel-devel and all necessary devel tools installed, but Parallels Tools will not install (Parallels v7):

/usr/lib/parallels-tools/kmods/prl_eth/pvmnet/pvmnet.c:23:24: fatal error: asm/system.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.

looking at the kernel sources for 3.4.4-5.fc17.i686 there does not appear to be an asm/system.h
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I've solved the same error today by downgrading to kernel-3.3.4-5. asm/system.h exist in kernel-devel-3.3.4-5
 
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Downgrading to a 3.3 kernel isn't much of a solution. Newer Fedora 16 kernels are 3.4-based, as are Fedora 17 kernels. And the 3.3 kernel is EOL as of last month IIRC, so we really do need support for 3.4 kernels. This is keeping me from upgrading a critical system from Fedora 16 to 17 (and I can't even upgrade to newer Fedora 16 kernels either, which is really frustrating).
 
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