Issues with Parallels Tools 9 and Leopard Server Guest

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Darrellicte

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I was previously running Leopard as a guest O/S under Parallels Desktop 8 with no issues, but after upgrading to Parallels Desktop 9, Parallels Tools will no longer install properly on this guest. The installer seems to run, but then when it gets to the end and displays a 2-minute timer, the "Restart" button in that dialog is not clickable. The timer goes all the way down to 1 second, then stops (the guest O/S is not restarted, as it should be.) I restarted the guest O/S manually, but then Parallels Tools were not running once it booted up.

Everything works fine with a Snow Leopard guest.
 
Hello,
I have exactly the same issue and I have opened a ticket to the support. I hope they still care about Leopard Server. I really need this and not Snow.
 
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What is not said here is that my host runs Mavericks 10.9.2. I've never tried with an earlier release and I can't.
 
The latest build (http://kb.parallels.com/fr/117225) comes with a fix for Mac OS X 10.5 guests. So they still care about it...
Parallel Tools installer behaves the same. I have to restart the VM manually and the get the message in the windows footer that they are not installed. Anyway, I have recovered copy-paste feature between host and guest...
 
Then I just run manually the process copypaste in the guest's terminal as below. That's an ugly way but it no longer crashes and that works.

/Library/Parallels\ Guest\ Tools/copypaste

I've tried "nohup /Library/Parallels\ Guest\ Tools/copypaste &" to allow the copypaste process not to stop when the terminal window is closed, but it generates a bus error...
 
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