"Module vm-main is not found" - ???

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neilio

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I consistently get this error message when I try to launch Parallels:
Module vm-main is not found! Parallels Workstation 2.1 is installed, but it has not been configured for your running kernel. To configure it please login as root and run parallels-config.
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The only way to work around this is to trash the existing copy and install a fresh copy of the application.

This is the sequence of events to reproduce:

1. Install a fresh copy (I already have a disk image installed and ready).
2. Launch, use the application, everything's cool.
3. At some point I reboot my system
4. When I try to launch Parallels now, I get the above error.
5. Repeat at #1.

Anyone else seeing this issue? The only thing I can think of is that the Parallels application doesn't like being moved from the top level Applications folder, but I haven't tested that hypothesis yet.

Neil
 
Parallels application must be on top of /Applications/ directory, otherwise drivers can't be started and Parallels Workstation can't work.
 
For those of us who like to organize our applications into sub-folders (Games, Internet, Media, etc.), requiring Parallels Workstation to remain in /Applications is definitely a limitation.

While I would not call it a "bug", I don't see a technical reason why "/Applications" is hard-coded into the program itself. Here is a request that this limitation be removed in a future version.
 
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