Network Initialization Failed

[StephenB13]

Hi everyone.

I haven't managed to find any threads with anyone having this same problem. I just downlaoded Parallels Lite to try out running an older version of MacOS to test some things. Whenever I launch a VM I immediately get a message saying: "Network Initialization Failed. Your virtual machine will continue working normally but will have no network connection."

This happens long before the OS loads (or in the case just now after trying again, even before the OS has been installed). I've tried all of the suggested network troubleshooting option but most don't apply (I'm not running windows and the problem seems to be in Parallels not in the OS itself), and none of the others work.

I have selected "shared networking." But I have also noticed that I don't even have the option to choose bridged, and when I look at my network options it doesn't even list any of my network hardware.

I'm at a loss for what to do. I've restarted my Mac, I've uninstalled and reinstalled Parallels. I've installed parallels tools. Again the problem seems to be in parallels itself (or something in my host OS), not in the OS that's being hosted.

I'v attached a few screenshots of what I'm seeing. Please let me know if you have any questions or need any further information.

I'm running MacOS High Sierra updated to the latest version (though obviously I haven't installed Mojave yet). on my host computer. It's a 2017 5k iMac. 24GB of RAM.

Any suggestions?

 

[chrispratt247]

Is there still no official "fix" for this? I've waited months to upgrade to Big Sur and felt it would be a good time to do now. I'm a daily user of Parallels and thought that any niggles would have been resolved by now.
I'm on the latest version of Parallels but getting no networking at all. I had the Network Initialization failed message and enabled Parallels in the System Preferences Security and Privacy settings and that no longer appears.
I've tried to edit /Library/Preferences/Parallels/network.desktop.xml - but the line with <usekextless> does not exist in the file.
Any help would be greatly appreciated...

 

[lalala]

This are the first lines of mine:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ParallelsNetworkConfig schemaVersion="1.0" dyn_lists="VirtualNetworks 1">
<SystemFlags></SystemFlags>
<IPv6Enabled>1</IPv6Enabled>
<UseKextless>0</UseKextless>
<StartNaptd>-1</StartNaptd>
<NATDAllowEtcHostsWrite>1</NATDAllowEtcHostsWrite>
<UDPSendBufSize>4106</UDPSendBufSize>

 

[chrispratt247]

These are the first few lines of mine... (UseKextless does not appear anywhere within in) How strange...

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ParallelsNetworkConfig schemaVersion="1.0" dyn_lists="VirtualNetworks 1 VZNetworkConfig 0">
<SystemFlags></SystemFlags>
<IPv6Enabled>1</IPv6Enabled>
<VirtualNetworks id="0" dyn_lists="VirtualNetwork 2">
<VirtualNetwork id="0" dyn_lists="VZVirtualNetwork 0">

 

[chrispratt247]

Have manually added it now and it appears to work for me now. Many thanks.

 

[Pete248]

Glad I found this thread.
Setting "<UseKextless>0</UseKextless>" did the trick for me as well.

Unbelievable that Parallels has not fixed this bug for more than 6 months now.

 

[PSG]

...Unbelievable that Parallels has not fixed this bug for more than 6 months now.

Dev team didn't need it because problem exist only in business edition. If you try to use trial PRO version you can even delete that file and it will be created again. Business edition was intentionally messed up.

 

[Pete248]

Dev team didn't need it because problem exist only in business edition. If you try to use trial PRO version you can even delete that file and it will be created again. Business edition was intentionally messed up.

I have a PRO subscription not a business edition. The file was already present on my system but with line <UseKextless>-1</UseKextless>
Changed it to 0 and all network adapters including bond0 showed up again in Parallels.
Don't know what you are talking about.