Hi everybody, sorry in advance if this question has been already answered. Is there any plan to release (at least part of) the Parallels Tools as open-source and integrate them in the most Linux distributions? VMware has a similar initiative (both with their open-vm-tools, and Xorg server driver) so that there is no need to install/upgrade the tools. Once the package is installed from the distro it can be update there. BTW, I'm available to support the package integration process - I have previous experience with Debian/Ubuntu. Best Ale
@AlessandroDN , I posted the exact same question about an year ago and I did not get any official participation . It is really sad. I wish Parallels was a bit smarter and would understand that making that part of their software open source will remove a lot of burden from their engineers. I am still hopeful, since on Mac it PD is the only decent virtualisation solution that does not have a long list of issues (and the only GUI that supports Apple's hypervisor).
@GalaxyMaster totally agree with you. I love how Parallels cleverly use the Apple Hypervisor framework, and I'm a big fun of the parallels version in the App Store, a version underestimated from parallels itself. It's really a shame, the product is very good, perfectly integrated in macOS, though mostly aimed at running Windows. To me VMWare offers a better user experience with macOS and Linux guests: Linux tools is a pain with every new release of the kernel macOS guests are barely usable with their slowness I wish Parallels will understand the power of the community, people ready to make the product better.