Temporary fix for kernel 3.19

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AndrewH1

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So, I thought I would quickly hack-up a fix for kernel 3.19. It is messy and not guaranteed to work in every case but it will do for me for now. I have created it for 10.2.0 since that is what I use.

To install:
* Copy the parallels tools files somewhere
* Enter the kmods directory and extract the prl_mods.tar.gz file
* Move the .tar.gz somewhere safe
* Unzip and apply my patch (patch -p1 < parallels-tools-3.19-patch.diff)
* Compress the files again (tar -zcvf prl_mods.tar.gz *)
* Drop down a directory and run the installed (sudo ./install)

It appears to be basically down to certain FS structs in the kernel becoming opaque in 3.19.
 

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Thanks very much, the patch worked for me with NST (Fedora Core 20 based) and also openSUSE Tumbleweed.

One small correction. To compress the files again, the command is tar -zcvf prl_mods.tar.gz, which I'm sure you know but maybe someone else doesn't know.
 
As a side note, Parallels finally responded:

"Andrew, the issue you have reported is caused by the major changes in the last Linux kernel. Parallels Desktop Development Team is currently working to address it.
While we do not have ETA for the fix, it has been prioritized appropriately and you can track the changes in the product at http://kb.parallels.com/122720
We will create a new ticket should we have an update or more questions for you.
Thanks for reporting this problem - through honest feedback, good or bad, we are able to provide better products and services to all members of the Parallels Community."
 
unfortunately nothing can be done about Xorg 1.17 until parallels fixes it. It is a proprietary driver so can't be recompiled for the latest Xorg by the community. I tried using the 1.16 driver with 1.17 but it is not ABI compatible.
Given that Ubuntu 15.04 is to be released in 9 days time I hope there will be an update soon.
 
Let's just hope they also add support for 3.20/4.0 at the same time; I don't like having to go back to VirtualBox as I actually like Parallels most of the time.
 
thanks Andrew for the patch, but didn't seem to help me much with this issue. i'll not bother trying to hack this any further and would rather start using VMWare fusion.
good bye parallels!
 
Yeah I've just had my refund confirmed. I've actually just gone back to VirtualBox. Updates are quicker and the performance isn't as bad as it once was.

If that doesn't work, I'll go to VMWare but never back to Parallels. The lack of feedback and support isn't worth the money.
 
Thanks @@AndrewH1 for the patch. I have applied your patch, but I don't know how to create ISO file for parallel tools, one I have prepared doesn't mounted successful on UBUNTU.
 
I'm trying to patch 'kmods' directory, but the terminal asks me 'file to patch'. I insert the '/tmp/kmods' directory, but is wrong: "/root/Desktop/tmp/kmods" is not a regular file... can't patch.
which file i have to patch exactly?
 
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Hi All,
This issue has been addressed in the latest update of Parallels Desktop for Mac, build 10.2.1 (29006).
Latest update Resolved an issue with installing Parallels Tools on Linux virtual machines with kernel 3.19.1
Please refer the update summary at http://kb.parallels.com/122720
 
Ram@Parallels said:
Hi All,
This issue has been addressed in the latest update of Parallels Desktop for Mac, build 10.2.1 (29006).
Latest update Resolved an issue with installing Parallels Tools on Linux virtual machines with kernel 3.19.1
Please refer the update summary at http://kb.parallels.com/122720
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I cannot install parallel tools in Kali Linux 1.3, even though there appears to have been a fix in the last Parallels update.
I am running parallell 10.2.1, however I am unable to install parallel tools using kernel 3.18. Is this a known problem?
I receive the error message: "an error occured while downloading required components for PAralle Tools installation: - Kernel sources. Install these components and try again"
I have updated everything with "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade". I'm not sure what else I can do.
I have copied the tools file to /tmp, changed permissions (chmod -R 777), but whatever I do I still receive the same error message.
I also saw in a forum that you can change a few lines of code in file: pvmnet.c (/kmods/prl_eth/pvmnet/pvmnet.c) - changing the part around line #96 to the following:
dev = alloc_netdev(..., ..., NET_NAME_ENUM, pvmnet_setup):
which basically removes the 'if linux_version>3.17'

Any further idea to try before I attempt a random patch that works for people using other (older) debian packages?
 
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