trouble installing Parallels Tools in RHEL5.3VM

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I have a working Red Hat Enterprise Linux Virtual machine running in Parallels 4.0 on Mac OS 10.4.11. When selecting "Virtual Machine => Install Parallels Tools" I get the mounted volume "/media/Parallels Tools". Trying to activate the install file with the mouse does nothing. Going to "File => open in terminal" and typing "sh install" as root gives an error: "install line 334 ./install/installer.x86_64:Permission denied".

line 334 of install reads: "FLAG_CHECK_GUI='Yes' '$GUI_INSTALLER.$X64'"

The GUI_INSTALLER is set earlier in the install script to: "$INSTALLER_DIR/installer"

Could this be an error from the space in the default name of the mount point (/media/Parallels Tools)? I noticed that other versions seem to mount to /mnt/cdrom or something similar.

Your help is appreciated.
 
I have successfully installed Parallels Tools in CentOS 5.3. These are the steps I followed (from memory, so you should check things a bit):

Install the OS. Apply all available updates and reboot (especially the kernel updates).
Change the SELinux status to Disable and reboot. The reboot will take a little while. Log in as root.
Select Install Parallels Tools, which will mount the CD image.
Copy everything in the image to a folder on your desktop, or anyplace else both writable and convenient.
Change the permissions of the binaries so that they are executable; it won't hurt to make everything executable in the copied folder.
Run the installer, which should now succeed.
Re-enable SELinux and reboot. The reboot will take some time, so don't worry.
Delete the installation directory if you want.

Note that in my case, I had a program (ModelSim) in which drag-and-drop didn't work correctly unless I disabled the mouse capture functionality in Parallels Tools. Hope this helps. Also note that the VM will default to a rather low video RAM; if you can't get a full-size screen, that's probably why.

Best,
David
 
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