Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic - Beta

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The 2 Oct/09 Beta release of Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala (desktop-amd64 version) installs fine in latest Parallels
VM on my 2009 13-inch MBP operating in clamshell mode with Apple 24-inch LED Cinema Display. The only
gotcha: must specify "acpi=off", both under fn-F6 in Installer (or when using liveCD) and later adding this to
/etc/default/grub as GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="acpi=off" (to be followed by "sudo update-grub" command).
Xorg correctly finds the 1920x1200 display resolution (as well as the other common Apple 16:10 resolutions).

Enjoy!
 
I was able to get the 64-bit Karmic desktop installed also, on my 15" mid-2009 mbp... however, I am unable to get parallels-tools installed. I'm using Parallels build 3846. Did you make any progress there?
 
I have tried to follow the recipe in another thread (changes to a
couple of source files), and then the compilation of the modules
succeeded, but installing those modules still failed... I'm not
spending a lot of effort here, since I don't use the functionality
of Parallels Tools anyway...

I do notice, though, that 9.10 Karmic on shutdown fails at the very
last step: power down. So, need to stop the VM manually everytime
by freeing the mouse and hitting the Stop button twice. No such
problem in an otherwise identical Debian testing (Squeeze) VM. I've
filed a bug report with Ubuntu Launchpad on this.
 
The failure to power down is because we have to disable ACPI in order to boot it up.

Do you have a link to the other thread where the changes are made to the source files?
 
I did an install of 8.10 AMD-64, installed parallels-tools, and then used update-manager to bring it up to Karmic. This at the very least retained the video driver in X.org, which is all I really cared about (dynamic resolution based on host window size). Hopefully this'll be addressed in an update pretty soon though!
 
User trixie posted the following in http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?t=91037
I also encountered this problem when upgrading an existing virtual machine from Fedora 10 to Fedora 11 via Fedora's upgrade process (as opposed to a clean install). In my case this involved a 2.6.30 kernel that was not able to load the old 2.6.27 parallels mouse and keyboard modules associated with the Fedora 10 VM. The failure messages shown during an attempted install of Parallels Tools are compiler errors and are all easily addressed by editing the source code supplied on the Parallels Tools image. What I did was mount the Parallels Tools image and then copied its contents into a directory that I own. The three files to fix are each contained in the kmods/*.tar.gz files, so it's necessary to untar those files, edit the offending .c or .h file, and then re-tar/gz them back into the archive. One file edit was to remove the _MSC_VER from an #ifdef block in ParallelsTypes.h (line 120). The other two fixes were to remove setting of the non-existent member ``owner'' from the files super.c (line 399) and prltg.c (line 765). Once all the edits were in place and the gz files reassembled, it was simply a matter of running ./install with the --force-install option from the top level of the copied parallels tools directory.
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Parallels Tools then compiles OK in Ubuntu Karmic with 2.6.31-14 AMD64 kernel, but fails on inserting the kernel module.
 
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