Windows 7

P

planeBrad

Junior Member
I can get Windows 7 M3 to install, but I can't seem to get Parallels Tools to install either automatically or manually. I have tried setting the VM as both Windows 2008 and Vista, but I get an error saying Parallels tools can only be installed on a version of Windows NT (2000, XP, 2003).

Any ideas?
 
Sort by date Sort by votes
I do not have windows 7, but is there an option when you right click on the app, to run it "as" 98/xp/2000/etc, a compatibility mode option like exists in XP.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
I can confirm that Parallels Tools will install in Windows 7 with Parallels 4.0. However, sound does not appear to work (no drivers found), at least on my machine.

-Berylium
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
It should be listed as your D: drive (CD/DVD drive) in the VM. If you don't have a Parallels Tools "CD" in the VM I believe you can install via the Tools menu in Parallels.

The install doesn't throw out any errors like it did with Parallels 3.0, though, so I don't believe you'll have any luck running the setup.exe as an XP app.

-Berylium
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
What about Win 7 x64

Hi folks,I know Windows 7 is not a supported system at the time but there's no harm in asking for some help.

Two points:
1 - Windows 7 x64 doesn't install a ac97 driver by default for the sound.
So I downloaded one compatible with Vista 64 bits on the Realtek site (pci/1022746d) and it installed fine.
But it doesn't work fine ,the sound output is jerky.

2 - For me the tools never installed.
I tried differents compatibility modes (Vista RTM and Server 2003 which is no good because the msi package has specific checks for VersionNT<=600 (Vista and above)).


In fact I read the install log and the error is :
DIFXAPP: ERROR - The operating system you are running on is not supported. Only Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Windows codenamed Longhorn are supported.
Click to expand...

which happened at the MsiProcessDrivers installation phase.

I manage to install almost all drivers by hand by snatching the uncompressed ParallelsTools folder before the rollback erased it,the video driver doesn't work(unsupported system),and some drivers need that the hypervisor generate virtual device nodes.

My question is what to do to
1 - install those tools
or 2 - have access to the custom install gui (since i know that the custom install dialogs are in the msi)
or 3 - install those services and missing drivers by hand.

Since people reported success tell us what to do in detail.

I didn't understand one answer from John
Actually you can try installation Parallels Tools installation as for Windows 2008
Click to expand...
What do you mean? There's no Windows Server 2008 compatibility mode so you weren't talking about that.
What is this special procedure you're alluding to to install the tools on Server 2008 (and can it be used for our purpose here ?)

Thanks in Advance.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Just installed the latest pre-alpha on parallels4, all went smoothly. I chose Windows 2008 as a setup, then once windows was setup i installed parallels tools. This enabled everything other than the sound drivers.

A quick trip to windows update and they had the intel AC97 audio drivers available as an optional update, downloaded and installed, now all is up and running!!

Quite smooth actually, seems a bit nippier than Vista.

Cheers

Gareth
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
no luck

i haven't been able to install parallels tools for windows 7 64bit.
will it work for the 32bit version?

is there anyway to force install the tools, because everytime i try to install these, it has an error, reboots, and doesn't work.
the main problem being that windows can't connect to the internet.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Network can be got to work by clicking the 'install PT' option to mount the iso. Then go to Device Manager, find your network card and upgrade driver, pointing it to search the iso image. Once network is up and running, update should sort out your sound driver.

What I can't find is a way to improve the graphics! Any suggstions anyone?
Salamat
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Thanks for the network help Salamat. It works perfect!

I've got one last question about upgrading to Parallels 4... Right now I have Windows 7 running fine in a Windows Vista Parallels VM, if I upgrade to Parallels 4 will the Windows 7 install work fine or will I need to reinstall it?
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top