[Novalug] anyone able to get parallels to run under Ubuntu Hardy?

[Bonnie Dalzell]

On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Mackenzie Morgan wrote:

MM >On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 21:11 -0400, Bonnie Dalzell wrote:
MM >> I do NOT have Software Sources > Updates hardy-the proposed box checked.
MM >> 
MM >> I do have the latest linux kernel 
MM >> 
MM >> Ubuntu 8.04, kernel 2.6.24-21-generic(2.6.24-21.32)
MM >> 
MM >> installed on my computer.
MM >> 
MM >> I did reboot into linux 2.6.24-19 after parallels would not work 
MM >> under the 2.6.24-21. Parallels still will not start up.
MM >> 
MM >> however i had installed parallels during the 21 boot.
MM >> 
MM >> do i need to remove parallels and then reinstall from a -19 boot?
MM >> 
MM >> How does that work?
MM >
MM >Hm, I'm going to guess that it tried to build the module against the
MM >running kernel (-21) even though the parallels module is for -19, so
MM >yeah, try booting into -19 and installing that way.  I don't know if the
MM >partner stuff is handled the same way as the rest of the repos, but
MM >looking at apt-cache policy, -21 is apparently in regular updates, so
MM >they *definitely* need to get a modules package up there.

well i rebooted into -19 (i think I had tried -18 because of something I 
found on the ubuntu or parallels list) and it came up fine. also it did 
not ask me for the pass key.

need to experiment further.

thanks so much for your help and suggestions.




MM >
MM >-- 
MM >Mackenzie Morgan
MM >http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com
MM >apt-get moo
MM >

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