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Parallels is virtualization software for Macintosh computers.

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Prevent disk renumbering on reboot in OSX

I have 3 physical drives in my Mac Pro with OSX 10.6.4. Occasionally after rebooting the machine, the disk numbering changes such that the /dev/disk# does not reference the same drive as it did before ...
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No core dump on Ubuntu on a Parallels shared folder

I have an application that I'm working on, and I'm having trouble getting a core dump when it segfaults. In fact, I'm having trouble getting real core dump files at all. A simple test case will ...
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i3-wm not resizing screen resolution on login

I'm using Parallels for the Mac, but this may be relevant to other VMs too. Using Ubuntu 14.04, when I login using Unity it resizes the screen and uses all available screens (2 in my case), perfect. ...
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How to Increase Screen Resolution in Linux Mint. (Parallels and iMac)

I'm very new to Linux and I've decided to install Linux Mint on a Virtual Machine on my iMac 27 inch using Parallels 7. But, the screen resolution is stuck at 800x600 and there are no options in the ...
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Parallels on Mac - can no longer sudo within Ubuntu

I have been using Parallels on my Mac to run Ubuntu for a couple of weeks and it's been fine. Today I tried to install a package and received the following error: {user} is not in the sudoers ...
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How to run Amazon Linux 2 on Apple Silicon

Amazon Linux 2 -- historically a cloud offering -- is also offered as an on-premise solution for various setups. The two most popular on-premise solutions are: Virtual Machine (e.g. KVM, Oracle ...
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How can I fix crashed Cinnamon?

I get an error after logining to computer. It returns the message Cinnamon just crashed. You are currently running in fallback mode. Do you want to restart Cinnamon? I selected Yes, but it had still ...
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Apple Mac / Pop!OS keyboard issues

Apple Mac Pro (early 2009) Full size slim aluminium keyboard with extended layout. UK edition .4.1 -> 5.1 firmware upgraded macOS 10.13.4 High Sierra Parallels 13 for Apple Mac Parallels Tools Pop!...
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All Domains Missing After Plesk Parallels Upgrade From 11 To 12

I've just used the Parallels upgrade service (autoinstaller in terminal). I upgraded from Parallels 11 to 12. I logged into the panel, it asked me all the personal info and I started to get nervous. ...
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MacBook Pro Parallels (Kali) Linux Limited Screen Resolution

I installed Kali Linux 2.0 in a virtual machine running Parallels on my 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display. For some reason the max resolution is 1920x1200. I have Parallels graphics set to '...
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CentOS 7 installation falls back to text-mode on Parallels Server Mac VM

Every time I am trying to install CentOS 7 in Parallels Server Mac, the installation wizard falls back to text-mode. I am getting this error: X startup failed, falling back to text mode Default ...
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Parallels Tools breaks SFML

so I created a clean VM of Xubuntu 14.04.2 in Parallels 10.2.1 and I got SFML working properly with sudo apt-get install libsfml-dev. Then I rebooted and made sure it still worked, and after that the ...
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Debian Jessie (8) using the Parallels desktop

I have installed the Debian Jessie (8) using the Parallels desktop in the MacBook Pro host. It goes fine for some time and now I keep getting message, some of the required kernel modules are missing. ...
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Does Parallels support 3.18.0-kali3-amd64?

I'm not able to find information on which kernels Parallels supports. I'm trying to figure out if Parallels 10.1 supports this kernel since Parallels Tools will not install no matter what I try. ...
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Why zsh doesnt have shift+arrow (left/rigth/up/down) shortcut on VM ARM machines?

I'm a new user of ARM arch (MacOS main OS) laptop, and I don't know why the VM I installed doesn't have this shortcut. Anyone knows how to add this type of shortcut? I tried a lot of different stuff ...
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