New to Bodhi, Parallels Desktop virtual machine on an iMac

New to Bodhi, Parallels Desktop virtual machine on an iMac Dec 13, 2020 9:07:14 GMT

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Post by fidoedidoe on Dec 13, 2020 9:07:14 GMT

Dec 11, 2020 8:46:15 GMT gill1109 said:

I’m new to Bodhi; retired mathematician in the Netherlands. I play with Linux distros on a newish iMac with the help of Parallels Virtual Desktop.

Whether or not it will be fun depends very much on whether or not I can install Parallels tools into the Bodhi machine. I could carry out the installation (one connects an iso and runs an installation script). Usually this results in getting fantastic screen resolution, dynamically resizable, and various interface facilities between host system and virtual machine. But the screen resolution remained grim and the interface facilities were not available.

Anybody have any relevant experience or other suggestions?

Hi gill1109 welcome to the Bodhi Linux community! I've no first hand experience of of Parallels on an iMac. The latest stable version of Bodhi (Version 5.1.0) is built upon Ubuntu 18.0.4.4. If Parallels has been proven to work well with Ubuntu 18.04 (?) then I can't see whey it wouldn't work for Bodhi. Do take a look at our Wiki to determine the right flavour to try (I'd recommend Standard / HWE - HWE is like Standard but includes a more modern kernel and regular kernel updates). Installation instructions on the wiki can be found here - you can skip with create USB creation section.

Assuming you're successful, if you could post your finds/experience back into this thread - I'd be more than happy to add it into our Wiki for others to follow (with your permission).

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New to Bodhi, Parallels Desktop virtual machine on an iMac

Post by gill1109 on Dec 11, 2020 8:46:15 GMT

Post by fidoedidoe on Dec 13, 2020 9:07:14 GMT