'The solutions and answers provided on Experts Exchange have been extremely helpful to me over the last few years. I wear a lot of hats - Developer, Database Administrator, Help Desk, etc., so I know a lot of things but not a lot about one thing. Install or upgrade to Parallels Desktop 14 for Mac from my current version. Visit KB 124250. Install Windows in Parallels Desktop for Mac. Visit KB 4729. Migrate my current Windows PC to a Parallels Desktop for Mac virtual machine. For instructions, visit KB 123929. Register and activate Parallels Desktop 14 for Mac. Visit KB 124225.
Well, in the past we used to use Parallels' deployment package to wrap their installer, and/or any VMs to deploy: Interesting how Parallels Desktop 11 for Mac appears to have the application at the top level of their downloadable DMG, although it is hidden so you may not notice. $ ls -l /Volumes/Parallels Desktop 11/ total 0 drwxr-xr-x 3 montd1199 102 Aug 15 20:22 Install.app drwxr-xr-x@ 4 montd1199 136 Aug 15 20:22 Parallels Desktop.app $ Copying the to /Applications works fine on a test Mac, although I haven't tried suppressing stuff. $ sudo cp -R /Volumes/Parallels Desktop 11/Parallels Desktop.app /Applications/Parallels Desktop.app bash-3.2# ls -l /Applications/ grep Parallels drwxr-xr-x@ 4 root admin 136 Aug 25 22:04 Parallels Desktop.app $ Working with Parallels Priority support to get all suppression stuff documented, some of the steps are not in their prlctl/prlsrvctl man pages, will share once sorted out. On a side note, I wonder if this app has been sandboxed? Uninstall is surprisingly straight forward (drag app to trash). Anyone hit this yet? We haven't had luck getting El Capitan to install within Parallels Desktop 11 for Mac.
Looks like folks on the Parallels forum are having the same problem(s). We're hoping to provide never-booted El Capitan virtual machines. Users will have admin rights and will need to install the tools on the virtual machines. Once Apple/JAMF start supporting El Capitan, we'll be able to leverage existing processes to get these things up and running.
I'd start a thread there, since their engineers are monitoring El Capitan / Parallels 11 threads. I just created a package for 11.1.2 without problems.
I did run into an issue with the deploy.cfg file and using one of the options. Here's what I sent to Parallels Support: After a bit of troubleshooting, the issue appears with one setting in the deploy.cfg. All other values I'm choosing work fine except this one: startpdasservice='no' # startpdasservice='yes' The following combinations work just fine which I expected since that's the default value anyways: # startpdasservice='no' startpdasservice='yes' or # startpdasservice='no' # startpdasservice='yes' I suspect there may be an error in how it's handling the disabling of Parallels as a service. That should hopefully give more information for the engineer who looks into my request.
Parallels Support response: As we discussed during our recent phone conversation feature 'Start Parallels Desktop as a service' has been replaced in a newer version of Parallels Desktop 11. Therefore, please disable (comment) the following options in the deploy.cfg file: # startpdasservice='no' # startpdasservice='yes' You can find some additional information in regards to using 'Headless' Parallels Desktop feature under the following article However, 'Headless' feature can't be currently implemented in deploy package. This issue is under investigation and will be fixed in one of our future updates. If this is not related to your problem, I would start with a fresh deploy.cfg and start enabling each option you want one by one until you find the problem. That's how I ran into this particular problem.
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Please note that some bundles come with installation included. Double-click the Parallels Desktop 10 installation file with the.dmg extension that you received from the Tech Store, and it will be mounted to Finder.
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Then double-click the Install icon. Enter your Mac user password to begin installation. If you are upgrading to Parallels Desktop 10 from a previous version, you will be prompted to replace the old version. Click Replace to remove your current version of Parallels Desktop and install Parallels Desktop 10. When the installation is complete, you can create a new virtual machine and begin installing Windows 8. For instructions, see:.
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