September 2, 2016

1. Convert Parallels Desktop To Virtualbox
2. Import Parallels Vm Into Virtualbox
3. Convert Parallel To Virtualbox

To Configure and Use Parallels 15 ($50) Which Program: VirtualBox (Recommended), Boot Camp, or Parallels. VirtualBox (Recommended): 4Help's Get Connected program highly encourages the use of a VirtualBox image. The advantages are that is an easy process, and the VirtualBox software is free. E2.1Digital%Electronics%2% Department%of%EEE% Head7start%with%DE0% ImperialCollegeLondon% v1.1%7%PYKCheung,%28%Oct%2014% 1% Departmentof%Electrical%&%Electronic. I've been searching the discussions on problems with importing Parallels VMs. I can't find my specific problem. When I select File/Import and navigate to my Parallels VM folder, I see the two.pvm files for my XP and Linux Vms. They are grayed out. I can't select either one. I don't get far enough t.

The 31st of August I removed Parallels Tools from a virtual machinerunning Ubuntu 15.10 because the grace period of 7 days, so'generously' given by Parallels after I didn't renew my subscription,had ended. Somehow this company considers it a smart move to maketheirsoftware useless if one no longer pays. Iunderstand removing some functionality, like for example no longerable to create new virtual machines, but this? No, too close toransomware for my taste. Especially since Parallels Desktop needs tobe updated often, either to deal with changes in the host operatingsystem, OS X, or changes in the guest operating systems.

Anyway, to be honest, it was always my plan to eventually move mywork, as a freelance Perl programmer to OS X. One of the reasons Ibought a Mac mini. However, I was expecting the move to be a bit moreon my terms, less forced. To make the transition more gradual, Idecided to move the Ubuntu 15.10 virtual machine to VirtualBox.

Uninstalling Parallels Tools

To run things smoother Parallels Desktop can make modifications to aguest operating system installed in a virtual machine. Because I wasafraid these modifications are going to conflict with VirtualBox afterthe migration, I uninstalled Parallels Tools. Tokyo majin gakuen kenpucho tou episode 1.

Wednesday, I tried the first solution given atHow to uninstall Parallels Tools in Ubuntu Linux,which didn't work for me. Luckily there was alternative given, aneasier one in my opinion, running just one command:

And this did the trick.

Since it was already late I decided to do the rest of the requiredmove the coming days.

Uninstalling an old version of VirtualBox

While writing this all down I noticed that I had already an olderversion of VirtualBox installed on my Mac mini, version 5.0.16 r105871to be exact. Instead of just updating it I decided to uninstallit. But first I removed a bunch of virtual machines which I no longerneeded; I was no longer working on the project requiring those. Thisfreed up quite some harddisk space on my Mac.

In the end I kept three VMs; sparkvm which I used during twoedX courses, Windows XP with SP3, andUbuntu 15.10. The later was my go to VM when Parallels Desktop had amajor issue with a Compiz update. I actually wanted to decommisionthat one by comparing files to a recent backup, but it won't let memount an external USB drive. I got an error dialog with the followingmessage.

Failed to attach the USB deviceWestern Digital My Passport 0820[1007] to the virtual machine Ecce15.10 Watch spice world movie free online.

When I clicked details I read:

Failed to create a proxy device for the USBdevice. (Error: VERR_PDM_NO_USB_PORTS).

Followed by some more technical details regarding the issue. Hopefullythis is fixed in the version I am about to install as I really need tobe able to access external USB devices, especially hard disks.

Edit: enabling 'USB 3.0 (xHCI) Controller' in the settings most likelyfixes this issue, see below, near the end of this blog post.

I exported each virtual machine to a file using the 'ExportAppliance..' option in the File menu of VirtualBox. Next, I deletedeach virtual machine. Since I use Time Machine I am not too worried ifthe export of the virtual machines fails at one point; rolling back is easy.

Next, I uninstalled VirtualBox not by just deleting the program fromthe Applications folder but by actually running the uninstaller whichcame with it in the file I had downloaded months ago;VirtualBox-5.0.16-105871-OSX.dmg. The reason for this is thatVirtualBox installs several kernel extensions (kexts), which are notdeleted by just removing the app from the Applicationsdirectory. Those kexts can be listed as follows:

The Perl one liner is used to print just the name and version numberof only the org.virtualbox kexts.

So after I had removed (deleted) the three remaining virtual machinesand quit VirtualBox I ran the DMG and selectedVirtualBox_Uninstall.tool. After confirming that I was sure to openthe script a terminal window was opened in which I had to confirm theuninstall by typing 'yes'. Next the process prompted me for a passwordto grant it administrative privileges.

After the script reported [Process completed] I closed thewindow. When I ran the above kextstat pipe again, no lines showedup; the kernel extensions had been unloaded.

Downloading and Installing VirtualBox 5.1

I downloaded VirtualBox 5.1.4 for OS X via the officialVirtualBox download page.When I opened the downloaded DMG a dialog showed up. I followed theinstallation instructions given and double clicked theVirtualBox.pkg icon. The installer wanted to run a program todetermine if the software can be installed, so I clicked Continue, andagain in the installer dialog window itself, followed by a click onInstall. After I entered my password VirtualBox was installed.

Migrating the Parallels Virtual Machine

I migrated my Ubuntu 15.10 Parallels Desktop virtual machine usinginstructions by Jummywhich I have written out less concise below.

• Use Finder to open the Parallels directory located in Documents

• Select the virtual machine

• Open the context menu and select 'Show Package Contents'

• Select the file with the extension hdd; in my case Ubuntu Linux-0.hdd.

• Open the context menu and select 'Show Package Contents'

• Locate the file with extension hds and copy it to a differentlocation. This is the largest file, in my case over 180GB.

  Note that if your virtual machine is large, like in my case, it cantake quite some time to make a copy of it.

• Open VirtualBox and click the 'New' icon to create a new VirtualMachine. In my case I used:

  • Name: Ubuntu 15.10
  • Type: Linux
  • Version: Ubuntu (64-bit)

• Select the amount of memory; I used 4096 MB (4G).

• Move the file with the hds extension you copied earlier into thesubdirectory of VirtualBox VMs with the same name as given to thevirtual machine you're creating. The VirtualBox VMs directory islocated in your home directory. Change the extension of the file tohdd.

  I used:

• Important: in the Hard Disk step select 'Use an existing virtualhard disk file' and select the file you just moved. In my caseUbuntu 15.10.hdd.
• Click create.
• Start the virtual machine.

In my case this worked!

I logged in, no problem. Next I shut down the virtual machine becauseI wanted to install the VirtualBox extension pack first to test USBsupport, followed by installing the Guest Additions in my migratedvirtual machine.

Installing the VirtualBox Extension Pack

I downloaded VirtualBox 5.1.4 extension pack via the officialVirtualBox download page.After the download finished I just opened the extensionpack. VirtualBox asked for confirmation and I clicked Install. Next,I had to agree with the 'VirtualBox Personal Use and EvaluationLicence (PUEL)', which I did by clicking on the 'I Agree' button. Ientered my password and nearly immediately the message that theextension pack was installed successfully showed up.

Installing Guest Additions

I started the migrated virtual machine and logged in. From the'Devices' menu I selected the bottom entry 'Insert Guest Additions CDImage..'. Ubuntu asked if I wanted to run the software; I confirmed.After I had entered my password the installation process started.

When the installation was done I pressed Return to close the window,as suggested by the installer and rebooted the virtual machine. Afterlogging in I was not able to change the desktop resolution to anythinghigher than 1024 x 768. Worse, I still could not access a USB drive.

To fix the latter I Googled for VERR_PDM_NO_USB_PORTS, a code givenin the details of the error message, and found the solution. I had tostop the virtual machine, open the settings and in the USB tab of'Ports' enable 'USB 3.0 (xHCI) Controller'. After I had done this Istarted the virtual machine once more. And this time I could use theexternal hard disk.

The resolution, however, is still stuck at a maximum of 1024x 768. It's not that important as I want to migrate the coming weeksto OS X, and this minor nuisance might make this happen sooner thanlater.

Descargar matlab full. For backup and testing purpose i keep a virtualized version of my webserver running under Parallels Desktop for Mac on my mac.

Recently Dell had some very convenient offers on their PowerEdge machines and i could barely resist to buy one, but finally, i managed to: cut the crap, i don’t want to have even more boxes standing around at home.

But i was thinking again: Whats better than one backup? Redundant backups 🙂

So i downloaded a copy of Parallels Workstation to install it on my PC at work. Equipt with a DVD and my image file from Parallels Desktop, i fired up the PC Version and after fiddling around with some pathes i can confirm that the Parallels Desktop 3.x vms are compatible with Parallels Workstation 2.x vms, at least a vm with a Debian OS inside.

Convert Parallels Desktop To Virtualbox

But to me, performance was poor. My mac is a 2Ghz Core2Duo Mac Book with 3GB Ram, my Pc is a 2.66 Core2Duo Dell with 2GB Ram and Parallels Workstation was way slower on the PC than unter OS X. In addition: I didn’t want to spend another 50$ for Parallels (i already bought versions 2 and 3 for Mac, should be enough), so i thought about alternatives on my PC running Windows XP as host.

I already knew about QEMU which in contrast to Parallels and VMWare is a processor emulator and not a virtualization tool and therefore must be slower. I recommend the QEMU Manager for Windows Users, as this thingy already contains the kqemu virtualization extension.

Installation is dead simple and to my surprise, it was enough to convert my Parallels extending image with the Parallels Image Tool to a plain disk which i could use without further changes with QEMU.

Debian is very stable against the few “hardware” changes. The only problem i had that Debian wouldn’t find my eth0 device although the Realtek 8139too module was loaded. Solutions: The ethxxx devices are bound to the hardware (mac) address. I could look up the mac address in the Parallels configuration file, add this number in the QEMU config and voila, everything was up and running.

Somewhat complicated is bridged networking with QEMU. First you need the TAP-Win32 driver which is brought to you by the great OpenVPN project. The most simple way to install is through OpenVPN Gui for Windows.

After install add a new TAP device through the startmenu entry and then, the clou: There are some howtos which recommend enable bridged networking through the Internet Connection Sharing facilities of windows but it’s much simpler than that: Under network connections, select your default LAN Connection, the tap device, right click and choose bridge networks.

After that, change the network mode in your QEMU vm from user networking to tap networking and you’re ready to go.

Performance was quite good (at least at Parallels speed) but i guessed, there was room for more so i look for VMWare. Unfortunately, the QEMU image tool qemu-img.exe repeatedly crashed while converting my Parallels Image to the vmdk format so this was a dead end for me.

Although the Parallels image worked fine with QEMU and later on also in our Oracle VM Server as a hw virtualized XEN machine, i was not content and i looked out for VirtualBox which is available under a GPL license without USB support which i don’t need, but is able to use Intel VT-x and AMD-V technology.

I needed to convert the Parallels image from a raw disk format to innoteks vdi format, following the steps explained here.

All the tools mentioned there are also available under a Windows installation of QEMU and Virtualbox. Commands as follow:

For bridged networking unter VirtualBox the same applies as to QEMU without the need for OpenVPN, you can add a TAP device right from within VirtualBox . If you already have the bridged described above, you can add the VirtualBox interface with a right click to that bridge. Also, to have Debian not change the eth number, add the same mac address in the network tap of VirtualBox.

All this said and done, booting the system was blazing fast and also the backup of my Daily Fratze project which is pulled via rsync from my server, runs extremly smooth and i have absolutely no hassle setting up Ruby on Rails, RMagick and MySQL under the Windows “Operating System” but can use Debian or any other distro with a sane environment.

After fiddling around with both VMWare and VirtualBox, i’d prefer VirtualBox over VMWare Server (which is also available for free {i.e. for giving VMWare your personal data}). VirtualBox has less overhead then VMWare Server, is simple to configure and as i said, amazingly fast.

When the OS X version leaves beta, i’ll switch from Parallels on my Mac to VirtualBox, at least for my server live backup, so i can make it redundant with the one some kilometres away (call me paranoid if you like) at my workplaces PC.

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