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You can connect and mount the Parallels Tools ISO image file manually. Right-click the
CD/DVD drive icon in the virtual machine's window status bar and choose Connect Image. In
the Finder window, go to the hard disk folder (normally named "Macintosh HD"), select the
/Library/Parallels/Tools/ folder, select the prl-tools-lin.iso file, and click
Open to connect it to the virtual machine.
3 Start a terminal in your Linux guest OS. Type the following command to gain the root
privileges:
su
4 Change the directory to the CD/DVD drive directory using
cd /media/cdrom/
Note: In some of the Linux operating systems, the mount point for the virtual CD/DVD drive may appear
as /media/Parallels\ Tools/.
5 In the CD/DVD drive directory, enter the following command to launch Parallels Tools
installation:
./install
6 Follow the Parallels Tools Installer instructions to complete the installation.
7 When the installation of Parallels Tools is complete, restart your virtual machine.
Installing Parallels Tools in other versions of Linux guest OSs
To install Parallels Tools in the older versions of Linux OSs, you have to mount the prl-tools-
lin.iso image file manually. Do the following:
1 Start the virtual machine.
2 When the guest OS boots up, choose Install Parallels Tools from the Virtual Machine menu.
Note: If the Install Parallels Tools option is grayed out, make sure that your operating system
complies with the requirements for Parallels Tools installation.
The prl-tools-lin.iso image file will be connected to the virtual machine's CD/DVD drive.
3 Start a terminal in your Linux guest OS. Type the following command to gain the root
privileges:
su
4 Check if the Parallels Tools CD image is mounted by entering
mount | grep iso9660
If this command does not return anything, proceed to the next step.
If this command returns anything like
/dev/cdrom on /media/cdrom type iso9660 (ro,exec,nosuid,nodev,uid=0),
skip the next step and proceed to the following one.
If this command returns anything like
/dev/cdrom on /media/cdrom type iso9660 (ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev,uid=0)
with the noexec option present in parentheses, you need to unmount the disc using the
following command and then proceed to the next step: