[9fans] Parallels 5

[9fans] Parallels 5

[Daniel Lyons]

I have a rather old VM that I made under Parallels 3 that seems to work under Parallels 5. I think I installed that one in late 2009 or early 2010. As an experiment, I tried installing the current release under Parallels 5. It installs, and pretty quickly (<5 min), but there are two small issues:

1. ps2intellimouse: scrolling works if you're scrolling down, but if you make the scroll up gesture, the mouse skitters off to the right and really doesn't scroll back up. Anyone seen this or have a tricky solution?

2. Ethernet card is not detected. I am not 100% sure there's nothing different in the configuration, but I've made the plan9.ini look the same in both VMs and still it fails to detect the NE2000 emulated ethernet card. There are also ominous messages about usbd: no hub during bootup that don't happen under the old one.

Is there a boot log somewhere I can examine for messages I may not have seen, or any other debugging information I can go looking for?

I'm downloading 9atom to compare tomorrow.

Thanks,

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Daniel Lyons

Re: [9fans] Parallels 5

[Anthony Sorace]

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I have a VM that I created under Parallels 5 and am currently running under 6. It's several months old.

> 1. ps2intellimouse: scrolling works if you're scrolling down, but if you make the scroll up gesture, the mouse skitters off to the right and really doesn't scroll back up. Anyone seen this or have a tricky solution?

I saw this for the first time today. In my case, scrolling up *also* creates occasional b2 presses. Weird. I haven't used the GUI on Parallels much for two years, so I can't help with when it was introduced.

> 2. Ethernet card is not detected. I am not 100% sure there's nothing different in the configuration, but I've made the plan9.ini look the same in both VMs and still it fails to detect the NE2000 emulated ethernet card. There are also ominous messages about usbd: no hub during bootup that don't happen under the old one.

Ethernet works here (and did under Parallels 5, as well), and I've got nothing in plan9.ini to trick it. You don't see the device at all (not just no data or whatnot)?

> Is there a boot log somewhere I can examine for messages I may not have seen, or any other debugging information I can go looking for?

/dev/kmesg will give you the console prints so far; /dev/kprint will wait for new ones (and prevent them going to your actual console).


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Re: [9fans] Parallels 5

[Daniel Lyons]

On May 6, 2011, at 1:36 AM, Anthony Sorace wrote:

> I have a VM that I created under Parallels 5 and am currently running under 6. It's several months old.

I seem to have gotten my version numbers mixed up. It's Parallels 6 over here as well.

>> 1. ps2intellimouse: scrolling works if you're scrolling down, but if you make the scroll up gesture, the mouse skitters off to the right and really doesn't scroll back up. Anyone seen this or have a tricky solution?
> 
> I saw this for the first time today. In my case, scrolling up *also* creates occasional b2 presses. Weird. I haven't used the GUI on Parallels much for two years, so I can't help with when it was introduced.
> 
>> 2. Ethernet card is not detected. I am not 100% sure there's nothing different in the configuration, but I've made the plan9.ini look the same in both VMs and still it fails to detect the NE2000 emulated ethernet card. There are also ominous messages about usbd: no hub during bootup that don't happen under the old one.
> 
> Ethernet works here (and did under Parallels 5, as well), and I've got nothing in plan9.ini to trick it. You don't see the device at all (not just no data or whatnot)?

There's no /net/ether0, so I can't run ip/ipconfig to get any further.

>> Is there a boot log somewhere I can examine for messages I may not have seen, or any other debugging information I can go looking for?
> 
> /dev/kmesg will give you the console prints so far; /dev/kprint will wait for new ones (and prevent them going to your actual console).

I don't see anything interesting there, except that it couldn't initialize usbd. Does usbd work for you?

— 
Daniel Lyons

Re: [9fans] Parallels 6

[Daniel Lyons]

On May 6, 2011, at 1:36 AM, Anthony Sorace wrote:
>> 2. Ethernet card is not detected. I am not 100% sure there's nothing different in the configuration, but I've made the plan9.ini look the same in both VMs and still it fails to detect the NE2000 emulated ethernet card. There are also ominous messages about usbd: no hub during bootup that don't happen under the old one.
> 
> Ethernet works here (and did under Parallels 5, as well), and I've got nothing in plan9.ini to trick it. You don't see the device at all (not just no data or whatnot)?

No device at all. In frustration, I added the following to my plan9.ini:

*noetherprobe=1
ether0=ne2000

This had no effect either. I didn't have to do anything interesting for the old image either, I don't think.

>> Is there a boot log somewhere I can examine for messages I may not have seen, or any other debugging information I can go looking for?
> 
> /dev/kmesg will give you the console prints so far; /dev/kprint will wait for new ones (and prevent them going to your actual console).

OK, so after so many bytes free, I get this:

cpu0: 2671MHz GenuineIntel Core i5 (cpuid: AX 0x20655 DX 0x1F8BFBFF)
ELCR: 0E80
256M memory: 105M kernel data, 151M user, 574M swap
usbinit...usbd..../boot/usbd: /dev/usb: no hubs
no usbd...no usb disk...auth...usbinit...usbd.../boot/usbd: /dev/usb: no hubs
no usbd...no usb disk...mount usbd...boot: can't open /srv/usb: '/srv/usb' file does not exist
time...
fossil(#S/sdC0/fossil)...version...time...
can't stat /srv/parts.sdXX: '/srv/partfs.sdXX' file does not exist

init: starting /bin/rc

And that's it, nothing particularly interesting. What else can I do to debug this?

Thanks,

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Daniel Lyons