Debian 9 "Stretch" on Parallels 12.1.3 not working

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UlrichJ2

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I have a quite strange problem: When Debian Stretch starts, the text in the VM window blinks during startup of Debian. Then it stops but does not start GDM. When i switch with ctrl-alt-2 and log in as root, I can start GDM with startx.
With Parallel Tools installed the quest crashes when the VM was not used for 5 or 10 minutes. It begins blinking an jumping to the console and back to the graphical screen.

Has anyone successfully installed Debian 9 Stretch RC2 on Parallels? (if someone has it on VMware I am happy as well)
 
For now I suggest to workaround this issue by switching to lightdm display manager. Just apt-get install lightdm and select it as a default manager.
 
Hello, same situation here. Now, launching startx directly I get a "no screens found (EE)".
Also the "parallels tools install" menu entry is greyed. Any remaining option ?

Thanks in advance,
Aurélien.
 
> Hello, same situation here. Now, launching startx directly I get a "no screens found (EE)".
What's yours Parallels Desktop version?
 
Aurélien, try to remove Parallels Tools first by running this command in guest under root:
/usr/lib/parallels-tools/install -r
And then install Tools once again. If it doesn't work please share full guest's /var/log/Xorg.0.log.
 
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