Installing parallels tools for Kali on M1 Mac is killing me!

Discussion in 'General Questions' started by ashishy3, Jun 17, 2025 at 10:01 PM.

  1. ashishy3

    ashishy3

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    Installing parallels tools for Kali on M1 Mac has ALWAYS been a bother. But usually when remounting with exec it works. But now that isn't enough because some read only permission. So I copy the contents of the parallels tools to a folder on the desktop. Change permissions to all files in it to 777. Then I can run the installer. Done right?

    NO! I get an error about the linux headers being to new.

    Parallels version Version 19.0.0 (54570) kali-linux-2024.4-installer-arm64

    Because of...."religious" reasons I cant update parallels. My "church" is very strict on that.

    I spent an hour with deepseek trying to rebuild the installer to support it but it didn't work.

    I figured I could install an older version of Kali, install parallel tools then update. But no.

    kali-linux-2023.2-installer-arm64, kali-linux-2023.3-installer-arm64, kali-linux-2022.2-installer-arm64 None of these worked, sometimes I got different errors like that I should install linux-headers-6.1.0-kali-9-arm64 and binfmt-support and dkms and libelf-dev manually. Which neither I or chat gpt managed to do. With some versions I couldn't even get apt-get update to work.

    What in the world are you supposed to do to make it work?

    Please help!
     

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