Parallels tools not installed

Hi,

After installing Windows7 home premium as a virtual machine I see a message at the bottom of the window asking me to install parallels tools from the VM menu

When i try to do this nothing happens.

Also, I cannot seem to gain access to the internet whilst in the windows environment.

Any suggestions?

Ian

 

you may want to try manually mounting the Parallels Tools installer. Parallels menu Devices -> CD/DVD1 -> Configure -> open the pull-down menu for selection of the CD/DVD source -> and then go to the place where you have the updater image; possibly the image will need to be mounted on the Mac (I don't remember). The Parallels tools image for Windows is called prl-tools-img.iso. On my machine that image is already listed in the pull-down menu. Good luck!

 

Also after mounting the image with either Shaddam's way or after clickling the proper menu-item (as described in the message), try to click MyComputer -> "CDRom (d". It is because Parallels Tools installation can not start if Autorun in Windows is disabled for some reason

 

Oh, and once you've installed the tools, internet access should work