[patch] Support for kernel 5.18 (Parallel Tools 17.1.4.51567)

It is interesting to mention that Parallels 18.1.0.53311 claimed to have fixed the installation for CentOS 9 Stream on arm64 but that is not true.
Latest kernel on CentOS 9 Stream seems to be 5.14.0-191.el9.aarch64

Looking at the logs I can easily see how compilation of inode.c failed due to no member names set_page_dirty. I wonder how hard is to really test this before claiming that it is working, not to mention that displaying the error on screen would far better than hiding it under a TUI wizard.
 
Especially since kernel 6.1.8 was just released...
Folks, as long as Intel Macs are no longer being built, this really is a lost cause on so many levels.
 
Nothing to really add except to give massive props to @Mark Fine for all his work on this. Pretty staggering to read people suggesting the help provided isn't enough.. when he's not even a Parallels employee as far as I can tell.

I've just installed the latest Centos Stream 9 on a M1 Mac, with latest Parallels (18.2.0 (53488)) and naturally the tools don't install, "set_page_dirty" being the culprit.

Pretty poor show from Parallels in sorting these problems promptly (or at all) that it takes a community member having to step in and hold everyone's hands to get things moving forwards.
 
sbarnea said:
It is interesting to mention that Parallels 18.1.0.53311 claimed to have fixed the installation for CentOS 9 Stream on arm64 but that is not true.
Latest kernel on CentOS 9 Stream seems to be 5.14.0-191.el9.aarch64

Looking at the logs I can easily see how compilation of inode.c failed due to no member names set_page_dirty. I wonder how hard is to really test this before claiming that it is working, not to mention that displaying the error on screen would far better than hiding it under a TUI wizard.
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Follow the unpackaging instructions in this post, and change line 861 from:

#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(5, 18, 0)
to
#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(5, 14, 0)

Parallels Tools will then install properly. This was tested on 5.14.0-267.el9.aarch64, Parallels 18.2.0 (53488) on a M1 Mac.
 
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