Running Parallels Desktop 8 for Mac on Mac OS X Mavericks 10.9

[JesseC]

Hi there:
anyone starts getting hands on Mavericks DP2?

 

[Thanner]

Hi there:
anyone starts getting hands on Mavericks DP2?

Works for me ...

 

[jhfenton]

Hi there:
anyone starts getting hands on Mavericks DP2?

It works for me. I had one "Parallels has recovered from a serious error" message upon rebooting my Win 8 VM machine after installing a minor update inside the VM, but I haven't been able to reproduce the problem.

On a positive note, the "spaces" problem I had under DP1 is no longer present. in Full Screen mode, both my Win 8 VM and my Ubuntu 13.04 VM properly take over the front "space" on each monitor. As I described above, under DP1, the Parallels window intended for the secondary display would end up in the background on the primary display. Now each window finds the correct display.

John

 

[GeoffreyZ]

With DP2 I'm having trouble with the Parallels ethernet driver in Windows 8 x64 (Boot Camp). I've tried reinstalling Parallels Tools but the network adapter is listed as unavailable. The only solution I've found was to import the Intel PRO/1000 MT drivers from a Windows 7 x64 Parallels virtual machine, restart the system with driver signing enforcement disabled and force a manual installation of the driver. My network connection is then available in Parallels, but upon restarting in normal boot mode the adapter is again unavailable. Can anyone provide a digitally signed driver for Windows 8 x64 that I can try?

Update:
I was able to update the Parallels ethernet driver with an Intel(R) PRO/1000 Mobile Network Connection driver from the Microsoft Update web site. The driver version is 8.3.14, which is not as recent as the 8.4.10 version I'd found in the Windows 7 virtual machine, but it does have a digital signature recognised by Windows 8.

 

[RichardMSC]

Here's something I worked out earlier for Parallels 8 Desktop.

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So, Parallels 8 doesn't run natively under Mavericks, as it doesn't seem to be able to load the kernel extensions.

Load them manually via kextutil:

Terminal - go to Applications/Parallels Desktop/Contents/Library/Extensions/10.6

sudo kextutil prl_hypervisor.kext/
sudo kextutil prl_vnic.kext/
sudo kextutil prl_hid_hook.kext/
sudo kextutil -d ./prl_hypervisor.kext prl_netbridge.kext/
sudo kextutil prl_usb_connect.kext

Then start Parallels Desktop, and your guests should start up again.

You may need to re-set networking within the guest.

Not sure how stable this is going to be, but appears to be working at the moment.

Have fun now,
Mat

I tried this workaround but it didnt work. I upgraded to Maverick. I am running PDM8 and the guest OS is Windows 8. When I run the sudo commands I got this response every time and the problem starting the VM persisted :

Code Signing Failure: code signature is invalid
kext com.parallels.kext.xxxxxxxx 800009000 is in exception list, allowing to load
kext com.parallels.kext.xxxxxxxx 800009000 is in exception list, allowing to load

Here is a copy of the commands I entered and the results of each:
rbms-Macbook-Pro-2:10.6 rmarotta$ sudo kextutil prl_hypervisor.kext/
Diagnostics for prl_hypervisor.kext:
Code Signing Failure: code signature is invalid
kext com.parallels.kext.hypervisor 800009000 is in exception list, allowing to load
kext com.parallels.kext.hypervisor 800009000 is in exception list, allowing to load
rbms-Macbook-Pro-2:10.6 rmarotta$ sudo kextutil prl_vnic.kext/
Diagnostics for prl_vnic.kext:
Code Signing Failure: code signature is invalid
kext com.parallels.kext.vnic 800009000 is in exception list, allowing to load
kext com.parallels.kext.vnic 800009000 is in exception list, allowing to load
rbms-Macbook-Pro-2:10.6 rmarotta$ sudo kextutil prl_vnic.kext/
Diagnostics for prl_vnic.kext:
Code Signing Failure: code signature is invalid
kext com.parallels.kext.vnic 800009000 is in exception list, allowing to load
kext com.parallels.kext.vnic 800009000 is in exception list, allowing to load
rbms-Macbook-Pro-2:10.6 rmarotta$ sudo kextutil -d ./prl_hypervisor.kext prl_netbridge.kext/
Diagnostics for prl_netbridge.kext:
Code Signing Failure: code signature is invalid
kext com.parallels.kext.netbridge 800009000 is in exception list, allowing to load
kext com.parallels.kext.netbridge 800009000 is in exception list, allowing to load
rbms-Macbook-Pro-2:10.6 rmarotta$ sudo kextutil prl_usb_connect.kext
Diagnostics for prl_usb_connect.kext:
Code Signing Failure: code signature is invalid
kext com.parallels.kext.usbconnect 800009000 is in exception list, allowing to load
kext com.parallels.kext.usbconnect 800009000 is in exception list, allowing to load
rbms-Macbook-Pro-2:10.6 rmarotta$

Does anyone have another work-around?
Will upgrading to PDM9 resolve this?