Stuck on "Installing Parallels Tools"

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I'm on a Mac Monterey 12.4 with Vagrant (Homestead for Laravel projects), Parallels Desktop 17.1.4. Upon booting up the VM I got this message that the Parallels Tools is outdated - screenshot so I opened the Parallels Desktop UI and clicked on the orange "!" which said "Update Parallels Tools", which is taking forever (2 days). I checked the parallels-tools-install.log and I saw this:


```
Sat Jul 9 12:40:13 CDT 2022
Start installation or upgrade of Guest Tools
installer:%10.000000
installer:%20.000000
Found Guest Tools directory: /usr/lib/parallels-tools
```

I've reinstalled vagrant, parallels desktop, the VM box, basically everything and tried again. Unfortunately - same result. So I'd be happy if someone knows how to fix this.
 
Found the solution by following this (in case someone else finds themselves in this situation):


How to install Parallels Tools in a Linux virtual machine
  1. Start the Linux and open the Terminal window.
  2. Get the administrator's / root privileges:
sudo su or su

  1. Make sure the DVD drive in the Linux VM is ejected:
eject /dev/cdrom

  1. Go to the Parallels Desktop menu bar > Devices > CD/DVD > Connect image...
Navigate to /Applications/Parallels Desktop/Contents/Resources/Tools.

Click on prl-tools-lin.iso and click Open.

  1. Mount the Parallels Tools image to the Linux VM:
mkdir /media/cdrom

mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom

  1. Make sure the disk image has been successfully mounted:
ls /media/cdrom

It should list the files located on the disk:

install* installer/ install-gui* kmods/ tools/ version

  1. Go to the Parallels Tools image and run the installation package:
cd /media/cdrom

./install

 
Make sure that you are selecting prl-tools-lin-arm.iso if you are on an M1. For some strange reason by default it tries to mount the non arm version and it fails
 
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