Is there any plans to support Ubuntu as a guest OS. I tried it and have two problems that Windows (as a guest) does not have: 1) I cannot use the network at all when using airport on my host machine. Both "ifconfig" and "netstat -rn" give reasonable values but a ping just returns "Destination Host Unreachable". It seems to work with wired ethernet on the host. 2) The vertical-bar and back-slash keys generate the "<" and ">" characters. I've tried various keyboard settings with no success. The shifted period and comma generate the "<" and ">" too.
Ubuntu is known to work fine in Parallels virtual environment. I'm sure that these problems are just bugs of beta version.
Bridged networking is specific to the host interface you're connecting to. When using Airport, switch to en1, not en0, as the bridged device. Even after doing this I'm finding I can't SSH into a Parallels guest. Parallels would be strongly encouraged to make use of a virtual switch/bridge device. I've used this with UML under Linux with great success. Essentially: 1. Configure the bridge as your primary network interface. 2. Add additional interfaces (both the host's own interfaces and, under Linux, tun/tap devices) to the bridge. Viola! Instant transparent networking. Note that I'm less familiar with OSX's own tun/tap equivalents. Installing console-tools should allow you to remap your keys, if you can determine the proper keysims and/or scancodes to map. I have to say, losing my pipe really harshes my mellow. If Parallels could identify and post a corrected kmap file it would be vastly appreciated.
The Beta 6 talks about this under 'known issues' - one reason to read the readme before installation.
(Reply to self...) Beta 6 fixes both these problems. Upgrade if you haven't already. You should find that this is Parallels Workstation 2.1 Beta6 for Mac OS X, Build 1812.7 (April 29, 2006).
