I cannot install Parallels Tools into Linux Guest OS

Article ID: 5221 
Last Review: Oct,6 2008
Author: Vitaly Malakhov
Last updated by: system APPLIES TO:
  • Parallels Desktop for Mac 3.x

Symptoms

Parallels Tools cannot be installed into several distributives of Linux Guest OSes like Debian 4.0 RC, SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) SP1.  When parallel-tools.run is executed, the error like the following one appears:

Xorg version 6.9.0
./prl-tools-installer.sh: line 83: 3308 Floating point exception prluserd.

X.org version and error code may vary.

Cause

Dynamic ELF section has an opcode in it that is not recognized by ld-linux.so and it crashes.

Resolution

This is operating system compilation bug and should be corrected by OS vendor. At the moment you can only use Guest without Parallels Tools installed of use another Linux distributive.


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