Ubuntu on Parallels
If you are also one of the poor fellows trying to get Ubuntu installed in Parallels I hope this entry can save you some time. Me in particular tried to get the server version installed as I wanted to start with a minimal virtual machine.
So what I did is to download the Ubuntu server iso. Well, to save you some time and traffic - don’t! You can install successfully but after the next reboot all you get is a screen of “Unknown interrupt or fault at EIP 00000060 c0100295 00000294″. So what’s next? Google said: “Download the alternate image. That one should do it!” Great! If it only would work as advertised. There is no such thing as a server install on the stupid CD. (Dear, Ubuntu community - WTF?!) So the only way I could get Ubuntu installed was to use the expert install and skip(!) the software selection/installation part. That will leave you with the base install which is booting just fine. (I used the 2.7.10 generic kernel). After you’ve adjusted your “/etc/apt/sources.list” you should be ready to rock and you can install just what you need.
Have you tried VMWare’s Fusion? It seems to “feel” better for me, even though it may be worse ;).
Use VMware, Parallels doesn’t support Linux, as you would think they would since they say they do. There is a server cd, it’s separate.
Actually I think this was more an Ubuntu issueI only wished I could have just used the Ubuntu server CD.