{"id":110,"date":"2006-12-17T22:52:48","date_gmt":"2006-12-18T08:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/17\/qa-ubuntu-linux-parallels-desktop-for-mac\/"},"modified":"2006-12-17T22:53:45","modified_gmt":"2006-12-18T08:53:45","slug":"qa-ubuntu-linux-parallels-desktop-for-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/17\/qa-ubuntu-linux-parallels-desktop-for-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"Q&#038;A: Ubuntu Linux &#038; Parallels Desktop for Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.macdevcenter.com\/mac\/2006\/06\/27\/graphics\/parallels-figure02.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A friend had a question about installing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubuntu.com\/\">Ubuntu Linux<\/a> on a Mac running <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macdevcenter.com\/pub\/a\/mac\/2006\/06\/27\/parallels-desktop-for-mac.html\">Parallels Desktop for Mac<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0since reviewed it earlier this year. I thought it might be of general interest. So, I&#8217;m posting a response here. He asked&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>I picked up a MacBook Core 2 Duo with 120 GB\u00c2\u00a0Hard Drive\u00c2\u00a0and 2 GB of RAM. Its wonderful so far. I also downloaded the trial version of Parallel (Build 1970 dated 1 November 2006). I have with me the Ubuntu Edgy (6.10 ) Live CD that I used successfully to install on a standard PC &#8230; but am not at all having any luck booting fully from the live CD under Parallels so that I can install it in a virtual environment. I wonder if I should try the Beta version of Parallels instead?<\/em><em>You mentioned in your report a few weeks ago that you were not having any problems installing Ubuntu with your version of Parallels. Do you have any general suggestions?<\/p>\n<p><\/em>First, woo! Nice MacBook configuration.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m running the latest public Parallels Desktop for Mac beta and it seems pretty stable to me so far. Two suggestions regarding the issue you are seeing.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Trying downloading the current ISO and install it using the ISO file instead of a physical CD disc. There might be some small drive tolerance issue that allowed to install fine on the standard PC you used but not the MacBook.<\/li>\n<li>You might want to try Ubuntu 6.06 LTS instead 6.10. I seem to recall reading that some people were having problems with 6.10. I installed 6.06 LTS last summer when I was testing an earlier version of Parallels Desktop for Mac.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend had a question about installing Ubuntu Linux on a Mac running Parallels Desktop for Mac\u00c2\u00a0since reviewed it earlier this year. I thought it might be of general interest. So, I&#8217;m posting a response here. He asked&#8230; I picked up a MacBook Core 2 Duo with 120 GB\u00c2\u00a0Hard Drive\u00c2\u00a0and 2 GB of RAM. Its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa","category-virtualization"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppKRG-1M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}