I was recently experimenting with Parallels to run some Lion Server VMs and I must have wasted a couple of hours trying to get Lion Server up and running as a Profile Manager host in a VM. Then I had the good sense to complain to Arek Dreyer, who I’m guessing had complained to Andrina Kelly who had, well, answered the riddle. Apparently you need to enable a second core in order to promote to an Open Directory Master in Parallels. To enable said second CPU, open Parallels, go to the configure screen for the VM and then make sure CPUs is set to some number higher than 1. Who…
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Mass Deploy Parallels
Sometimes it’s just that easy. Our good friends at Parallels have developed a special Mass Deploy package, available on their site. When you control-click on it and select Browse Contents you will see a license.txt. You can paste your license into the license.txt file and then put your virtual machine into the root of the package. Once complete, you can push this package out at will. Additionally, you can edit the postflight shell script in the Resources directory, throwing your own commands at the tail end of the file, adding more virtual machines, customizing settings, etc. Good luck.
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DockSync for Parallels
With VMware you can use the vmrun command to launch commands in Windows from your Mac. However, there is no option to do this in Parallels and so VerySimple Dev blog has a Windows app called DockSync which works with a Parallels shared folder. DockSync monitors Parallels shared folders for files ending with .task extensions. The .task files contain Windows command line actions. You can script a command via Applescript or Terminal that will output a .task file to the shared folder. The .task file will be picked up by DockSync and executed at the Windows command line.
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Mac OS X: Serial Port Access within Parallels
Are you using Parallels? Need access to a com port through one of those handy little Keyspan’s? Check this out: http://eudyptes.com/SerialClient.php