Linux on a Mac, via Parallels VM - good tips

Parallels - how to get the cursor back

Capturing and Releasing the Keyboard and Mouse Input To start working in your virtual machine, you need first to capture the keyboard and mouse input in the virtual machine. To this effect: move the mouse pointer over the virtual machine window and click in the window. When the keyboard and mouse input is captured in the virtual machine, you cannot move the pointer out of the virtual machine window and all keystrokes and button clicks go to the virtual machine. To release the keyboard and mouse back to the primary OS, press Ctrl+Alt. The keyboard and mouse will be released immediately.

Parallels - remove VM

To remove a virtual machine please follow this steps: Launch Parallels Desktop, but do not start your virtual machine. Click on the Parallels icon at the OS X menu bar -> select Control Center. Right-click on your virtual machine and select Remove.

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[–]billclark 2 points 2 years ago 

I run Ubuntu, Kali Linux, and Arch in Parallels 8 on a 2013 MacBook Air (8GB RAM, 512GB SSD). I usually dedicate 2GB RAM and 2 virtual CPUs and all 3 of the VMs run just fine, provided I'm not running more than one at a time.
Just choose "Faster Virtual Machine" and "Adaptive Hypervisor" and you'll be fine on moderately spec'd hardware with enough memory.

[–]functioniesta 2 points 2 years ago 

Also don't forget to install parallel tools. I didn't know about this for a long time and was running very slow virtual machines and was wondering why its so slow...
Parallel tools is basically a bundle of drivers and stuff. Its easy to install on some Linux distros like Ubuntu but a little trickier on others.

 

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Installing Kali Linux 2.0 on Parallels Desktop 11

https://vimeo.com/139408247

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Kali Linux Hard Disk Install

http://docs.kali.org/installation/kali-linux-hard-disk-install