parallels 8 and mavericks compatibilti
Has anyone tried Parallels 8 with Mavericks OSX for compatibility?
I only had 4, 5, 6, & 7, they would not run in 10.9, Paralles 9 does.
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Want to but can't afford to not have PD8 work with Mavericks (work laptop)
Anyone running PD8 should REALLY update to PD9.
Generally better performance and compatibility and less
issues with OSX 10.8 or 10.9.
I have P8 and no issues with ML. I would like to use P8 with Mavericks. I hate everytime Apple makes a revision Parallels wants you to buy their latest software. They should support their past systems at least for several years. I'm sure it is all a marketing scheme to sell more software.
Apple is not responsible for what 3rd party app vendors do or don't do.
It is up to the vendors to provide support for their products and insure
compatibility with any system update. This is true be it Apple or Microsoft.
Parallels has done this by providing PD9. If you chose not to update,
that is fine.
Personally, I found the advantages of updating to PD9 far outweighed
any decision not to.
My issue is not with Apple but with Parallels. Most software suppliers update their present programs for compatibility as the operating systems are updated at no cost for at least some time period. Parallels seems to always bring out all new software and then charges the customer again. I agree that P9 is the ultimate answer but just wish they could be more customer focused. I bet next year if Apple has another new OS P9 will not work and you will have to buy P10.
Just released on the Parallels site that P8 does support Mavericks so I guess I saved the cost of another upgrade. It did state that either P8 or P9 is required. An earlier version would not work.
Ya since there weren't any answers come out of this discussion (other than upgrade to PD9 - brilliant, hadn't thought of that) I bit the bullet and ran it with Mavericks and it works fine.
I just finished installing Mavericks and P8 works great with my Win7 and WinXP.
I am running Parallels 8 with Mavericks and Win 7 and it is not working well at all. It didn't work great with Mountain Lion, but now it's totally unusable.
Parallels 8 on Mavericks works!
Here is the solution, that work for me.
If you have below alert:
The virtual machine performance may be degraded because the hardware virtualization support is disabled on the host computer.
"Unable to load the Parallels DriverIf you don't yet want to upgrade, you can use a workaround below:
- 1) Launch AppleScript Editor (it's in Utilities folder)
- 2) Create a new file (File > New)
- 3) Copy and paste this into the editor:
do shell script "
for x in prl_hypervisor prl_vnic prl_hid_hook \"-d ./prl_hypervisor.kext prl_netbridge\" prl_usb_connect
do sudo kextutil \"/Applications/Parallels Desktop.app/Contents/Library/Extensions/10.6/$x.kext\"
done
" with administrator privileges
do shell script "open -a \"/Applications/Parallels Desktop.app\""
4) Select File > Save, call it Parallels Desktop Launcher, put it in the Applications folder and set type to Application:
The new launcher will appear in your Applications folder and you will be able to use it to start Parallels.
You will need to enter your password once before the start because the script needs administrative privileges.
Done.
To everyone that desires to not move to PD9, I can personally say that mikich's process works. Thank you!
You welcome, I'm happy that's helped you
parallels 8 and mavericks compatibilti