Parallels 7 Not working after Upgrade to Mnt. Lion

[DirtyD1985]

Hello Everyone,

Yesterday night I upgraded to Mnt. Lion and like a noob I forgot to update Parallels 7 for my Late 2008 MBP first. Now parallels is saying "not compatipable" when I try to start it up. Does anyone know of a way to update Parallels to work on Mnt. Lion without reinstalling either programs?

 

[BornAgainMac]

It works. Just check for updates.

 

[Bobby.e]

As the person above me said. There is an update out for Parallels. You just need to download and install that.

 

[ramases]

You need to follow the instructions on the parallels support page below

http://kb.parallels.com/114449

you will need to re-install the Desktop app (305Mb download)

 

[DirtyD1985]

Does anyone have a link to the update / know how to perform it? I cannot even start up Parallels, and the company website does not seem to help, unless I am doing something wrong?

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Understood thank you for the assistance !

 

[jkeekij]

There is a link in post #4 and once that link is followed you will find instructions and the download.

 

[AFPoster]

This is the proper link: http://kb.parallels.com/en/114449

 

[crashdebris]

version 6 user

I am a user of version 6. It is NOT being supported in Mountain Lion. I bought ver 6 after the start of an 8 week semester and ver 7 came out before end of semester, I was a bit mad when I was not offered a free upgrade at the time. I chaulked it up to unfortunate timing and went on with life. I needed the software when I bought it and it has worked flawlessly on lion.

I then decided to upgrade my systems to mountain lion. I did my older iMac first, I can afford to be without it since it is not my main school machine (online school). Everything went well so i decided to upgrade my Macbook Pro, which IS my main school machine. After it completes I find out about parallels 6 not being supported. I have a class starting in a couple weeks that requires windows so I am stuck.

I REALLY don't want to give parallels $50 to upgrade when ver 6 worked perfectly well on both snow leopard and lion. There is NO reason that they should not support a less than year old product. My other choice is to buy VMWare ver 4. Their website says it can migrate my existing virtual machine from parallels, but I'm a bit leary of buying it, migration not working correctly and then still having to buy parallels ver 7! I HAVE to have a working VM before the semester starts so I will probably go the parallels upgrade route even though I am NOT happy about giving in to what I consider extortion!

Sorry to somewhat hijack this thread, but I didn't think a new thread for ver 6 was justified. Just needed to vent a bit.

tl;dr the above fix only works for Parallels Ver 7, Ver 6 users must upgrade or downgrade back to Lion.