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OS/2 and eComStation Tools Installation

All of the OS/2 and eComStation tools can be installed from the vmtools.iso CD image. Network drivers can also be installed from the floppy disk image file vmtools.fdd during operating system installation. The latter is easier in most cases.

Before starting the installation you should connect the CD-ROM image with Parallels Tools to your virtual machine CD-ROM drive. Do the following:

Mouse Synchronization Tool Installation

The Mouse Synchronization Tool consists of the mouse driver and the video filter.

Note: To install the Mouse Synchronization Tool you should have a VESA video driver installed, such as SDD or GENGRADD. For instructions on how to do this refer to OS/2 documentation.

To install the mouse tool:

  1. Click the Drives icon on the system panel. Select the CD-ROM drive and Drivers\Mouse\OS2 directory on it.
  2. Launch the INSTALL.CMD batch file. The INSTALL.CMD copies files and makes necessary modifications to the CONFIG.SYS file.
  3. Restart the guest OS/2 operating system.

Note: The Mouse Synchronization Tool increases performance of the guest OS/2 operating system under Citrix.

Clipboard Synchronization Tool Installation

In OS/2 and eComStation you must launch the Clipboard Synchronization Tool manually. This tool is not a tool itself but an ordinary application, and should be treated as such. If you want the Clipboard Synchronization tool to start automatically when your guest operating system is started:

The Clipboard Synchronization Tool is located in the ClipBrd\OS2 directory on the CD-ROM containing Parallels Tools.

Sound Driver Installation

Note: Before installing the Sound Driver you should have multimedia support installed in OS/2 guest OS.

To install the Sound Driver:

  1. Click the System Setup icon on the system panel.
  2. Select Install/Remove line, and then select Multimedia Application Install.
  3. In the IBM Multimedia Presentation Manager/2 - Installation window choose CD-ROM drive, then Drivers\Sound\OS2 directory. Select the ALC Codec feature and click the Install button.
  4. Restart the OS/2 guest operating system.

Network Driver Installation

Below we consider the installation of the Realtek RTL8029 driver inside the OS/2 Warp version 4.0.

  1. Click the System Setup icon on the system panel.
  2. Click the MPTS Network Adapters and Protocol Services icon to open the Multi-Protocol Transport Services window.
  3. Click Configure.
  4. In the Configure window that opens, click Configure again to open the Adapter and Protocol Configuration window.
  5. Click the Other adapters button below the Network Adapters section of the window to open the Copy Additional Network Adapter Drivers window.
  6. Specify the path to the Parallels driver on CD-ROM disc image. The path should be:

    <CD-ROM drive>\Drivers\Network\RTL8029\NDIS2OS2

  7. Click OK. The Parallels network adapter driver will be copied. After this you can see the name RTL8029 PCI Ethernet Adapter included in the Network Adapters list. Select this name.
  8. Click Change in the Network Adapters section of the window to change the current network adapter into the selected one.
  9. Click OK when the message "Are you sure you want to change this network adapter?" is displayed. After you click OK, the RTL8029 PCI Ethernet Adapter appears in the appropriate field of the Current Configuration section of the window. Now if you click Edit in the Current Configuration section of the window, you will see that you do not need to configure any this driver properties, because it is self-configurable.
  10. Click OK when finished.
  11. Close both the Configure and Multi-Protocol Transport Services windows.
  12. Click Exit in the Update CONFIG.SYS window.
  13. Exit the configuration program and restart the guest OS.