Installing Kali in Parallels Desktop 7

If like me you have tried installing the Kali operating system (http://www.kali.org/) on your Mac using Parallels Desktop 7, then you may have had some issues during the initial boot up after the installation has completed like the “Bug: soft lockup” issue shown below.

Mac虚拟机Parallels Desktop安装Kali时会报如下的错误：

The solution to this is to disable the “Show Battery in Linux” setting under the virtual machines configuration settings.

Configure… > Options > Optimization > Setting highlighted red in screenshot below

解决方案：

HTH, enjoy playing with Kali on Parallels!

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