Fix: Parallels iPhone Service won’t start
Here’s a quick tip to fix for those of you Mac users who are using Parallels 5 as the virtualization solution.
Support came back to me with the following steps to fix the problem. First, quit Parallels if it’s already running. Then go through the steps noted below.
- Go to /Library/Parallels/
- Right-click on “Parallels Service.app” -> Show Package Contents
- Go to /Contents/PlugIns/
- Right-click on “Parallels Network Start.app” -> Show Package Contents
- Go to /Contents/MacOS/
- Copy “prl_iphone_proxy” file.
- Go to /Library/Parallels/
- Right-click on “Parallels Service.app” -> Show Package Contents
- Go to /Contents/PlugIns/
- Right-click on “Parallels iPhone Proxy.app” -> Show Package Contents
- Go to /Contents/MacOS/
- Paste “prl_iphone_proxy” file.
- Restart Parallels and enable the iPhone service!
Yup. That’s all it takes to get it running. I’d expect a patch/update to fix this problem once and for all… A missing file in the iPhone Proxy app isn’t quite a major technical issue isn’t it? I wondered how this got through QA for this release of Parallels 5.