Installing Parallels Tools on Debian 7

This entry is about remembering how I solved this issue (as well as boost some traffix for the blogger that solved it)

Parallels Tools is a package designed to make various host/guest tools work: Clipboard, shared folders etc.

For some reason though, the Parallels' way of installing it fails. And it turns out to be a mount + security problem.

First off, the iso wouldn't mount when choosing the "Virtual Machine -> Install Parallels Tools". So I had to manually find it using the "Devices -> Cd/Dvd -> Connect Image..." and browsing to "/Applications/Parallels\ Desktop.app/Contents/Resources/Tools/prl-tools-lin.iso"

But, it still wouldn't work. So, after some googling I followed this guide: Install Parallels Tools on a Debian Virtual Machine

In short these commands (on the guest) solved the issue once I got the iso mounted:

Eclipse + SSH

I work a lot across multiple systems of various OS'es and configurations, and usually I do it via ssh. However, almost everytime, the tasks get much slower than they ought to be, due to the fact that the remote system doesn't have your local tools and configs.

Since I mostly use Eclipse on my local system, and since it's plugin based, I thought of searching for such plugins, and imagine my surprise that it actually exists!

It's built in, and it's called Remote System Explorer.