No internet in Virtual Machine after upgrading to Parallel Desktop 9

I recently upgraded to PD 9 . Everything was working fine but I was unable to go online. After trying
for sometime this is how I was able to fix it. Let me know if this works for you.

Open your Virtual Machine's Configuration

• in window mode: go to Virtual Machines menu -> Configure
  
  

1. Switch to Hardware tab -> Network 1
2. If your Virtual Machine is configured to use Bridged:Default Adapter connection:
   
   • switch Type to Bridged: WiFi
   • In DHCP Server drop-down list choose Auto.
     
     In DHCP Server drop-down list choose Auto.
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
   
   

Netflix.com Player Error - Black Screen without Player Controls on Mac OS X

Netflix.com Player Error - Black Screen without Player Controls

If you encounter a black screen without player controls when trying to stream a video from Netflix on your Mac, it’s possible your browser’s security settings are interfering with the Silverlight plugin, or the Silverlight plugin has become corrupted.

Troubleshoot your browser:

1. Clear browser cookies
   Your browser may be referencing an out-dated or corrupted setting in the cookie file.
   1. Go to netflix.com/clearcookies to clear the Netflix cookie. This will sign you out of Netflix.com.
   2. Select Netflix Home, then Member Sign In to log back in and play your movie or TV show again.
2. Restart your browser
   Sometimes restarting your browser can clear this issue.
   • Quit your browser, restart it, and play your movie or TV show again.
3. Try another browser
   A browser extension, plug-in or add-on may be causing this error. Try playing your movie or TV show in another browser.
   • If you're unable to play your movie or TV show in multiple browsers, there may be a problem with the Silverlight Plug-in used by Netflix.com. 

Uninstall and Re-install Silverlight Plugin

You may be running an outdated version of the Silverlight plug-in, or the plug-in may have become corrupted.

To uninstall the Silverlight plug-in: 

1. Quit all open browsers - including this window! You may want to print the following steps.
2. Click the Finder icon from the Dock at the bottom of the screen.
3. In the menu bar at the top of the screen, select Go then Computer.
4. Click the Macintosh HD icon.
5. Select Library.
6. Select Internet Plugins.
7. Drag Silverlight.plugin to your trash.
8. Once you have emptied your trash, Microsoft Silverlight un-installation is complete.

To install the latest version of the Silverlight plug-in:

1. Navigate to the Watch Instantly home page and click play on any title.
2. Follow the prompts to download and Install Silverlight on Your Mac.

You may encounter the message "Silverlight.dmg cannot be opened because it is from an unidentified developer" when attempting to install Silverlight. This is fairly common for applications that are not downloaded from the Mac App store. If you encounter this message, continue with the following steps to complete your Silverlight installation.

1. Right-click or hold Control on your keyboard and click on Silverlight.pkg.
2. Click Open on the pop-up menu.
3. Click Open on the prompt that says "Silverlight.pkg" is not from the Mac App Store. Are you sure you want to open it? Opening "Silverlight.pkg" will always allow it to run on this Mac.
4. Follow the prompts to complete installation.

   Disable Ad Blocker from Firefox

   From the black screen:

   1. Click on Firefox in the top left corner of the browser window.
   2. Hover the cursor over Options.
   3. Make sure there is a blue check mark next to Ad-On Bar.
   4. A bar should appear along the bottom of the browser window. In the bottom left corner of the bar, click the red stop sign.
   5. Click Disable on movies.netflix.com.
   6. Press the back arrow to return to the Instantly Watch home page. Try playing your movie or TV show again.

Disk Utility

Disk Utility was updated with Mac OS X v10.3. Prior to v10.3, the functionality of Disk Utility was spread across two applications:• Disk Copy•Disk Utility.
•Disk Copy was used for creating and mounting disk image files.
•Disk Utility was used for formatting, partitioning, verifying and repairing file structures. The ability to "zero" all data on a disk was not added until Mac OS X 10.2.3.•Further changes introduced in 10.4.3 allowed Disk Utility to be used to verify the file structure of the current boot drive.Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard added the ability to create, resize, and delete disk partitions without erasing them, a feature known as live partitioning.In versions of the Mac OS prior to Mac OS X, similar functionality to the verification features of Disk Utility could be found in the Disk First Aid application. Another application called Drive Setup was used for drive formatting and partitioning, and the application Disk Copy was used for working with disk images

Tasks of Disk Utility

1.Creation, conversion, compression and encryption of disk images from a wide range of formats read by Disk Utility.

               •From .dmg (Macintosh OS X Disk Copy Disk Image File )  to .iso format.

               •From CD/DVD images (.cdr ) to .iso format.

        2. Mounting, unmounting, and ejecting disks (including both hard disks, removable media and    disk images).

        3. Verifying a disk's integrity, and repairing it if the disk is damaged (this will work for both Mac compatible format partitions, and FAT-32 partitions with Microsoft Windows installed). 

        4. Verifying and repairing permissions of file and Hard disk.

         

          Other Tasks of Disk Utility are:

O                               • Disk erasing, formatting, partitioning and cloning.

     • Secure deletion of free space or disk using a "zero out" data Adding or changing partition table between Apple Partition Table, GUID Partition Table, and master boot record (MBR):

         • creating, destroying, merging, and repairing RAID sets.

         • restoring volumes from Apple Software Restore (ASR) images.

         • burning disk images to CD or DVD in HFS+ format.

         • erasing CD-RWs and DVD-RWs

         • Disk Utility functions may also be accessed from the Mac OS X command line      with the diskutil and hdiutil commands.

Conversion of file from .dmg format to .iso

•Open Disk Utility (located in Applications>Utilities folder)

•Drag your disk image into the left-hand pane (where all your drives are listed) of Disk Utility. 

•Click on the file you just dragged into Disk Utility (should appear in the left-hand column).

Click on the 'Images' menu, then choose 'Convert...' 

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•When the 'Convert Image' dialog pops up, select 'DVD/CD Master' from the 'Image Format' pop-up menu. Name your file, with '.cdr' at the end of the filename, then click 'Save.'

•Disk Utility will convert the file to an ISO image. After this finishes, replace the 'cdr' at the end of the filename (in the Finder) to 'iso'.

Repairing Mac Partition

•Click on Hard disk that is on the left column and click on Repair Disk