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10 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Share applications between your Mac OS X and Windows guest OS. Right-click any file and choose the desired

100 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Overview When you start the virtual machine, Parallels Desktop window transforms into the guest OS window

Running Virtual Machine 101 Selecting from the Select virtual machine dialog Whenever you start Parallels Desktop, it opens with the Select virtua

102 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Using Aliases for Virtual Machines You can create an alias for a particular virtual machine on the desktop

Running Virtual Machine 103 Opening a Virtual Machine When Another VM Is Running When a virtual machine is running, you can not open another insta

104 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Stopping and Resetting a Virtual Machine The same rules are applied to turning off a virtual machine as to

Running Virtual Machine 105 Suspending and Resuming a Virtual Machine The state of the running virtual machine, and states of all running inside t

106 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Pausing a Virtual Machine When a virtual machine is paused, the guest OS is stopped and the virtual machin

Running Virtual Machine 107 Switching to Full Screen You can run a guest operating system in full screen when the guest OS window occupies the who

108 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Switching to Coherence Coherence is a new mode in which you can run the virtual machine. For a complete de

Running Virtual Machine 109 Running Windows Guest OS There is a number of special features for the virtual machines with Microsoft Windows 2000/XP

Introduction 11 Printers that connected to your Macintosh computer now can be available for the virtual machine. Such printers can be connected via

110 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Create the icons in the Dock or aliases on Mac desktop for all your favorite Windows applications. Clickin

Running Virtual Machine 111 2 Click the User Accounts icon. 3 Click the Turn User Security Control (UAC) on or off link. 4 Clear the check box

112 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide To run 3D applications successfully, do not restore the original versions of these files. Click Cancel in

Running Virtual Machine 113 Adding New Icon Set for Toolbar Buttons In addition to available several sets of icons for toolbar buttons you can cre

114 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Coherence View Options To open Coherence options, choose Customize from the View menu. Options on the Coh

C HAPTER 7 Parallels Tools for Windows Parallels Desktop allows you to control the status of Parallels Tools in the Windows guest OSes. The Parallels

116 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Stopping and Restarting Parallels Tools Center You can stop Parallels Tools Center temporarily if needed

Running Virtual Machine 117 Status:  Enabled shows the current status of the Clipboard Synchronization Tool. To temporarily disable this tool, c

118 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Status:  Enabled check box shows the current status of the Time Synchronization Tool. To temporarily dis

Running Virtual Machine 119 Video Driver Options Status:  Enabled check box shows the tool's current status but is not available for editi

12 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Getting Help Parallels Desktop offers several options for accessing necessary information:  Parallels De

120 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Mouse Synchronization Tool Options Status:  Enabled check box shows the tool's current status. Cle

Running Virtual Machine 121 Network Driver Options Status: Enabled check box shows the current status of the Parallels Network Adapter Driver. Wh

122 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Disk Compacting Tool Options Status:  The table displays the list of volumes located on the expanding v

Running Virtual Machine 123 Shared Folders Options Status:  Enabled check box shows the tool's current status but is not available for edi

124 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Favorite Applications Tool Favorite Application Tool provides possibility to start favorite Windows appli

Running Virtual Machine 125 Coherence Tool Available only for Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista guest operating systems, Coherence Tool provides the in

C HAPTER 8 Parallels Tools for Linux To ensure a better integration between your primary and guest OS, Parallels Desktop provides a set of tools for

Running Virtual Machine 127 To configure Time Synchronization Tool, you must edit the prluserd script. Be default, the script is located at /usr/l

128 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Connecting a CD/DVD-ROM Drive If you start a guest operating system with the CD/DVD-ROM drive enabled, you

Running Virtual Machine 129 Connecting a Floppy Drive If you start a guest operating system with the floppy drive enabled, you may connect/disconn

C HAPTER 2 Parallels Desktop Virtual Machine This chapter provides a brief description of Parallels virtual machines, their specifications and underl

130 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Connecting a Serial Port If a serial port is enabled in your virtual machine configuration, you can connec

Running Virtual Machine 131 Connecting a Sound Device If a sound device is enabled in your virtual machine configuration, you can connect or disco

132 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Connecting USB Devices If the USB controller is enabled in the virtual machine configuration, you can conn

Running Virtual Machine 133 The device will be disconnected from the virtual machine, and the mark against the device will disappear while the dev

134 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Ejecting CD/DVD In any guest OS press the Eject key on the keyboard (the triangle with the line underneath

Running Virtual Machine 135 Sharing a Mac Printer You can set up any printer connected to you Macintosh computer for use in the virtual machine. P

136 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Setting Up a USB Printer To setup a USB printer: 1 Open the virtual machine configuration in the Configur

Running Virtual Machine 137 Setting Up a Network Printer Before installing a network printer in a guest OS make sure that your primary OS and the

138 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide In a Windows Guest Operating System To add a network printer in a Windows guest OS:  Start the Windows

C HAPTER 9 Working in Coherence Mode This chapter covers different aspects of working in Coherence mode. The chapter also provides overview of Coher

14 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Intel Virtualization Technology (VT-x) Support Intel Virtualization Technology (VT-x) implemented in the ar

140 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Overview When you switch the running virtual machine with one or more running applications into Coherence

Working in Coherence Mode 141 The current version of Parallels Desktop provides close integration between guest OS applications and Mac OS X: 

142 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide You can also create the application alias on the Mac OS X desktop by choosing Add to Favorites from the ap

Working in Coherence Mode 143 For troubleshooting when using Application Switcher see Keyboard Shortcuts in Virtual Machine (page 232). Sharing

144 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Coherence Mode Options This topic contains overview of Coherence mode options. Startup Options You can con

Working in Coherence Mode 145 Transparent file associations in both systems let you open Windows files by Mac OS X applications and Mac OS X file

C HAPTER 10 Working with Snapshots and Undo Disks Parallels Desktop enables you to back up information on your virtual machines and revert changes ma

Working with Snapshots and Undo Disks 147 Overview of Snapshots Snapshot is a state of the virtual machine saved at a certain moment. Snapshots ca

148 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Snapshot Manager Snapshot Manager enables you to create new snapshots, view already created snapshots, sel

Working with Snapshots and Undo Disks 149 Snapshots Tree Pane You can see the snapshots tree for the virtual machine in the upper pane of the Snap

Parallels Desktop Virtual Machine 15 Supported Guest Operating Systems The current version of Parallels Desktop officially supports the following

150 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Making a Snapshot You can create a snapshot when the virtual machine is running, paused or stopped. Making

Working with Snapshots and Undo Disks 151 Navigating Between Snapshots Parallels Desktop enables you to back up your virtual machine state by maki

152 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Reverting to the Previous Snapshot You can revert your virtual machine from its present state to the prev

Working with Snapshots and Undo Disks 153 Note. You cannot delete the root icon, but it gets automatically deleted after you delete all the other

154 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Each time you close the virtual machine, depending on the action selected, the changes will be committed

C HAPTER 11 Configuring Virtual Machine The section explains how to In This Chapter Using Mouse in a Virtual Machine...

156 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide If Mouse Does Not Have Right Button If your mouse does not have a right button, do one of the following: 

Configuring Virtual Machine 157 Shared Networking (NAT) By default, virtual machines created during Express or Typical OS installation use Shared

158 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Note. If your Macintosh computer uses AirPort with WEP Enterprise, it may be impossible for the virtual ma

Configuring Virtual Machine 159 Editing Virtual Machine Configuration The configuration of an existing virtual machine can be changed in Configura

16 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide OS/2® and eComStation™ Guest Operating Systems:  OS/2 Warp 4.5, 4  eComStation 1.2, 1.1 Sun Solaris® Gu

160 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide General Options The Options section of Configuration Editor includes the following three tabs: General, Bo

Configuring Virtual Machine 161 Booting Options On the Booting Options tab of Configuration Editor you can select the booting sequence, that is, t

162 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide You can choose one of the three pre-defined sequences - [Floppy, Hard Disk, CD-ROM], [Hard Disk, CD-ROM, F

Configuring Virtual Machine 163 Advanced Options On the Booting Options tab of Configuration Editor you can select the booting sequence that is th

164 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Advanced Options tab contains various options that affect the performance of the virtual machine. Emulatio

Configuring Virtual Machine 165 Security Options This tab describes the overall level of security set for the virtual machine. Using the slider yo

166 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Coherence Options The Coherence Options tab of Configuration Editor allows you to configure the Coherence

Configuring Virtual Machine 167 Appearance:  Group all Coherence windows. Select this option if you want to bring to front the whole group of op

168 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Shared Folders Options Shared Folders options control virtual machine shared folders and files sharing set

Configuring Virtual Machine 169  The Enable Spotlight processing option lets you use Mac OS Spotlight to search for items stored on your virtual

Parallels Desktop Virtual Machine 17 Virtual Machine Files By default, the files of a virtual machine created with OS Installation Assistant, are

170 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Windows applications  Select Share Windows application to Mac if you want to use Windows applications f

Configuring Virtual Machine 171 Shared Profile Status  Select Enable to activate the Shared Profile options and use this tool. Use Mac User Prof

172 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Video Options The Video Options tab of Configuration Editor lets you set different fixed screen resolution

Configuring Virtual Machine 173  Enable DirectX Shaders (experimental). If you want to run games or applications that require accelerated 3D gra

174 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Main Memory. The Main Memory parameter defines the amount of virtual memory (RAM) to be used by the virtu

Configuring Virtual Machine 175 Floppy Options The Floppy Options tab of Configuration Editor lets you enable the floppy drive in the virtual mach

176 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide  Connect at startup option. Select it to start the guest OS with the floppy image connected. Emulation 

Configuring Virtual Machine 177 Hard Disk Options The Hard Disk Options tab of Configuration Editor lets you specify the type of hard disk to be u

178 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide  Use Boot Camp. This option is enabled for virtual machines with Windows XP or Windows Vista guest OSes

Configuring Virtual Machine 179 2 Recreate Hard Disk dialog appears. You can specify Virtual hard disk size and whether the disk should be expand

18 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide .fdd This is a floppy disk image file. .fdd image files are treated by the virtual machine as real floppy d

180 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide CD/DVD-ROM Options The CD/DVD-ROM options tab of Configuration Editor lets you configure a virtual machine

Configuring Virtual Machine 181  If the CD/DVD-ROM drive is enabled, you can select the Connect at startup check box to start the guest OS with

182 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Network Adapter Options The Network Adapter Options tab of Configuration Editor lets you choose the type o

Configuring Virtual Machine 183 Device Status:  If you wish to temporarily disable network support in the virtual machine without deleting the

184 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide  Select Host-only networking if you don't want your virtual machine to be accessible from outside y

Configuring Virtual Machine 185 Parallel Port Options The Parallel Port Options tab of Configuration Editor lets you choose the type of emulation

186 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Serial Port Options The Serial Port Options tab of Configuration Editor lets you choose the type of emulat

Configuring Virtual Machine 187  Use output file option. You can attach the existing file using the Browse button or create a new one. The new f

188 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide  To start the guest OS with the sound device activated, select the Activate at startup check box. Emulat

Configuring Virtual Machine 189 Device Status:  Enabled option allows using USB devices in the virtual machine. If a USB controller is enabled,

Parallels Desktop Virtual Machine 19 Supported Types of Hard Disks The current version of Parallels Desktop allows virtual machines to use virtual

190 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Add Hardware Assistant New devices are added using Add Hardware Assistant. The assistant allows adding of

Configuring Virtual Machine 191 Adding Hard Disk To add one more virtual disk to your virtual machine, use Add Hardware Assistant. You may add an

192 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide 3 If you selected the Create a new virtual hard disk option, in the next dialog select the size for a new

Configuring Virtual Machine 193 4 If you selected the Use an existing virtual hard disk option, specify the name and location of an existing imag

194 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Adding CD/DVD-ROM Drive The total number of hard disk drives and CD/DVD-ROM drives must not exceed 4. To

Configuring Virtual Machine 195 2 Choose whether you want to use a real CD/DVDs or images of discs. 3 If you chose to use a real CD/DVD-ROM dri

196 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide 4 If you chose to use a CD/DVD image, select an image to be connected to the drive. Later, you can discon

Configuring Virtual Machine 197 Adding Network Adapter A virtual machine can have up to 5 network adapters simultaneously; Macintosh computers all

198 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide 2 The current version of Parallels Desktop offers the following three options: Shared Networking (recomme

Configuring Virtual Machine 199 4 No matter what networking option was chosen, Add Hardware Assistant displays the generated MAC address. The fie

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20 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Boot Camp Option With Parallels Desktop you can choose how to use your Boot Camp Windows XP/SP2 or Windows

200 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Adding Serial Port To add a serial port to the virtual machine, use Add Hardware Assistant. 1 On the devi

Configuring Virtual Machine 201 3 If the Use an output file option was chosen, the assistant prompts you to specify a location for the file. The

202 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Click Finish to exit the assistant. Adding Parallel Port To add a parallel port to the virtual machine, u

Configuring Virtual Machine 203 If you choose the Use a printer option proceed to the next step. 3 Choose a printer from the list of printers av

204 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide 4 If you selected the Use output file option, specify a location for the parallel port output file. The d

Configuring Virtual Machine 205 Adding a USB Controller A virtual machine may have only one USB controller. If you removed it by any reason, you c

206 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide 2 Select Yes if you want USB devices to be connected to the virtual machine automatically when they are p

Configuring Virtual Machine 207 Using Shared Folders Shared folders are folders in Mac OS X file system that are also visible to the guest OS. The

208 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide  Make sure the Enabled check box is selected and click OK. 5 Click OK in the Configuration Editor. 6

Configuring Virtual Machine 209 Note that you can save files to a shared folder from inside the virtual machine only if this shared folder is not

Parallels Desktop Virtual Machine 21 Floppy Disk Images Although most new Macintosh computers do not have floppy disk drives, Parallels Desktop v

210 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide 7 To keep the favorite application icon in the Dock permanently, right-click the application icon in the

Configuring Virtual Machine 211 The files with the extensions, for which you set the associations will be opened with the application you specifie

212 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide When finished, click OK to save the changes. 4 Start the virtual machine. Parallels Desktop prompts you t

Configuring Virtual Machine 213 In Windows Guest OSes For Windows guest operating systems (starting from Windows 2000 and later), Parallels Tools

214 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Changing Screen Resolution in Virtual Machine To change screen resolution:  Start your virtual machine.

Configuring Virtual Machine 215 EndSection 3 In xorg.conf, locate the Screen section, the Display subsection, and string that begins with the &

C HAPTER 12 Managing Virtual Machines This chapter provides the information on how to change a virtual machine configuration and how to set user pref

Managing Virtual Machines 217 General Tab Using settings on the General tab, you can do the following:  change the default folder for the virtua

218 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Changing the default folder for virtual machines the field shows the default location where Parallels Des

Managing Virtual Machines 219 Memory Tab On the Memory tab, you can adjust the maximum amount of physical memory (RAM) the system reserves for all

C HAPTER 3 Installing Parallels Desktop This chapter describes the system requirements and provides the information on how to install Parallels Deskt

220 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide  Manually. Select Manually to set the amount of memory reserved for virtual machine by using the slider

Managing Virtual Machines 221 2 To use Parallels DHCP server for host-only networking, select Enable DHCP Scope for host-only Networking. This al

222 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide  Port. The virtual machine's port the data will be transferred to. 3 When you are finished, click

Managing Virtual Machines 223 Dock Icon. This option defines what type of icon will be placed in the Dock for Parallels Desktop application. The f

224 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Animation Tab On the Animation tab, you can select between various types of animation to be performed, whe

Managing Virtual Machines 225 Animation Speed. You can speed up or slow down the animation using the slider. All animations set on the Animation

226 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Release Input Using this key combination, you can release the keyboard and mouse input when it is capture

Managing Virtual Machines 227 See also Keyboard Shortcuts in a Virtual Machine (on page 232) for more information on right-click emulation. Remap

228 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Creating Floppy Disk Images You may need to create a floppy disk image for the successful installation of

Managing Virtual Machines 229 Click Save. 5 Find the .dmg image of the diskette. Right-click (Control-click) it and select Get Info from the sho

Installing Parallels Desktop 23 Hardware Requirements In order to install and successfully run Parallels Desktop you should have:  An Intel-powe

230 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide 3 If the virtual machine has multiple volumes, then double-click the volume to explore. Browsing the cont

Managing Virtual Machines 231 Using Spotlight with Virtual Hard Disks Spotlight is a Mac OS utility that enables you to search for the items store

232 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Keyboard Shortcuts in a Virtual Machine Parallels Desktop enables you to use Mac keyboard shortcuts in you

Managing Virtual Machines 233 On the Keyboard tab you also can set the speed for the repeating key to responde.

234 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Using Standard Mac OS Keyboard Shortcuts in a Virtual Machine Macintosh keyboards have a number of system

Managing Virtual Machines 235 2 In the Universal Access window select Enable access for assistive devices. Multi-User Access to a Virtual Machi

236 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide  floppy disk image file (.fdd), if any  serial and parallel port output files (.txt), if any 2 Right-

Managing Virtual Machines 237 Cloning a Virtual Machine A complete copy of a virtual machine can be created using the Clone Virtual Machine Assist

238 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide 2 From the File menu, select Clone. The Clone Virtual Machine Assistant window appears. If you don't

Managing Virtual Machines 239 Click Finish to start cloning the machine. 4 While the virtual machine is being copied, the Copying in progress di

24 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Installing Parallels Desktop If you purchased a boxed copy of Parallels Desktop, insert the Parallels Deskt

240 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide If you have selected the Open copy in new window automatically option in the Prepare to clone window, a ne

Managing Virtual Machines 241 2 Select Delete in the File menu. The Delete Virtual Machine Assistant window appears. If you do not want this win

242 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Note. Make sure you are not going to delete the virtual hard disk that is also used by other virtual machi

Managing Virtual Machines 243 Backing Up Virtual Machines Most people don't seriously consider regular backups as a necessity until they have

244 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Compacting Virtual Disks Compacting can be performed only for expanding disks no matter whether they are s

Managing Virtual Machines 245 One-Stage Disk Compacting The one-stage disk compacting is used as a second stage of disk compacting procedure for

C HAPTER 13 Using Parallels Compressor Parallels Compressor® is a new, easy-to-use Parallels tool which will help you keep your virtual machines effi

Using Parallels Compressor 247 How Parallels Compressor Process a Virtual Machine Compressor processes a virtual machine in the following way:  De

248 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Requirements for the Guest Operating System Parallels Compressor supports the following guest operating sy

Using Parallels Compressor 249 2 Log in to the guest operating system as a user with administrator rights. Note. To run Parallels Compressor in a v

Installing Parallels Desktop 25 1 In the Introduction window, click Continue. 2 In the Important Information window, read the product Release N

250 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide To run Parallels Compressor:  in automatic mode, don't do anything, just wait until the timeout ex

Using Parallels Compressor 251 Running Modes Parallel Compressor has two running modes:  Automatic. Default running mode. In automatic mode, Compr

252 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Selecting Logical Disks for Compression A virtual machine may have several virtual disks, some of them can

Using Parallels Compressor 253 Compression Levels Parallels Compressor supports three levels of compression: Low, Medium, High. Each level suggests

254 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Advanced compression allows users to select any set of tasks. Compression in Automatic Mode Parallels Com

Using Parallels Compressor 255 To run Compressor:  in automatic mode, don't do anything, just wait until the timeout expires.  in manual

256 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide 2 The next dialog box informs you that Compressor is going to restart the virtual machine. 3 Compressor

Using Parallels Compressor 257 If you click the Manual mode button before the timeout expires, you can postpone the execution of the remaining tasks

258 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Click Finish to exit Parallels Compressor. Parallels Compressor Wizard In manual mode, Compressor starts

Using Parallels Compressor 259 If you choose Advanced compression, you will be able to select certain options of compression. 3 Select Logical Dis

26 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide 3 In the Software License Agreement window, carefully read the Software License Agreement. We recommend to

260 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Use check boxes to select one or more disks. Click Next. If you selected Express compression in the Step 3

Using Parallels Compressor 261 If you cleared the check box for the Truncate page file option, the wizard skips Step 5 and Step 6. 5 Preparing to

262 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide If you click Cancel, the process of virtual machine compression will be resumed automatically the next tim

Using Parallels Compressor 263 7 In the wizard's next dialog box, you can see the progress of operations. If you have chosen Express compressi

264 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Further Reducing the Disk After you have used Compressor to process your virtual machine, you can reduce

C HAPTER 14 Using Boot Camp Windows Partition This chapter provides all the information necessary to use Boot Camp partition with Windows XP or Windo

266 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Overview In the current version of Parallels Desktop you can use your Boot Camp Windows XP (SP2) or Window

Using Boot Camp Windows Partition 267 (For advanced users only). The current version of Parallels Desktop for Mac now experimentally supports so-c

268 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide 3 When OS Installation Assistant starts, select Custom mode of OS installation. 4 When prompted to sele

Using Boot Camp Windows Partition 269 Booting via Parallels Virtual Machine When you boot into Boot Camp Windows partition for the first time, you

Installing Parallels Desktop 27 4 In the Select a Destination window, select the hard disk where to install Parallels Desktop. You can install Pa

270 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Warning. In case you met an error not related to the guest OS while working with virtual machine using Boo

Using Boot Camp Windows Partition 271 Removing Parallels Data from the Boot Camp Partition If you don't want to use your Boot Camp partition

C HAPTER 15 Troubleshooting and Limitations This chapter describes how to troubleshoot known issues. In This Chapter Getting Technical Support ...

Troubleshooting and Limitations 273 Reporting a Problem to Parallels Team To help improve the quality of Parallels Desktop, you can send problem r

274 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide The Technical data field shows the name of the .txt status report file that has been generated for the err

Troubleshooting and Limitations 275 Installing Ubuntu Linux 6.0.6 Server Ubuntu Linux 6.0.6 Server when installed in a virtual machine in a standa

276 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Using Windows System File Checker During video driver installation, Parallels Desktop modifies some syste

Index A Acceleration level • 163 Accessing shared folders • 208 Activating Parallels Desktop • 30 Adapter Network adapter • 121, 156, 197, 220 Parall

278 Index animation on switching to • 144, 224 Application Switcher • 140 Coherence, options • 144, 166 SmartSelect • 140 switching to Coherence • 10

Index 279 Expanding disks • 19 Exploring virtual machines • 229 Express mode (Parallels Compressor) • 251 F Favorite Windows Applications • 49, 102

28 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide 7 The installation progress is shown in the Installing Parallels Desktop window. 8 The Installer informs

280 Index AC'97 sound driver • 89, 91, 92 Clipboard Syncronization Tool (OS/2 and eComstation) • 94 guest operating system • 74 Mouse Syncroniza

Index 281 Adjust reserved memory • 219 Change Mac OS X resolution in Dock • 107, 212, 222 Connect USB devices automatically • 188 Default folder fo

282 Index Paralells data from Boot Camp partition • 271 removing devices • 206 Windows applications from Favorites • 102 Reporting problems • 273 Res

Index 283 configuration of typical virtual machines • 55 creating typical virtual machines • 62 U Undo Disks • 163 options • 163 working with • 153

284 Index installing Parallels Tools (Windows NT) • 92 Windows taskbar in Coherence mode • 144 Windows Vista creating virtual machine in Boot Camp •

Installing Parallels Desktop 29 Upgrading to Parallels Desktop 3.0 Generally, the upgrading procedure for Parallels Desktop is the same as for its

Contents Introduction 8 About Parallels Desktop ...

30 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Activating Parallels Desktop To run Parallels Desktop, you should activate it with an activation key. If yo

Installing Parallels Desktop 31 3 In the User Registration Form dialog, specify your e-mail address and your name. The Company Name field is opti

32 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide About Registration After you have activated your copy of Parallels Desktop with a permanent activation key,

Installing Parallels Desktop 33 Automatic Updating To use the automatic updating feature, your Macintosh computer should have a stable Internet co

34 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide 4 If you want Parallels Desktop to download the updates automatically, select Download updates in backgrou

Installing Parallels Desktop 35 Settings on this dialog are used for auto-updating and are discussed in the previous topic, Auto-Updating Parallel

36 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide 4 After the update is downloaded, you will see the following message. To install the update, click Quit Ap

Installing Parallels Desktop 37 Uninstalling Parallels Desktop To uninstall Parallels Desktop: 1 Locate and open the "Parallels Desktop 3.0.

38 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide In the next dialog click Uninstall. 3 Enter your password when prompted and press Return(Enter). 4 The

C HAPTER 4 Interface Basics This chapter provides the information about Parallels Desktop main window and its controls including the Parallels Deskto

4 Contents Configuration Editor...

40 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Main Window This section provides the information on Parallels Desktop main window: different view modes an

Interface Basics 41  Toolbar; for details, see Toolbar (page 45).  Status bar at the bottom of the window is available only when the virtual m

42 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide The Select virtual machine dialog contains the following items:  The list of existing virtual machines. T

Interface Basics 43 When you open an existing virtual machine, its Configuration Page is displayed. The upper part of the page displays the virtua

44 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Guest OS Window You can interact with a running virtual machine via its guest OS window in Single Window m

Interface Basics 45 Toolbar The toolbar buttons are used to control the virtual machine.

46 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Most of the toolbar buttons become enabled only when you start the virtual machine. If you click a toolbar

Interface Basics 47 There are several pre-defined sets of toolbar button icon sets, among them: Standard and Modern. You can use any of them or cr

48 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide The following devices have icons on the status bar:  hard disk  CD/DVD-ROM  floppy disk drive  n

Interface Basics 49  select VM Configuration from the Edit menu. Note. When the virtual machine is running, Configuration Editor is not availab

Contents 5 Time Synchronization Tool Options ...117 Video

50 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide  Help menu opens Parallels Desktop Online Help or Quick Start Guide, lets you activate the product and ch

Interface Basics 51 To open the dialog, choose About Parallels Desktop from the Parallels Desktop menu. The upper part of the About Parallels Desk

52 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide License Status:  User Name and Company Name fields display the information you entered in the Activate P

C HAPTER 5 Creating a Virtual Machine This chapter describes how to create a new virtual machine and install a guest operating system. The chapter in

54 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide After completing these steps you may proceed with "fine tuning" of the virtual machine, such as s

Creating a Virtual Machine 55 Typical Configurations A typical virtual machine includes the following basic virtual hardware:  memory  hard di

56 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide OS/2 Warp 4.5 eComStation 256 6 other OS/2 128 2 Solaris 256 32 MS-DOS 32 2 Other guest OSes 256 8 OS Ins

Creating a Virtual Machine 57 Overview The assistant offers several installation modes. You can choose the mode that better fits your needs or you

58 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide 1 Choose Preferences from the Parallels Desktop menu. 2 On the General tab of the Preferences window, spe

Creating a Virtual Machine 59 3 Select Windows XP or Windows Vista. Unattended installation is available only for these two operating systems. 4

6 Contents Floppy Options...

60 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide 5 By default, the virtual machine gets its name by the name of the operating system that will be installed

Creating a Virtual Machine 61 6 Choose the preferable way of allocating the computer resources: to the virtual machine or to Mac OS X. 7 Now, I

62 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide 8 Click Finish and leave Parallels Desktop for a while. It will create a new virtual machine for you and i

Creating a Virtual Machine 63 2 Select the Typical option. Click the Next button to continue. 3 In the next dialog specify the type and the ve

64 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide 4 After that, specify a descriptive name for the virtual machine. The name is needed for identification of

Creating a Virtual Machine 65 5 Choose the preferable way of allocating the computer resources: to the virtual machine or to Mac OS X. 6 If you

66 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Note. If your Mac OS version is Mac OS Leopard, and you want to use the F8 key when installing a Windows gu

Creating a Virtual Machine 67 Custom Installation 1 Start Parallels Desktop. Choose New from the File menu. In the OS Installation dialog select

68 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide 3 In the next dialog set the amount of RAM for the new virtual machine. We strongly recommend that you al

Creating a Virtual Machine 69 4 Decide whether you want to create a new virtual hard disk, use an existing one, use Boot Camp partition or even n

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70 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide 5 If you selected to create a new virtual disk on the previous step, specify its size and format. Disk for

Creating a Virtual Machine 71 7 Specify a descriptive name for the virtual machine. Name is important if you plan to create several VMs running t

72 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide 8 Choose the preferable way of allocating the computer resources: to the virtual machine or to Mac OS X.

Creating a Virtual Machine 73 Click Next. If you have selected Host-only Networking, Shared Networking, or Networking is not required proceed to t

74 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide If you have your guest OS installation on ISO image files, click More Options, and select the ISO image opt

Creating a Virtual Machine 75 Installing a Guest Operating System You can install a guest operating system into a virtual machine from a CD or DVD

76 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Note. When installing a Windows guest OS, you may need to press F8 or other functional keys in a virtual ma

Creating a Virtual Machine 77 Upgrading Windows XP to Vista If you already have a Windows XP (Home or Professional edition) virtual machine you ca

78 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Installing Windows 98 as a Guest OS All Windows 95 and some of Windows 98 installation packages include a b

Creating a Virtual Machine 79 3 Then you can see the Fdisk options on the screen. Choose the operation to perform, the default choice is 1, press

C HAPTER 1 Introduction This chapter provides general information on technologies used by Parallels® Desktop for Mac and presents basic characteristi

80 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide To define other size type N and press Return (Enter). You will be prompted to specify the size. 6 Fdisk c

Creating a Virtual Machine 81 2 Insert the Windows 98 installation CD, or connect an ISO image of the installation disc choosing CD/DVD-ROM ->

82 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide xorgcfg Note. When configuring, please make sure that you specify video card, its memory and screen resolu

Creating a Virtual Machine 83 Capturing and Releasing the Keyboard and Mouse Input This section explains how to capture the input of input devices

84 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Installing Parallels Tools Parallels Desktop includes specially developed tools that help you use your virt

Creating a Virtual Machine 85 Parallels Tools Overview Below is the list of Parallels Tools available with the current version of Parallels Deskto

86 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Mouse Synchronization Tool Mouse Synchronization Tool provides automatic capture of the mouse input each ti

Creating a Virtual Machine 87  double-clicking the Parallels Desktop icon in the Dock, or  right-clicking the Parallels Desktop icon in the Do

88 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Clipboard Synchronization Tool + + + + Time Synchronization Tool + + + + Drag-and-Drop Tool + + F

Creating a Virtual Machine 89 Installing Parallels Tools in Windows If you created a Windows XP or Windows Vista virtual machine using OS Installa

Introduction 9 What's New in This Version Improved Coherence Now Coherence Tools integrate guest OS and Mac OS X applications even more deeply

90 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Installing Parallels Tools in Linux Parallels Tools are now available for Linux guest OSes with X.org 6.7 o

Creating a Virtual Machine 91 Windows 98 Tools Installation The sound driver for a Windows 98 guest OS requires manual installation which is perfo

92 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide 6 The Update Device Driver Wizard appears. Click the Next button. 7 Choose the Search for a better driver

Creating a Virtual Machine 93 Note: You must restart the virtual machine after the setup. AC'97 Sound Driver Installation To install the AC&a

94 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide OS/2 and eComStation Tools Installation All of the OS/2 and eComStation tools can be installed from the vmt

Creating a Virtual Machine 95 2 Select the Install/Remove line, and then select Multimedia Application Install. 3 In the IBM Multimedia Presenta

96 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide 2 Start your guest operating system. 3 Connect the vmtools.iso file to the CD/DVD-ROM drive of the virtu

Creating a Virtual Machine 97 exit 5 Restart the guest operating system by the command: init 6 Uninstalling Parallels Tools in Windows Guest OS

98 Parallels Desktop for Mac User Guide Updating Parallels Tools If you have updated Parallels Desktop, you may have virtual machines created by a

C HAPTER 6 Running Virtual Machine This chapter provides the information on the actions you can perform with a virtual machine when the guest operati