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Parallels Workstation User Guide

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3. 49 SIMI VIEW m PO 51 COM OUT ALON E OOD s 99 95 2 5 0 ike uses E A E TO E E EAT 53 sre oem 54 DOS DE succes L E M E D pU LU MM I i n MM AM E M EST 54 FOXPSIZ ogee ame Re LI KE a IE 55 About Parallels Workstation Window eese ee ee eene ener nn nennen ees 56 More MOa O Sis eer ae ee tuse ione tear Re te ORO re eee Oe Oto bla rare mee 57 Makine SCreefi Sols usto di sessastabaaatntencncneds a del bici paseo beso i eise ded ab hd tuia tatem ete u s 58 46 Error No text of specified style in document Main Window toolbar menu 0 winga pys Parallels Workstation Ele Edt View WM Devices Help Windows 2003 main machine status bar The Parallels Workstation window displays the title and configuration of an open virtual machine and a set of controls Parallels Workstation window can be displayed in two views If the virtual machine is not running the main window displays the Property Page See Property Page page 49 to learn more about it When you start the virtual machine the main window transforms into virtual machine Console on page 51 window or Guest OS window that acts like a display of a computer See the Console View on page 51 to learn more about it Controls available in both Property Page and Console view are the following Parallels Workstation menu commands and o
4. Remove Parallels Workstation emulates the Realtek AC 97 compatible sound card Device status Enable option allows using the sound device in the virtual machine If the sound device is enabled it can be connected or disconnected at runtime However if you want to temporarily disable operations with a sound device without deleting it from the configuration clear the Enabled check box Note If you start the operating system with the sound device disabled you cannot change this option at runtime Configuring a Virtual Machine 137 To start the guest OS with the sound device connected select the Activate sound at startup option Emulation Note If you are not satisfied with the quality of the sound install the AC 97 sound driver page 77 available for Windows 95 98 ME NT 2000 and for OS 2 and eComStation guest OSes Windows primary OS Specify playback sound device field contains a list of available sound devices You may select a specific device or use a Default sound playback device To mute the sound select the Loopback sound device Specify recording sound device contains a list of available devices for sound recording You may select a specific device or use a Default sound recording device If you don t want to record the sound but need to emulate this process you can select the Loopback sound device Linux primary OS Output Device field contains a list of sound adapters and virtual soun
5. Clone Virtual Machine Wizard L opying was completed Wizard has finished copying Copying of the currently opened virtual machine was successtully completed The new virtual machine will be opened in Parallels Workstation if you have selected this option Managing Virtual Machines 181 Deleting a Virtual Machine Virtual machines can be deleted manually however we recommend that you use the Delete Virtual Machine Wizard that finds all files of the virtual machine and all files connected to it and deletes them The wizard locates the following virtual machine files configuration file virtual hard disk drives connected to the virtual machine ISO images of CD DVD discs connected to the virtual machine if any floppy disk images dd connected to the virtual machine if any output files of serial and parallel ports if any folders where virtual machine files are stored The wizard can delete an open virtual machine that meets the following conditions Its guest OS is not running If it is running the Delete command in the File menu item 1s disabled The virtual machine is not opened by another instance of Parallels Workstation The virtual machine 1s not blank To delete a virtual machine 1 Open the virtual machine that you want to delete 182 Error No text of specified style in document 2 Select Delete VM in VM menu The Welcome to the Delete Virtual Machine Wizard window opens Click N
6. Parallels Tools package includes an AC 97 sound driver for those guest operating systems that do not have a standard AC 97 driver Sound drivers for Windows XP 2003 are not included in the Parallels Tools pack since these operating systems have sound drivers in their installations Time Synchronization Tool Time Synchronization Tool enables you to configure time settings on your guest OS With this tool you can synchronize time between your host and guest OS set up and maintain time difference between your host and guest OS For instructions on using the tool see Time Synchronization Tool Options page 106 for Windows guest OSes and Parallels Tools for Linux page 112 for Linux guest OSes Note If you installed other time synchronization software stop it before installing Parallels Tools in order to avoid potential conflicts Video Driver The best graphical mode available in Windows NT and Windows 2000 guest operating systems without this driver is 16 color VGA with 640x480 resolution The video driver allows Parallels Workstation to use SVGA graphical modes in guest OS monitors In Windows XP 2003 the video driver is required for the mouse tool and is chosen automatically when you select the mouse tool installation Note If you install the video driver you will not be able to use VGA modes To return to VGA you must uninstall the Parallels Tools Parallels Tools Availability The table below shows what tools are av
7. 5 In the Specify source and destination folder dialog box select the expanding hard disk in the Source list You may type the path and the file name Alternatively click Choose locate and select the expanding hard disk image Using Parallels Image Tool 201 Specify the name and location for the plain copy of the hard disk image file in the Destination field Click Next F Parallels Image Tool Specily source and destination Specify source image or device and deshmation path for the oulput data You are going to convert expanding virtual hard disk into plain one Please select source virtual hard disk and deshination path for the output disk image Source and destination Source Browne 6 In the Review processing options dialog box carefully review the settings If everything is correct click the Start button to convert the hard disk 7 After the disk image has been converted click Exit in the Processing is completed dialog box Defragmenting an Expanding Disk To optimize the file arrangement on an expanding virtual disk and to increase its speed you can defragment the disk To defragment an expanding hard disk image Start Parallels Image Tool 2 Inthe Welcome dialog box select the Skip Introduction next time option if you want to skip this dialog box next time you run the Image Tool Click Next 3 Inthe Select device type dialog box select the Hard Disk Drive option and click Next 202 Error No text of spec
8. Interface Basics 49 Property Page winxp pvs Parallels Workstation File Edit View VM Devices Help Microsoft Windows XP Configuration File Lacatian Guest 5 Acceleration Modified Resources Ex Memory E Hard Disk 1 CD DVD ROM 1 9 Network Adapter 1 e Sound USB Controller C Documents and Settingsselenan sStart Menu ly Documents Parallels Virtual I achines vwingpeinsp pv Windows F Boot Sequence Hard Disk Floppy CO ROM High Auto Start e Off 20 03 2007 16 09 57 VI State amp Stopped 256 MB Bunt MB C Documents and Settingsselenan sStart MenusMy D acuments Parallels Virtual I achines winspyeansp hdd DWwiresP_SP2 iso Bridged Ethernet Playback enabled Recording enabled Autoconnect Oni 90 Error No text of specified style in document Property Page appears whenever you open an existing virtual machine or create a new one The upper part of the page Configuration displays the virtual machine name location of the configuration file type of the guest operating system regardless whether or not it 1s installed acceleration level last modification date etc These settings can be changed with the help of Configuration Editor Click any of the links to open Configuration Editor on page 118 The Resources list shows all the devices connected to the virtual machine and their current options To edit any device simply click the device name Configuration Editor will o
9. Linux changing resolution in Linux 167 printing in Linux 115 supported versions 13 updating Parallels Workstation Linux 38 Local Area Network accessing 165 MAC address in cloned virtual machine 178 in virtual machine 131 Maintaining virtual hard disks 114 Making screen shots 58 Media changing 98 Memory in virtual machine 124 limit for all virtual machines 171 Memory allocation 171 Memory tab 171 Microphone USB connecting 103 Microsoft Windows supported versions 13 Mouse capturing e 93 releasing 93 synchronization between primary OS and guest OS 77 108 Mouse Synchronization Tool 108 MS DOS supported 13 N Named pipe 133 Network adapter 101 adding network adapter 139 connecting network adapted 101 disconnecting network adapter 101 Host Guest Virtual NIC 165 219 in virtual machine 131 network adapter options 131 removing network adapter 164 Network driver Parallels Tools 77 Network printer 115 Network tab 172 Networking Bridged Ethernet 165 host only 165 O Opening Index 223 Configuration Editor opening 53 virtual machine opening 91 Operating system installing in Virtual Machine 72 primary OS 10 supported guest OSes 13 supported Linux primary OSes 19 supported Windows primary OSes 19 OS Window mode 96 OS 2 network driver eComStation 85 Parallels Tools installation OS 2 85 sound driver OS
10. Proceed to the Step 9 70 Error No text of specified style in document 8 To use an existing hard disk image the option selected in Step 5 specify its location Use the Browse button to locate it or type the path and file name directly into the field New Virtual Machine Wizard Select an image file Where the hard disk image file is located Please specify a location of the hard disk image file Click Next 9 In the next window specify the type of networking for the new virtual machine Select Bridged Ethernet if you want to access the Internet inside the virtual machine Select Host only Networking if don t want to access the outside network from your computer See Networking in Virtual Machine page 164 for detailed information about these types of networking Creating a Virtual Machine 71 If you do not have physical network interface card or do not need a network adapter in this virtual machine select the Networking is not required option New Virtual Machine Wizard Select a type of networking What network type do you want to use with this virtual machine Please specify what kind of networking you want to add to the virtual machine Use this option if you need to connect your virtual machine to Local or Wide Area Network C3 Host only Networking Use this option if you want to create private network shared with the host O Networking is not required Use this option if networking environment Is not requir
11. Select Install Remove line and then select Multimedia Application Install In the IBM Multimedia Presentation Manager 2 Installation window choose CD ROM drive then Drivers Sound O82 directory Select the ALC Codec feature and click the Install button 86 Error No text of specified style in document 4 Restart the OS 2 guest operating system Network Driver Installation To install Realtek RTL8029 driver inside the OS 2 Warp version 4 0 Click the System Setup icon on the system panel Click the MPTS Network Adapters and Protocol Services icon to open the Multi Protocol Transport Services window Click Configure In the window that appears click Configure again In the Adapter and Protocol Configuration window click the Other adapters button below the Network Adapters section In the Copy Additional Network Adapter Drivers window specify the path to the Parallels driver on CD ROM disc image The path will be like the one below CD ROM drive gt Drivers Network RTL8029 NDIS20S2 Click OK The Parallels network adapter driver will be copied After this you can see the name RTL8029 PCI Ethernet Adapter included in the Network Adapters list Select this name Click Change in the Network Adapters section of the window to replace the current network adapter by the selected one Click OK when the message Are you sure you want to change this network adapter is displayed After you click OK the RTL8029 PCI Ethernet Ada
12. 126 Error No text of specified style in document Use image file option Select it to use a floppy disk image the dd file A new field Image File appears Specify the path to a disk image file or click the Browse button and locate the file Recreate button Click the button to create a blank floppy image Specify the location and the name of the file in the Image File field and click Recreate button The size of a floppy disk image equals 1 44 MB The default extension for a floppy disk is fdd Hard Disk Options The current version of Parallels Workstation supports using only hard disk images in hdd format as virtual hard disks Refer to Hard Disk Images topic page 16 to learn about disk formats and other options Up to four IDE devices both hard disks and CD DVD ROM drives can be connected to a virtual machine currently Configuration Editor Resource Description Hard Disk Options Advanced o Options Windows F Ge Shared Folders 0 folders 0 enabled Md ate Video items 0 enabled Enabled Li Memory 256 MB 4 Floppy A amp Hard Disk 1 8000 MB C Documents 2 CD DVD ROM 1 D AWwinkP_SP2 iso 3 Network Adapt Bridged Ethernet C Documents and Settings elenan Start MenuAMy Sound Default sound playback d o USB Controller Autoconnect On Virtual Disk Size S000 MB Emulation Image File Use Recreate button below to create virtual hard disk of the same size or different size from the scr
13. CD ROM Hard Disk Floppy or to Floppy Hard Disk CD ROM depending on the installation media you are going to use 2 Important Change the type of the guest OS on the General Options tab in Configuration Editor 3 Save changes in configuration by clicking the Save button in the lower part of the Configuration Editor window or by choosing Save from the File menu Insert the CD with upgrade or connect the image of this CD Start the virtual machine Follow the Setup instructions Warning Even if the upgrade follows the existing official path the upgrade can fail Configuring X Window System in FreeBSD Guest OS If you want to use the X Window System graphic shell in a FreeBSD guest OS you should configure it manually Running automatic configuration command X probeonly or X configure may not work The X Window System can be configured using xorgconfig text utility or xorgcfg graphical utility You need root privileges to run them To start manual configuration 1 Start the virtual machine Log in as root 76 Error No text of specified style in document 2 Type one of the following commands in the command line xorgconfig or xorgcfg Note When configuring please remember you are specifying video card its memory and screen resolution for the virtual machine not for the host computer 1 For the virtual machine video card select Generic VESA compatible 2 Select 4096K of video memory that is the default val
14. Common Memory Network User Interface Release input key combination Ctrl Ak C Shit L Custom Fullscreen toggle key combination Ctr Ak Shift Custom Managing Virtual Machines 177 You can define two hot key combinations For releasing the keyboard and mouse input to the primary OS The default hot key is CLE JeEATL For switching a guest OS window to full screen mode and back The default hot key is ALCTENCOY You can set your own hot key combinations for each case The key combination must include one or more special keys Ctrl Alt and Shift and an ordinary key To define new key combination do the following Select one or more special keys To add an ordinary key select the Custom option point to the blank button to the right of the Custom option and press the key on the keyboard Some keys and key combinations cannot be used as Parallels Workstation hot keys In Windows primary OS The Tab and the Pause keys are not allowed as custom keys In Linux primary OS It is not allowed to use the Pause key and the following key combinations since they are Linux OS hot keys CeritAle Backspace Ctr1l Alt any key in the range of FI FI2 i e Ctr1l Alt F1 Ctrl Al1t F12 Notes If you install Parallels Tools you can release the mouse and the keyboard input to the primary OS without pressing the hot key combination See the Capturing and Releasing the Keyboard and the Mouse page 93 topic
15. If you run a guest OS with VT x support enabled it is indicated in the About Parallels Workstation window see the More Information page 57 section 122 Error No text of specified style in document Process priorities Note Process priorities options are available in Windows primary OS only When running in foreground This option defines the priority for the virtual machine process when VM is running in the foreground mode i e when the virtual machine window is active When running in background This option defines the priority for the virtual machine process when VM is running in the background mode i e when the virtual machine window is not active Misc flags PC speaker support enabled If this option is selected PC speaker sounds will be generated upon certain virtual machine operations Autostart VM when configuration is loaded After you open the virtual machine configuration the VM will be automatically started Switch to fullscreen mode automatically As soon as the virtual machine is started it will run in the full screen mode Exit application on VM shutdown If this option 1s selected the Parallels Workstation window will be closed automatically after the virtual machine is stopped or suspended By default this option is not selected Shared Folders Note Options on this tab are available in Windows 2000 XP 2003 guest OSes only In other guest OSes you will see the message Feature is not availa
16. Independent copy of the virtual machine Please click Next button to proceed Click Cancel to exit the wizard Managing Virtual Machines 179 3 In the Specify new virtual machine name and location window specify a name for the clone and a location for its configuration file By default the wizard adds Clone of at the beginning of the original virtual machine s file name You can specify another name and location Remember that a virtual machine name must not exceed 50 characters Select the Open virtual machine in new window automatically option to open the cloned VM in a new Parallels Workstation window when the cloning is complete Click Finish to start copying the virtual machine Clone Virtual Machine Wizard Specify new virtual machine name and location What ix the name of the new virtual machine and where do you want to store its configuration Please enter a name of the new virtual machine Please specify a location of the new virtual machine configuration File CA Documents and SettingssLig amp nsy D ocuments Parallels Virtual Machi L Open virtual machine m new window automatically If the specified destination folder does not exist you will be prompted to confirm its creation Click Yes A new folder will be created 180 Error No text of specified style in document 4 The Copying in progress window indicates the current state of the process When the copying is complete click Exit to close the wizard
17. Memory Size IBN Video 0 items 0 enabled Ed Memory RAM 256 2 E Floppy A E Hard Disk 1 S000 MB C Documents a J amp LD Dvb RO DrSwinsP SP2 Iso 3 Network Adap Bridged Ethernet Sound Default sound playback de 4 MB 1200 MB Recommended AAM maximum size is 788 MB This parameter defines a size of virtual random access memory HM which will be emulated for this specific virtual machine Virtual machine will be able to access an exact amaut of virtual memory specified above Cen ie In the RAM field you can set the amount of memory RAM that the virtual machine can use You can choose any value from 4 to 1500 MB the value should be in multiples of 4 To set this value use the slider the spin buttons or type the value directly into the field The recommended maximum value is specified below the slider on this tab this value can be adjusted on the Memory tab on page 171 in the Preferences window If the guest OS requires more memory for its operation than it 1s specified in this field the swapping to hard disk will be used thus slowing down both the guest and the primary OSes performance Configuring a Virtual Machine 125 Floppy Options A virtual machine floppy drive can be connected to a real floppy drive as well as to an image of floppy disk To get information on floppy disk images used by Parallels Workstation read Floppy Disk Images page 17 Configuration Editor Resou
18. Running a Virtual Machine 91 Selecting and Opening Virtual Machine When you start Parallels Workstation the last used virtual machine 1s opened by default This option is controlled by the Load recently used VM at startup setting on the Common tab page 170 of the Preferences window You may turn this option off to start Parallels Workstation with Startup Options dialog then the last used virtual machine can be opened via the Recently Used list Opening Recently Used VM The File menu includes the list of recently used configurations The list contains six last used configuration files Use this method to open the virtual machine you recently worked with If the required virtual machine is not shown in the Recently Used list you may find it manually browsing the hard disk for the configuration file Opening a Virtual Machine When Other is Running Y ou may open an additional instance of the Parallels Workstation using the menu To do this Choose New Window from the File menu If Parallels Workstation is configured to load the last used virtual machine on startup the last used VM is already run by another instance of Parallels Workstation A new window is opened either with the Startup Options page 47 dialog if the Show startup dialog option is selected on the Common tab of the Preferences window or with a blank virtual machine Select the virtual machine or create a new one Starting a Virtual Machine Note The v
19. deb are not supported in your system ocate file Parallels 2 2 xxxx lin tgz and extract it into any existing directory tar xzpf Parallels 2 2 xxxx lin tgz C directory name Go to the directory where you unpacked the t gz file and issue the next command cd parallels 2 2 xxxx lin Run the following command Installing Parallels Workstation 29 install sh 6 After the installation completes run the post installation script Issue the following command parallels config 7 When prompted press Enter on the keyboard 8 Read the license agreement scrolling it by pressing Spacebar on your keyboard To accept the agreement type y or yes in either upper or lower case and press Enter 9 The Parallels Workstation setup program configures compiles and installs the drivers You will be informed about the successful completion 10 To exit the Terminal issue the command exit You can now run Parallels Workstation Troubleshooting If you receive a Can not configure or Can not compile message note that you should have kernel sources installed you can view log file and try to fix problem yourself The log file is named usr lib parallels comp log lt log number gt error If you can not fix the problem yourself please send the log file and problem description to reports parallels com We will assist you as soon as possible Starting Parallels Workstation To start Parallels Workstation in Linux Lo
20. r Parallels Enter the root password when prompted 3 Ifboth rpm and deb are not supported in your system In the Terminal run the following command su to gain root privileges Enter the password to the root account when prompted Go to the installation directory and run uninstall sh script Leave the root account by entering the following command exit CHAPTER 4 Updating Parallels Workstation This chapter discusses how to update Parallels Workstation in both Windows and Linux primary operating systems In This Chapter Updating Parallels Workstation 1n Windows cccccccccesseeseeececeeeeaaeeeeecceeeeeaaaeseseeeeeeeeeaas 33 Updating Parallels Workstation 1n Linux eeeeeeeeeeeseeeeeeennnnnnenenenn nnne 38 Updating Parallels Workstation in Windows Update procedure in Windows primary OS consists of the following steps 1 Getting to know about a new update We recommend that you use the auto update feature of Parallels Workstation to be informed when a new update is available See Auto Updating Parallels Workstation in Windows page 34 Alternatively you may check for new updates using Update Wizard or you may check the Parallels web site 2 Downloading and installing Parallels Workstation update There are two ways to download an update Using the Update Wizard If you use the auto update feature it informs you when the update is available and launches the Parallels Upda
21. 1 Getting to know about a new update We recommend that you use the Auto update feature of Parallels Workstation to be informed when a new update is available See Auto Updating Parallels Workstation in Linux page 39 Alternatively you may check for new updates by using Update Wizard or you may check the Parallels web site Downloading Parallels Workstation update There are two ways to download an update Using the Update Wizard If you use the Auto update feature it informs you when the update is available and launches the Parallels Update Wizard for downloading If you do not use the Auto update feature you can start Parallels Update Wizard manually See Update Wizard in Linux page 39 Manually from Parallels web site Installing the update After you have downloaded the update install it See Installing an Update page 43 topic for guidelines If you need to install an earlier version of Parallels Workstation than the one currently installed remove the program and install the required version Updating Parallels Workstation 39 Auto Updating Parallels Workstation in Linux Parallels Workstation includes an auto update feature When starting Parallels Workstation for the first time you will get the message Parallels Workstation is configured to automatically check for updates every week To do this your host computer should be connected to the Internet You may choose another checking period or disable this f
22. 106 Error No text of specified style in document Time Synchronization Tool Options Parallels Tools Center Tool Status Time Synchronization Options Enabled Enabled Status Video Driver Enabled Enabled a Mouse Synchronization Enabled D Network Driver Enabled qe A Synchronization interval sec 8 4 E Disk Compacting Enabled CE Advanced options B hared Folders Ewabled Keep time difference between primary and quest 05 Description The Time Synchronization allows quest OS to keep the same system time as the primary OS Without this tool the quest OS system time may differ from the primary OS systern time To sunchronize the quest OS system time with the primary OS select the Enabled checkbox and set the desired value in the Synchronization interval Field This tool alzo allows you to maintain a constant difference between the quest 05 system time and primary OS system time To use this feature enable the Time Synchronization select the Keep time difference checkbox and set the desired current time Far the quest 05 7 he Time Synchronization will calculate the lagadvance value at the moment when guest OS time is set and will maintain it Status Enabled option shows the current status of the Time Synchronization Tool To temporarily disable this tool clear this check box Note Before starting the Time Synchronization Tool please stop all other time synchronization services to avoid potential confl
23. 4 5 FreeBSD Guest Operating Systems FreeBSD 5 4 5 3 4 5 4 1 OS 2 and eComStation Guest Operating Systems OS 2 Warp 4 5 4 3 14 Error No text of specified style in document eComstation 1 2 1 1 Sun Solaris amp Guest Operating Systems Solaris 10 9 MS DOS Guest Operating Systems MS DOS 6 22 Parallels Virtual Machines 15 Virtual Machine Files Hardware configuration for each virtual machine is defined in a special configuration file with pvs extension It contains all the information about virtual devices used by the virtual machine and files connected to those devices A virtual machine has at least two files a configuration file and a hard disk image file Generally there may be more files a file for each additional virtual hard disk and output files for virtual ports As an exception virtual machine may have only one file configuration file such a virtual machine can be started from a Live CD The following table describes the types of files that virtual machines may have This is a virtual machine configuration file One configuration file defines one virtual machine Configuration file is generated by the New Virtual Machine Wizard page 59 when the virtual machine is created One instance of Parallels Workstation can run only one configuration file that is only one virtual machine To run several virtual machines you should launch several instances of Parallels Workstation Thi
24. 58 Error No text of specified style in document Virtual Machine Special Features On this list you can see what special features the virtual machine uses at runtime When the virtual machine is stopped the list shows that all features are off Virtualization mode shows the virtualization mode or acceleration level If you work on an Intel VT enabled processor and hardware virtualization support is activated on the VM Flags page 121 tab of the General Options then there will be Intel VT x This line shows AMD V when you work on an AMD V processor and hardware virtualization support is activated on the VM Flags page 121 tab of the General Options See Intel Virtualization Technology VT x and AMD V Support page 11 for a description of both types of hardware virtualization If the VM is running without hardware acceleration the virtualization mode line indicates the acceleration level All guest OSes except Windows NT 2000 XP 2003 run in Software mode 0 Windows NT 2000 XP 2003 starts with Software mode 0 then switch to Software mode 1 and Software mode 2 in case the Acceleration Level setting on the VM Flags page 121 tab of the General Options is set to High Remote session indicates if Parallels Workstation is executed on a remote server Making Screen Shots Parallels Workstation allows you to make screen shots of the guest operating system window when the guest OS is running Click Console Screenshot in the VM men
25. A E Hard Disk 1 a000 MB C Documents a S ECD DVD RO D winxP SP2 iso e Network Adap Bridged Ethernet Sound Default sound playback de When running in foreground PUSE Controller amp utaconnect On When running in background Misc Flags PC speaker support enabled Process Priorities Autostart Vd when configuration is loaded Switch to fullscreen mode automatically Exit application on WM shutdown The VM Flags tab contains startup and shutdown options and various options that affect the performance of the virtual machine Emulation flags Acceleration level Acceleration enables a number of the guest OS specific performance optimization options We recommend that you choose the High level If you notice incorrect guest operating system behaviour while running with high acceleration shut down the guest OS and lower the acceleration level After removing the problem restore the acceleration level Note that without acceleration at all Disabled level the virtual machine runs very slowly Enable hardware virtualization support option is available for editing if your host computer has either an Intel processor with Virtualization Technology support or an AMD processor with the AMD Virtualization technology By default the hardware acceleration is enabled See Intel Virtualization Technology VT x and AMD V Support page 11 to learn about hardware virtualization support in Parallels Workstation
26. Command Button panel or choose Edit Configuration from the File menu or just click a device name in the Resources list 3 Choose the hardware in the Resources list in the left part of the Configuration Editor window to open the hardware options tab in the right part of the Configuration Editor window Note In Linux primary OS you must have system privileges to connect a real device to the virtual machine Otherwise the real device will not appear in the list of available devices even if it is installed on your computer Configuring a Virtual Machine 119 Saving Virtual Machine Configuration After you have changed the settings of the devices in Configuration Editor you must save the virtual machine configuration to enable the changes Save 1 Click OK on the Configuration Editor window then click the button on the Command Button panel or choose Save from the File menu The file will be saved in its current location and with the current name 2 To save the configuration in another location or with another name choose Save As from the File menu After you have saved the file its new file name appears in the title bar and the path to it and its new name appear in the File Location field on Property Page page 49 General Options The General Options tab for the Options item in the Resources list in Configuration Editor contains the VM s general settings Configuration Editor Resource Description General Options B
27. Control Panel For this click the Start system menu select the Settings item and then Control Panel Double click the Display icon to open the Display Properties window In the Display Properties window select the Settings tab Then click the Display Type button In the Display Type window select the Change button oa A W N In the Change Display window select the Manufacturers gt Parallels and Display gt Parallels Video Driver Click OK In the Third party Drivers window click Yes Installing Driver window informs you about successfully completed installation Click OK Click the Close button in the Display Type window Click the Close button in the Display Properties window O CON O 0 Click the Yes button in the System Settings Change window to restart the guest OS 82 Error No text of specified style in document Note You must restart the virtual machine after the setup AC 97 Sound Driver Installation To install AC 97 Sound Driver do the following 1 8 9 Open the Control Panel For this click the system Start menu Then select Settings Control Panel Double click the Multimedia icon In the Multimedia Properties window select the Devices tab Then select the Audio Devices from Multimedia devices list Click the Add button In the Add window select the Unlisted or Updated Driver from List of Drivers Click OK In the Install Driver window click the Browse button and select the path to the so
28. DVD ROM drive can access may also be changed 130 Error No text of specified style in document Connect at startup option If the CD DVD ROM drive is enabled select this option to start the guest OS with the CD DVD drive connected Emulation Use real CD DVD ROM option If you have a physical CD DVD ROM drive on your computer you can select the Use real CD DVD ROM option to use the drive from inside the virtual machine The name of the physical CD DVD ROM for example D will be shown in the CD DVD ROM drives drop down list and available for selection Note In Linux primary OS you must have root privileges to connect the virtual machine s CD DVD ROM drive to a real CD DVD ROM drive Otherwise the real CD DVD ROM drive will not appear in the list of available devices even though it is installed on your computer Use image file option To use a CD DVD image e g the iso file select this option Once you selected it the field where you can specify the CD DVD image file appears Specify the path to your CD DVD image file or click the Browse button and locate the CD DVD image file Attachment Options Connect to field Choose the IDE channel to connect the CD DVD ROM image to If you want the CD DVD ROM drive to be the startup drive select IDE 0 1 Note that if you set two startup drives at once hard disk IDE 0 0 and CD DVD ROM IDE 0 1 the guest OS will try to boot according to the booting sequence set on the B
29. Deleting virtual machines 181 Devices adding to virtual machine 139 boot sequence 120 configuring in virtual machine 118 connecting and disconnecting in a running virtual machine 98 emulated in virtual machine 12 DHCP server 165 172 Directory 222 Index default directory for virtual machines 170 for cloned virtual machine 178 for custom virtual machine 65 Disconnecting Network adapter 101 parallel port 102 serial port 102 sound device 102 Disk Compacting Tool 110 113 Disk format Parallels Image Tool 16 DVD ROM drive connecting 100 E eComStation Parallels Tools Installation 76 Editing virtual machine configuration 118 Enlarging virtual hard disks 196 Expanding disks 16 197 F Fat 16 32 113 FDD 15 17 Files screen shot files 58 sharing files 122 status report e 214 virtual machine files 15 Firewall 216 Floppy disk creating new blank image 125 floppy disk images used by virtual machine e 17 Floppy drive connecting floppy drive 100 floppy options 125 Font for dialogs in Linux primary OS 174 FreeBSD configuring X Window system 75 network adapter options 131 printing in FreeBSD e 115 supported versions 13 Full screen mode autorun in full screen mode 121 configuring the display for 218 switching to full screen mode 96 G General options 119 Getting support 213 Guest operating system installing guest OS
30. EP USB Controller Windows sF D folders 0 enabled D items 0 enabled 256 MB A SOOO MB C Documents a Dwin PSPZ Bridged Ethernet Default sound playback de Autoconnect Or Boot Sequence Floppy Hard Disk CD ROM O CD ROM Hard Disk Floppy On the Booting Options tab you can select the booting sequence that is the order in which the virtual machine will try to boot from different devices You can choose one of the three pre defined sequences Floppy Hard Disk CD ROM Hard Disk CD ROM Floppy CD ROM Hard Disk Floppy During startup the virtual machine checks the first device or media of the boot sequence and tries to boot from it If the media is not found or is not bootable the virtual machine will proceed with the next device in the boot sequence and so on Note Please make sure that the boot disk hard disk CD ROM floppy disk is available and configured correctly If you don t have any boot device in your virtual machine in case of a new blank virtual machine then after you power it on you will see the error message Stop the virtual machine and correct the configuration Configuring a Virtual Machine 121 VM Flags Configuration Editor Resource Description General Options Booting Options VM Flags 27 Options Windows XP Ge Shared Folders folders 0 enabled Emulation Flags IBN Video 0 items 0 enabled su SE E Acceleration level v mw Floppy
31. From the remainder you can select the maximum RAM allowed for Parallels virtual machines If you have only one virtual machine running it may use all the memory specified here If you have several virtual machines running simultaneously this memory will be shared between them Memory for a specific virtual machine is set on the Memory tab page 124 in Configuration Editor Memory amount must be specified in multiples of 4 To set the value use the slider the spin buttons in the Reserved memory limit field or type the value directly into the field Network Preferences Preferences Common Memory Network User Interface Hot keys DHCP scope options for host only networking Scope start address Scope end address Scope mask Managing Virtual Machines 173 Parallels Workstation provides host only network accessible only to the primary system and virtual machines running in it Methods of configuring different types of host only network are discussed in the Creating Host Only Network page 165 topic The Network tab is intended for specifying a range of IP addresses to be assigned to virtual machines by Parallels DHCP server when configuring host only network with dynamic IP addresses The Scope start address and Scope end address values define the first and the last IP addresses DHCP server usually assigns the first address of this scope to itself The second address is usually given to the primary operating system Ot
32. Hard Disk 1 5 CD DVD ROM 1 e Network Adapt Sound gj USB Controller Serial 1 Device status Description Windows P O folders 0 enabled 0 items D enabled 256 MB A Bunt MB C Documents D SwnxP SP21s0 Bridged Ethernet Default sound playback d Autoconnect On COM Seral Port Options Device Status Enabled Connect at startup Emulation 5 Use port COM Port COMI C Use pipe O Use output file If you wish to temporarily disable operations with a serial port without deleting it from the configuration clear the Enabled check box Note If you start the operating system with the serial port disabled it can not be connected or disconnected at runtime If you have enabled the port you can select the Connect at startup option to start the guest OS with this port connected Emulation Parallels Workstation provides three options of serial port emulation Connect it to a physical device Use port option Connect to an output file Use output file option The third option is different in the Windows and Linux versions of Parallels Workstation Use pipe option in the Windows primary OS Use socket option in the Linux primary OS 134 Error No text of specified style in document These methods are described below 1 If you have selected Use port the drop down COM Port list displays the list of available real COM ports Select one of them to
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34. ROM drive or Connect image to access an image file Note You may also change the media using the commands from the context menu of the floppy drive FA icon on the status bar Connecting Network Adapter When running a virtual machine with a network adapter you can connect or disconnect the network adapter switch between different adapters of your host computer and host only networking mode Connecting or Disconnecting Network Adapter To connect or disconnect network adapter do the following 1 Choose Network from the Devices menu 2 Select the Connect or Disconnect command to connect or disconnect network adapter respectively Note You may also connect or disconnect a network adapter using the context menu of the network adapter EJ on the status bar Switching Between Physical Adapters To switch a network adapter of the virtual machine for using another physical adapter 1 Check what network adapter the virtual machine is now using To learn this click the network adapter icon i3 on the status bar The Mode line shows the type of networking Bridged Ethernet or Host Only the Name line shows the name of the network adapter to which the virtual machine is connected 2 Set a different network adapter Right click the network adapter icon 3 on the status bar to display the context menu Choose the desired adapter from the context menu 102 Error No text of specified style in document Note You may also switch bet
35. Resource Description Network Adapter Options amp dvanced o Options Windows sF ig Shared Folders 0 folders 0 enabled uc Du ideo items 0 enabled Isl Memory 256 MB 7 Floppy A MAC address D07DB44288A8 Bl Hard Disk 1 ann MB C Documents amp LD DVvD ROUM 1 BrSwnsP SP24so 3 Network Adapt Bridged Ethernet Sound Default sound playback d T USE Controller Autoconnect On Remove This tab allows you to specify a network driver to be used in the guest OS In the current version of the Parallels Workstation a RTL8029 driver for the Ethernet adapter is supported It is already selected in the Type field You can find native Realtek RTL8029 drivers for many different guest OSes in the Parallels Tools page 76 package See Installing Parallels Tools page 76 In Windows 2000 XP 2003 guest operating systems you can improve network performance by installing a specially developed PRLETH driver that can be found in the Parallels Tools page 76 pack A MAC address is generated automatically but can be changed manually If you decide to change it please make sure that the number is unique inside your network Serial Port Options Configuring a Virtual Machine 133 Parallels Workstation allows up to four serial ports to be connected to a virtual machine Serial Port Options in Windows primary OS Configuration Editor Resource o Options Le Shared Folders Video lal Memory 4 Floppy E
36. Tools Center open the Disk Compacting Tool tab OO On the Disk Compacting Tool tab the table in the Status group displays the list of volumes disks and partitions that can be compacted Select the volumes you want to compact Note that the compacting will be more efficient if you select all partitions on the virtual disk If you want to perform both stages of compacting at once select the Execute all stages at once option Click Start All the selected disks will be processed one by one 4 The first stage that is cleaning of unused space may take a significant time 114 Error No text of specified style in document 5 If you have selected the Execute all stages at once option the second stage starts immediately after the first The Disk Compacting Tool pauses the virtual machine and processes the virtual disk files in the primary OS The Compacting virtual hard disk dialog box is displayed Click Cancel to stop compacting in this case the sizes of virtual disk files will not be reduced When the process of compacting is successfully completed click OK 6 If you have NOT selected the Execute all stages at once option When the first stage of processing disks 1s complete you will see the following message You are able either start compacting right now or do it when the virtual machine is powered off You may select to perform the second stage of compacting later See One Stage Disk Compacting below One Stage Disk Com
37. Used to emphasize the message Used to warn you about possible data loss Warning Introduction 9 Key lt key gt click Used to direct you to press the key and click the mouse Combinations button lt key gt lt key gt Used to direct you to press the keys simultaneously Abbreviations used in text In the present guide the following abbreviations are used OS is used instead of operating system in some long sentences where using it will not change the meaning of the sentence VM is used instead of virtual machine in some long sentences where using it will not change the meaning of the sentence Definitions Primary operating system primary OS In this Guide this term is used to refer to the operating system that controls the I O devices of the computer and that is loaded when the physical computer is turned on that is Mac OS X Guest operating system guest OS The term is used to refer to an operating system that runs under the virtual machine control Getting Help Parallels Workstation offers several options for accessing necessary information Parallels Workstation User Guide This document contains extensive information about the product its usage and troubleshooting You can access the Guide from the Parallels Workstation Help menu or use its PDF version available from the Parallels Workstation folder The default location is C Program Files Parallels Parallels Workstation Context sensiti
38. and the real network interface is chosen Networking in the guest OS is configured You as the primary OS user have permissions to access the network printer In Linux or FreeBSD Guest Operating System Make sure that the following components are installed in your guest Linux or FreeBSD system Common UNIX Printing System CUPS Installation instructions can be found at CUPS web site http cups org documentation php Samba service Installation instructions can be found at Samba web site http us4 samba org samba docs man Samba HOWTO Collection install html A Web browser since CUPS controlling is performed via web interface Also you have to know the password to root account To add a network printer in a Linux or FreeBSD guest OS 1 Start your Linux or FreeBSD guest operating system 116 2 Error No text of specified style in document Start Common UNIX Printing System In the Terminal issue the command etc init d cups start 3 9 Start a Web browser and open either IP address of your virtual machine or Htcpc X127 090239591 Select Printers in menu Click the Add printer button below the list of available printers 1f any Enter the root password when prompted In the Add New Printer window enter the information for easy identification of the printer a printer name its location and description In the Device for Printer Name window select the Windows Printer via Samba In
39. avzilable updates click Next button Cancel Click Next 4 When the wizard gets build numbers of available updates it compares them with the installed version 42 Error No text of specified style in document If the wizard finds a more recent version of Parallels Workstation than the one currently installed it displays the update in the following window vw Parallels U pdate UTI d Please select updates to download Wizard has detected that following updates are available UpdateName Size F Parallels Workstation 2 2 for Linux build 2080 Thank you for caoosing Parallels Workstationhn Y ours sincerely Parallels Team Please select updates you wart to install by checking corresponding rows in the table Click Download button to proceed Make sure that the latest version is selected and click Download Updating Parallels Workstation 43 5 The wizard downloads the update When finished the wizard displays the command s you should execute to install the update Proceed to Installing an Update page 43 to perform the installation Parallels Update Wizard Download is completed The Parallels Workstation 2 2 Linux update was downloaded to the home anya parallelsupdate directory To install it please close all running instances of Parallels Workstation and execute the following command rpm U homej anva parallelsupdate Parallels 2 2 2080 lin i386 rpm You have to be root to be able to execute this comman
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41. configured to warn you every time an unsigned driver is installed Parallels Tools installation wizard prompts you to temporarily disable these warnings 80 Error No text of specified style in document When you receive the following message Parallels Tools installation contains a number of unsigned drivers These drivers are required for proper functioning of Parallels Tools Currently your system is configured to warn you every time an unsigned driver is installed Do you want to receive these warnings during Parallels Tools installation click OK to disable the unsigned driver warnings during Parallels Tools installation They will be re enabled later when the installation is complete 10 When the wizard finishes copying files the Installation Completed window appears In all of the Windows guest OSes except Windows 98 and Windows NT you must restart the virtual machine after the setup Accept the selected option and click Finish The virtual machine will be restarted Note On Windows NT and Windows 98 guest OS you will need to install some tools manually For details see Installing Sound Driver in Windows 98 page 80 and Installing Parallels Tools in Windows NT page 81 Troubleshooting When Installing Tools Parallels Tools installation is invoked by Windows AUTORUN feature for CD DVD ROM drive It is enabled by default however if you have disabled it manually nothing happens after you select the Install Parallels Too
42. connect to the virtual port Note In Linux primary OS you must have root privileges to connect the real device to the virtual machine serial port Otherwise the real serial port will not appear in the list of available devices 2 If you have selected Use output file specify the existing file using the Browse button or create a new one The new file is created in the virtual machine folder 3 Windows primary OS If you have selected the Use pipe option the Pipe name field will contain a default pipe name Use it or type a new name in the following format pipe lt name gt In the adjacent field select a role at this end of the pipe Linux primary OS If you have selected Use socket the Socket Name field will contain a default socket name Use it or type a new name in the following format tmp lt socket gt If incorrect name is specified you will get a message when the virtual machine is started In the adjacent field select a role at this end of the socket Parallel Port Options Parallels Workstation allows up to three parallel ports to be connected to a virtual machine Configuration Editor Resource Description Parallel Port Options ds Options Windows XP l Be Shared Folders 0 folders 0 enabled poco Video 0 items 0 enabled Enabled ii Memory 256 MB H Floppy A Connect at startup E Hard Disk 1 a000 MB C Documents amp LD DVvD ROM 1 DAWin P_SP2 iso 4 Network Adapt Bridged Ethernet Ed r i s
43. for Full Screen Mode If you receive a poor picture or incorrect system behavior when switching a guest operating system to full screen mode this can be fixed by configuring your primary OS settings Windows primary OS When guest OS is running in full screen mode physical display is switched to guest OS resolution with the highest possible frequency If your physical video card or physical monitor do not support the resolution or frequency requested by the guest OS substitute video mode that matches best is set instead In some cases substitute mode may not work or you are warned of an inability to switch to full screen mode To fix the situation correct primary OS display settings 1 Open Display Properties window by selecting in Windows Start menu the Settings Control Panel Display Make sure that the Hide modes that this monitor cannot display option is selected in the Setting tab If not select it and apply the settings 2 Ifthe option in the previous item is selected but problem remains make sure that the proper monitor and video card drivers are installed in the primary system Reinstall them in case of necessity Linux primary OS When a guest OS is running in full screen mode the physical display is switched to guest OS resolution with the highest possible frequency If X Window System is not configured for the mode requested by the guest OS any available mode that matches best will be used instead The situation is worse
44. guest Linux OS press Ct r1 Shift Backspace The primary Linux OS will not intercept this combination while the guest Linux OS will interpret it as Ctr1 Alt Backspace The table below shows how to transform a hotkey combination to use it in the Linux guest OS Desired Hotkey Combination to Press Ctrl Alt Backspace CLtrltSntrfrttBagcksSpace combinations starting Ctrl Alt F1 Ctrl Shift F1 through throudg COUEDPATIDTEILZ ObrldTODn3TLeBl12 CrprlSTAlItT T o0rCtrltAlILTT Ctrl Shiftt lt gt orCtrl4 Shitt lt gt CHAPTER 9 Running a Virtual Machine in Fullscreen Mode You can run a guest operating system in full screen mode with the guest OS window occupying the whole screen of your computer In full screen mode the primary OS and its applications as well as the Parallels Workstation menu toolbar and status bar are not visible To switch to full screen while running a guest OS do one of the following Click Fullscreen Mode toolbar button Select View gt Fullscreen in the menu Press the hot key combination Alt Enter by default unless you defined another one To return to window mode press any of the hot key combinations defined Ct r1 Al1t or Alt Enter by default Hot key combinations are defined on the Hot Key Combinations tab of the Preferences available from the Edit menu You may adjust resolution of the monitor for full screen mode See Setting Parallels Workstation Preferences page 169
45. if the physical monitor does not support the requested mode while it is configured in X Window System Parallels Workstation can not know that the monitor does not support the requested mode and will try to switch to it This may lead to poor picture quality in full screen mode If display picture in full screen mode is unusable 1 Stop the guest OS 2 Reconfigure X Window System to exclude resolution frequency inconsistent with your monitor and restart X Window Troubleshooting and Limitations 219 Third Party Virtual Machines and Parallels Network Adapter If you have installed on your computer any virtual machine software from other vendors along wiht Parallels Workstation there may be problems with a network adapter in a third party virtual machine Third party virtual software may try to use Parallels virtual network adapter Parallels Host Guest Virtual NIC as a real network interface and connect a third party VM s network adapter to it This problem is more probable if the third party virtual machine is configured to choose a network adapter automatically The problem occurs because Parallels Workstation adds Parallels Host Guest Virtual NIC network adapter to the list of network adapters in the primary operating system during the installation process This adapter is required for host only network page 165 If such problem occurs you will receive an error message when trying to access the Internet from the third party virtu
46. installed Parallels Workstation Click Finish to complete setup Back Cancel If you want to view the Readme file select the want to view Readme file option To complete the installation click Finish 26 Error No text of specified style in document Starting Parallels Workstation To start Parallels Workstation in Windows From the Windows Start menu choose Programs gt Parallels Folder Name gt Parallels Workstation where Parallels Folder Name is the folder in the Windows Start menu that you specified for Parallels Workstation during the installation You can also start Parallels Workstation by double clicking its icon on the desktop or by clicking its icon in the Quick Launch panel if you have added these shortcuts during the installation When you start Parallels Workstation for the first time you will be prompted to decide whether you d like to perform regular automatic checks for updates or not See Auto Updating Parallels Workstation in Windows page 34 for more information about the auto update feature Activating Parallels Workstation in Windows If you didn t enter the activation key during the installation or if your trial activation key has expired perform the following actions From the Help menu in the Parallels Workstation window choose Activate Product 2 In the Activate Product window type your activation key in the Activation key field and click Activate You may also specify y
47. network the guest network adapter should be set to host only networking IP addresses for the primary operating system and virtual machines may be dynamic assigned by Parallels DHCP server running on host only network static assigned manually Configuring Network with Dynamic IP addresses IP addresses for machines in a host only network are provided by Parallels DHCP server that 1s started automatically when you launch Parallels Workstation The DHCP server is installed along with Parallels Workstation Configure network with dynamic IP addresses in the following way 1 Open Configuration Editor for the virtual machine and on the Network Adapter Options on page 131 tab select the Host only networking option 2 Choose Preferences from the Edit menu Specify a range of IP addresses to be assigned to the virtual machines on the Network page 172 tab Configuring Network with Static IP addresses To configure host only network with static IP addresses you have to manually assign addresses to the primary operating system and to each virtual machine The virtual machine should be configured as follows 1 Open the Configuration Editor for the virtual machine and on the Network Adapter Options on page 131 tab select the Host only networking option 2 Start the virtual machine and specify the IP address by standard means of the guest operating system 166 Error No text of specified style in document Configuring a stat
48. of the following operating systems Microsoft Windows Operating Systems Windows Vista Ultimate Enterprise Business Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition SPO SPI Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition SPO SPI Windows Server 2003 Web Edition SPO SPI Windows XP Professional SP2 Windows XP Home SP2 Windows 2000 Professional Edition SP4 Windows 2000 Server SP4 You should have Internet Explorer version 5 0 or higher installed on your computer Linux Operating Systems Fedora Core Linux 4 stock 2 6 11 1 1369 FC4 Fedora Core Linux 3 5 6 7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS4 stock 2 6 9 5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS4 stock 2 6 9 5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES4 stock 2 6 9 5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Red Hat Linux 9 stock 2 4 20 8 Debian Linux 3 1 stock 2 6 8 2 386 SUSE Linux 10 0 stock 2 6 13 15 SUSE Linux 9 3 2 6 11 4 20a SUSE Linux 9 2 stock 2 6 8 24 11 SUSE Linux 9 1 stock 2 6 4 52 SUSE Linux 9 0 stock 2 4 21 69 Mandriva Linux 10 stock 2 6 3 7 Mandriva Linux 9 2 2007 Ubuntu Linux 5 0 4 6 06 7 04 7 10 Xandros Linux 4 0 CentOS 2 3 4 5 In Linux operating systems make sure the following software packages are installed Sources of currently installed kernel af you didn t install the kernel manually then install kernel sources package from your distribution cbe OLIB gcc gcc ld binutils included in any development package X Window System including 20 Error No text of specified style in document
49. option is selected Add Hardware Wizard Select printer Which physical printer should be connected to the virtual Parallel Fort Please select a physical printer which should be connected to this Parallel Port Specify if the virtual machine should assume the Parallel Port connected at power an Connect Parallel Port at startup 5 Click Finish Adding a USB Controller A virtual machine can have only one USB controller If you removed it for any reason you can add it back to the configuration To add a USB controller to the virtual machine 1 InConfiguration Editor click Add to launch Add Hardware Wizard Configuring a Virtual Machine 163 2 In the Select hardware dialog box select USB Controller in the Available Hardware list and click Next Add Hardware Wizard 5 elect hardware What type of hardware do vou want to install Please use the list of available hardware to select a type of hardware you want to install ou can add either configured or Available Hardware non configured device To add E Hard Disk configured device click Nest button amp Co DVO ROM Si a disc is en ij configuration dialogs Utherwise clic Floppy Add device instantly button After that vau will be able ta configure device sound ill be abl figure devi Serial Fort manually Parallel Port 3f LISB Controller Add device instantly 3 In the Specify USB options dialog box specify if you want USB dev
50. output file Where the output fle of the Serial Port is located Please specify a location where the output file of a Serial Port should be placed Specify if the virtual machine should assume the Serial Port connected at power an Connect Serial Port at startup 158 Error No text of specified style in document If you selected the Use a named pipe option you should specify the name of the pipe for the serial port to be connected to and select the role for the virtual machine If you want the serial port to be connected to the virtual machine upon startup make sure that the Connect Serial Port at startup option is selected Add Hardware Wizard Specify named pipe Please specify the parameters of the named pipe Please specify a name of the pipe which the Serial Port should connect to Select a role at this virtual machine side Server ha Specify if the virtual machine should assume the Serial Part connected at power an Connect Serial Port at startup Cancel 5 Click Finish Adding a Parallel Port Using Add Hardware Wizard you can add up to three parallel ports to your virtual machine You can use an output file a socket or a printer for the parallel port emulation For details about parallel port options see the Parallel Port Options topic on page 134 This topic describes how to add a parallel port in Parallels Workstation for Windows To add a new parallel port 1 In Configurat
51. page 34 or Auto Updating Parallels Workstation in Linux page 39 VM shutdown behaviour Choose the action to be performed by default when you close the application by choosing the Exit command from the File menu or by clicking the Windows close button E43 Suspend VM to suspend all running virtual machines Power Off to stop all running virtual machines Ask me what to do to be prompted to choose what to do with the running virtual machines See the Suspending Resuming Virtual Machine page 95 topic to learn about suspending and resuming virtual machines Memory Preferences Preferences Common Memory Network User Interface Hot keys Common Memory Options Reserved memor limit Bg J J6 ogo MB Reserved memory limit defines a masimum AAM size l e a size of part of hast physical memory which system should be able to reserve for managing all running virtual machines IMPORTANT When changed this parameter has an effect for all instances of Parallels Workstation which may run en this computer 172 Error No text of specified style in document On the Memory tab you can select the maximum amount of physical memory RAM the system reserves for all simultaneously running virtual machines on your computer This value affects all virtual machines running on your computer The maximum memory depends on physical RAM your computer has Some memory must be reserved for the primary operating system
52. resolution from the section in the View menu that contains the list of available resolutions Or Right click the anywhere in the Windows desktop and from the context menu select Properties gt Settings On the Settings tab you will see all the resolutions for which the Enabled option is selected Select the required one In Linux Guest OSes To run a Linux virtual machine with a non standard resolution do the following 1 Make sure gt f is installed in your guest system 2 Inthe Terminal generate xorg conf modeline by executing gtf lt width gt lt height gt lt refresh gt Note Do not set the Refresh value more than 60 168 Error No text of specified style in document Paste output of gt f to the Monitor section of xorg conf Insert mode name at the beginning of the modes list The list is located in the Display subsection of the Screen section and begins with the Modes keyword Note Make sure that the Deptn property of the Display subsection equals to the value of DefaultDepth defined in the Screen section 5 Restart X Server CHAPTER 12 Managing Virtual Machines This chapter provides the information on setting user preferences that affect the virtual machines of a particular user or all virtual machines on the computer The chapter also describes how to clone and delete virtual machines In This Chapter setting Parallels Workstation Preferences ee Eee tete reno ee hu eo pe a einen 169 Chn
53. spin buttons or type a value directly into the field You can choose any value from 4 to 1500 MB The memory amount must be specified in multiples of 4 MB Click Next New Virtual Machine Wizard Specify memory size Haw much menor should use this virtual machine Please specify how much memory HM should be allocated For this virtual machine 1500 MB Recommended HAM masimum size is 709 MB 5 In the Select action type window choose whether you want to create a new virtual hard disk use an existing one or not to add any disk at all Click Next If you selected to use an existing hard disk image proceed to the Step 8 68 Error No text of specified style in document If you decided not to add any disk at all proceed to Step 9 New Virtual Machine Wizard Select action type What type of the hard disk do vau want to use Please specify what kind of hard disk you want to install to the virtual machine If vau do nat want to add a hard disk now select Do not add hard disk option ou Will be able to add it later using Configuration Editor C3 Use an existing hard disk image C3 Do nat add hard disk 6 If you selected to create a new virtual disk specify its size and format For information on disk formats refer to the Hard Disk Images page 16 topic Click Next New Virtual Machine Wizard Specify hard disk options Specify hard disk size and format Please specify a preferred virtual disk size S
54. the Device URI for Printer Name window specify the path to network printer in the following format smb computer name printer name In the Model Driver for Printer Name window select the model of your printer 10 CUPS performs installation If installation is successful the Printer lt name gt has been added successfully message is displayed In Windows Guest Operating System To add a network printer in a Windows guest OS Start the Windows guest operating system and log in From the Windows Start menu choose Settings and then the Printers and Faxes or simply Printers item Open the Add Printer Wizard In Windows 95 98 NT ME 2000 2003 double click the Add printer icon In Windows XP click the Add a printer link In the Add Printer Wizard In Windows 2000 XP 2003 click Next in the window of the wizard in the Local or Network Printer window click A network printer or a printer attached to another computer In Windows 98 ME click Next in the window of the wizard For the following question How is this printer attached to your computer Click the Network printer option In Windows 95 NT click Network printer server Continue the network printer installation as usually Running a Virtual Machine 117 Setting Up Printing via LPT Port of Real Computer To set up printing through a parallel port of your physical computer Make sure that a printer is connected to an LPT port
55. to install Parallels Workstation in Linux or Windows operating systems In This Chapter SV SUC ISequite BIET Sos doen ndeteos a cde ooh uda nent uet our Dine Este a 18 Installing Parallels Workstation in WIndOWS c ccccccccccesseeeeeceeecceaaeeeeeeceseeeaaaeeseeeeeeeeaas 20 Installing Parallels Workstation in Linux us cen tret eta die rto eee aene tu Po n HE Te ene te Pa pre nare rage 21 System Requirements Before installing Parallels Workstation please make sure that the computer where you want to install and run it meets the hardware and software requirements provided in this chapter Hardware Requirements Parallels Workstation hardware requirements are listed in the following table Processor 700 MHz 32 bit or 64 bit processor with IA 32 compatibility Intel Pentium or AMD Athlon 1 5 GHz or faster is recommended Note To run Parallels Workstation on 64 bit platform you must have a 32 bit primary OS installed System Memory 768 MB of RAM minimum 2 GB recommended for Windows Vista guest OS GB recommended for all other guest OSes Free Hard Disk Space 25 MB required for Parallels Workstation package 10 GB or more is recommended for each virtual machine Video Card 8 bit SVGA display adapter 16 bit color depth or higher is recommended Optical Drive CD ROM and or DVD ROM drive Installing Parallels Workstation 19 Software Requirements Parallels Workstation can be successfully installed on any
56. v The operation has been successfully completed See below for the list of possible post processing actions if Post processing actions Ho additional actions are required Chek Exit to close the Image T ool To learn how to connect an iso image to the CD DVD ROM drive of the virtual machine see the CD DVD ROM Options page 129 topic CHAPTER 14 Troubleshooting and Limitations In This Chapter Getting Technical SUDDOFLU ss iode ROUTERS GR HM EH De hM EMT te AE 213 Reportine a Problem to Parallels Tean 22 ics ouo eye E E E 214 Problems with Networking Inside a Virtual Machine cccccccccsessseseeeceeeeeeeeeeeseeeeeeeeenes 216 Installing Ubuntu Linux 6 0 0 SetVeE aiio eet aeuo qute re aee bats dedo et ot A ev Tode usu peer adde dae eina 216 Problem with Connecting USB Devices in Linux Primary OS eeeeeeeee 217 Contieunns Display for Full Screen Mode 2 5 x oe desi etn des bie wilted PL UR EUR EEI 218 Third Party Virtual Machines and Parallels Network Adapter sssssessss 219 Problem Tt POE 0 odes cote E cease ed a itai Deen Vm ert enter oh bera in usados 219 SOIC E KevVbOarc PrODIEIU vassescarenusctasaactwedbonwaiaskGaasancavonstatisaantwedyaaedayannnnentammteteceacuntdysawsaseee 220 Imane Swap File ProD su iiec tiene bcese aie vesti ao abate eo Dame bte pti eed ooa tau tu eese pe itas eant 220 Getting Technical Support If you have problems using Parallels Workst
57. when the virtual machine starts up Add Hardware Wizard Select a physical device Which physical dive should be connected to the floppy disk Please select a physical Floppy drive which should be conmected to the virtual machine Specify if the virtual machine should assume the Floppy disk inserted at power ar Connect Floppy at startup 150 Error No text of specified style in document 5 If you selected the Use an existing image of a floppy disk option click the button to locate the image to be connected to the drive and specify if you want to have this drive connected when the virtual machine starts up Add Hardware Wizard Select an image file Where the floppy disk image file you want to use rs located Please specify a location where the floppy image file you want to use is stored m Specify if the virtual machine should assume the Floppy disk inserted at power ar Connect Floppy at startup If you selected the Create a blank image of a floppy disk option specify the location for the floppy disk image file You can choose a folder different from the default one using the button Add Hardware Wizard Select an image file Where the floppy disk image file should be stored Please specify a location where do you want the floppy image file to be created Specify if the virtual machine should assume the Floppy disk inserted at power ar Connect Floppy at startup Configuring a Virtual Machin
58. xf86vidmode extension for full screen mode only XKB extension for keyboard national layouts and 1eds support Qt 3 0 5 library multithreaded qt3 PAE Support The current version of Parallels Workstation supports up to 4 GB PAE Physical Address Extension If your processor supports more than 4 GB PAE In Windows primary OS on the first startup of a virtual machine you will be prompted to create a new configuration with 4 GB PAE in boot ini In Linux primary OS kernel PAE settings should be changed manually See Troubleshooting page 91 in Starting a Virtual Machine topic Installing Parallels Workstation in Windows This section contains complete information on installing Parallels Workstation on any of the supported Windows OSes Parallels Workstation for Windows Step by Step Installation Preparing for installation If you purchased a boxed version of Parallels Workstation Insert Parallels Workstation CD into the optical drive of your computer and keep the CD sleeve with the activation key on it handy If you purchased the program from Parallels Online store http www parallels com en buyonline or downloaded a trial version make sure that you have a permanent or trial activation key and Locate the Parallels Wst 2 2 xxxx Win exe file and open it Step by Step Installation Note You must have Administrator rights to install Parallels Workstation in a Windows operating system 1 Inthe I
59. 178 Error No text of specified style in document Cloning a Virtual Machine A copy of a virtual machine can be created using the Clone Virtual Machine Wizard All files of the virtual machine are copied except the media files used by its CD DVD ROM drives and by a floppy disk drive By default the Wizard places all the files of the cloned virtual machine into a new folder but you may choose to save them in another location The devices of the cloned virtual machine such as CD DVD ROM and floppy disk drives are connected to the same drives or image files as the devices in the original machine However if the original virtual machine uses output files for serial parallel ports in the cloned VM they are replaced by new files If the original VM has a network adapter in its configuration the cloned VM will have a new MAC address generated for its new adapter A virtual machine can be cloned if the following conditions are met The guest OS is not running If it is running the menu command is disabled The virtual machine is not opened by another instance of Parallels Workstation The virtual machine is not blank Blank virtual machines can not be copied To clone a virtual machine 1 Open the virtual machine you want to clone 2 Select Clone VM from the VM menu The Clone VM Wizard starts Click Next Clone Virtual Machine Wizard Welcome to the Clone Virtual Machine Wizard This wizard allows you to create an absolutely
60. 2 and eComStation 85 supported versions 13 Overview Parallels Image Tool overview 187 Parallels Tools overview 77 Virtual Machine technology overview 10 P PAE 19 9 Parallel ports parallel port 102 parallel port options 134 Parallels Image Tool 187 Parallels Tools Parallels Tools Center 104 Parallels Tools overview 77 updating Parallels Tools 86 Parallels Workstation activating in Linux 29 activating in Windows 26 installing in Linux 27 installing in Windows 20 starting in Linux 29 starting in Windows 26 uninstalling in Linux 32 uninstalling in Windows 27 updating 33 Parallels Workstation preferences Booting Options 120 CD DVD ROM Options 129 floppy options 125 General options 119 hard disk options 126 memory options 124 network adapter options 131 parallel port options 134 serial port options 133 sound options 136 USB Options 138 video screen resolutions 123 Pausing virtual machines 95 Pipe 133 224 Index Plain disks 16 Preferences for Parallels Workstation 169 Primary operating system supported Linux 19 supported Windows 19 Printer connecting to virtual machine 115 Process priorities in Windows primary OS 121 Processor emulated in Virtual Machine 12 required on host computer 18 PVS 15 R RAM in virtual machine 124 limit for all the virtual machines 171 RAM options 124 Reducing di
61. 65 170 pausing 95 resetting 94 running 89 shutting down 94 starting 91 virtual machine opening 91 Virtual Machine technology overview 10 VT x 11 W Window mode of the guest OS screen 96 Windows changing resolution 166 installing Parallels Tools in 79 setting up a network printer in 115 supported versions 13 uninstalling Parallels Tools 87 Windows 98 sound driver installation 80 Windows NT Tools installation in 81 Wizard Index 225 Add new hardware 139 Clone virtual machine 178 Delete virtual machine 181 New virtual machine 59 X Window System in FreeBSD 75 218
62. 72 supported guest OSes 13 H Hard disk drive 15 16 Hard disk image compacting 110 113 converting expanding hard disk image into plain 199 converting plain hard disk image into expanding 197 creating an image of a real hard disk 189 creating new empty hard disk image 126 139 defragmenting an expanding hard disk image e 201 expanding hard disk image 16 file type and format of a hard disk image 16 hard disk in virtual machine 126 increasing a hard disk image 196 plain hard disk image 16 Host computer hardware requirements 18 software requirements 19 Host only networking 165 Hot keys 97 176 IDE devices in virtual machine CD DVD ROM 129 Hard Disk 126 Image of hard disk creating 189 Image Tool 187 Increasing virtual disks 196 Installing AC 97 sound driver Windows 98 80 AC 97 sound driver Windows NT 81 clipboard Synchronization tool OS 2 and eComStation 85 guest operating system installation 72 mouse syncronization tool OS 2 and eComStation 85 network driver eComStation 85 network driver Solaris 83 Parallels Workstation in Linux 27 sound driver OS 2 and eComStation 85 video driver Windows NT 81 Intel Virtualization Technology support 11 Interface basics 45 Internet access 165 Introduction 7 IP address 165 172 ISO 15 17 K Key combinations 176 Keyboard capturing e 93 releasing 93 shortcuts 97 L
63. Image VOOM ts eii oed eei cdaviant acetal tede Vete e eimi cde pointe tede r bete deas 188 Creatine an Imape of a Real Hard DISK uei o eae ata teo pu ee Dea asia tases 189 Modthyine an Existine Hard Disk TMAS E 2 ic eao o ERU Ye ETA 193 Creatine linia ces OF Floppy DISKS ox cocssasudcnsnsessaseaarsacheasasdeaedindeedasaslenceussenons pede ebd s qub SUD oue Rad ugs 203 Cicaune Images OF CD DVD DISCS Sici brote aieo E a 208 Overview Parallels Image Tool allows you to create an image of a real hard disk modify existing images of virtual hard disks create ISO images of real CD and DVD discs create images of real floppies With Image Tool you can perform the following modifying operations on hard disk images Increase the disk size of a hard disk image Both expanding and plain disks can be enlarged Note The disk size can not be reduced Convert a plain hard disk image to an image in expanding format Convert an expanding hard disk image to an image in plain format Defragment an expanding hard disk image Designed as a wizard Parallels Image Tool guides you through the steps necessary to create or modify the 1mage Furthermore the wizard keeps all your previously selected options between sessions in case you perform the same operation regularly Note If in Linux primary OS some Image Tool options are disabled that means that you do not possess the proper system privileges 188 Error No text of specified s
64. Parallels Software International Inc Parallels Workstation User Guide Copyright 2005 2008 Parallels Software International Inc Copyright 2005 2008 by Parallels Software International Inc All rights reserved Parallels Parallels logo Compressor and Transporter are registered trademarks Coherence is a trademark of Parallels Software International Inc This product is based on a technology that is the subject matter of a number of pending patent applications Distribution of this work or derivative of this work in any form is prohibited unless prior written permission is obtained from the copyright holder Microsoft Windows Windows Server Windows NT Windows Vista and MS DOS are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds Apple Bonjour Mac MacBook iMac Macintosh and Mac OS are registered trademarks of Apple Inc Finder and Safari are trademarks of Apple Inc Solaris is a trademark of Sun Microsystems Inc eComsStation is a trademark of Serenity Systems International FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation Intel and Intel Core are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intal Corporation OS 2 Warp is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation VMware is a registered trademark of VMware Inc All other marks and names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective owners Contents Introductio
65. Parallels technical support group Buy Online and Evaluate buttons present at the bottom of the window if you did not activate your copy of the product or if you used a trial activation key See Activating Parallels Workstation in Windows page 26 or Activating Parallels Workstation in Linux page 29 for the details More Info button opens the window with more detailed license information and a list of special features used by the virtual machine More Information Application Details License Status This i an active copy of Parallels Workstation 2 24 User Mame Mame Company Name Mame of the company Product ID DOOO0 OO000000 0000 Validity period Mat limited Primary LI 5 es Windows Linus Terminal Services Windows Linus Virtual Machine Features Virtualization made Software made 2 Remote client session off Citrix support off License Status User Name and Company Name fields contain the information that you entered in the Activate Product window Product ID displays the identification number of your copy of Parallels Workstation Validity period shows the period during which your license is valid Primary OSes lists the primary operating systems for which you can use the product according to the license Terminal Services lists the primary operating systems allowed to access Parallels Workstation remotely Note The same license information is displayed in the Activate Product window
66. Tools in Windows Guest OS In all Windows guest operating systems you can uninstall Parallels Tools by using the general program removing procedure For example in Windows XP Professional 1 Click Start gt Control Panel gt Add Remove Program or Start gt Settings Add Remove Programs depending on the selected appearance of the guest OS Select Parallels Tools from the list of programs installed Click Remove 88 Error No text of specified style in document Uninstalling Parallels Tools in Linux Guest OS To uninstall Parallels Tools 1 2 sh 8 Start the virtual machine Press Control Option Alt to release the keyboard and mouse input to your primary OS Locate the ISO image file vntools linux iso of Parallels Tools Connect the image to the CD ROM drive by clicking the CD DVD ROM icon on the status bar and selecting Connect Image from the shortcut menu Click anywhere in the guest OS window to capture the keyboard and mouse input in the guest OS Start the terminal Mount the CD ROM to the guest OS file system Change the directory to the CD ROM and run the uninstaller by the following command prli tools uninstall sh Note You must have root privileges to run the command Restart X Server or the virtual machine CHAPTER 8 Running a Virtual Machine This chapter explains how to start stop suspend or pause a virtual machine It also provides the information on actions you c
67. achine in the Recently Used Virtual Machines list You will see the name and the path to the configuration file in the VM Path field 2 Click Open 48 Error No text of specified style in document When you start Parallels Workstation for the first time the list of the recently used virtual machines is empty Browsing Hard Disk for a Virtual Machine To open an existing virtual machine that is not in the Recently Used list 1 Click the Browse button to locate the desired configuration file 2 Click the Open button Creating a New Virtual Machine 1 Click the New VM button 2 Follow the wizard as described in the New Virtual Machine Wizard topic page 59 Alternatively 1 Close the Startup Options dialog box by clicking the Cancel button 2 A blank virtual machine will be open and you may create a new virtual machine from scratch using Configuration Editor Configuring Parallels Workstation Startup Options Select the Load recently used VM at startup option if you want the last used virtual machine to be loaded and opened on Parallels Workstation startup Select the Show startup dialog option if you want this dialog to appear when Parallels Workstation is started The same options are also present on the Common tab of Preferences window Whenever you change these options in one of these windows they are automatically changed in the second one For more details please refer to the Common Preferences topic page 170
68. ailable for different guest operating systems OS 2 eCS Linux 95 98 NT ME XP 2003 Creating a Virtual Machine 79 Clipboard Synchronization Tool Time Synchronization Tool veom ho dbo j o Mouse Driver t Sew fs e fs Network Drivers Ff fe Parallels Network Adapter Driver CS ES e CE Installing Parallels Tools in Windows Guest OS To install Parallels Tools in Windows guest OS do the following 1 Make sure that the virtual machine configuration includes a CD DVD ROM drive and it is enabled Start your guest operating system and log in Select Install Parallel Tools from the Parallels Workstation VM menu The Welcome window of Parallels Tools Setup appears Click Next oF N In the Choose Destination Location window click Next to install Tools to the default folder To select another folder use the Change button Then click Next 6 Choose between the complete setup and a custom one in the Setup Type window The complete setup installs all of the tools available for your guest OS If you select custom setup the Select Components window prompts you to select the desired tools from the list of tools available for your guest OS Choose the program folder in the Select Program Folder window In the Check Setup Information window review the selected options If they are correct click Next to start the installation 9 By default a Windows operating system is
69. al machine To solve the problem Open this virtual machine configuration and select one of physical network adapters Problem with Printing If you have a physical printer connected to an LPT port of your computer but can not print from the primary operating system and or several virtual machines please make sure the printer 1s properly connected and configured If nevertheless you cannot print this may be caused by the following reason the running virtual machine s parallel port is connected to a real LPT port which becomes blocked and cannot be accessed by the primary operating system and other virtual machines To solve the problem find a virtual machine from which you can print disconnect its parallel port connected to the real LPT port See Connecting Serial Parallel Port page 102 Documents that were sent for printing in the primary OS or other virtual machines while the printer was unavailable were spooled and will be printed in the same order they were sent to the printer If you run several virtual machines connected to the printer through the same physical LPT port you may be required to consequently disconnect their parallel ports to print all the documents 220 Error No text of specified style in document SoftICE Keyboard Problem If you run Parallels Workstation simultaneously with Compuware SoftICE debugger from Compuware Driver Studio keyboard problems may arise Problems usually occur when you sta
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71. an also choose between connecting an existing hard disk image and creating a new one Note In Linux primary OS to connect any virtual device to a real one you must have root privileges Otherwise the real device will not appear in the list of available devices even if it is installed on your computer You can add new devices to the virtual machine using Add Hardware Wizard To add a new device to the virtual machine 1 Open the virtual machine then open Configuration Editor by choosing Edit Configuration from the File menu or clicking in the lower part of the Property Page 2 Click the Add button under the Resources list in the left pane of the Configuration Editor window 140 Error No text of specified style in document 3 The Welcome window of the Add Hardware Wizard appears To skip the Welcome window next time you run the wizard select the Skip introduction next time option Click Next Add Hardware Wizard Welcome to the Add Hardware Wizard This wizard will quide you through the steps of Installing and configuring new hardware to your virtual machine Please click Next button to proceed Click Cancel to exit the wizard 4 In the Select hardware dialog box choose the device you want to add to your virtual machine The Available Hardware list contains the devices available for adding Click the Add device instantly button to add the device without configuring it The new device is added immediately with the defau
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73. ardware Wizard 142 Error No text of specified style in document 2 In the Select hardware dialog box select Hard Disk in the Available Hardware list and click Next Add Hardware Wizard 5 elect hardware What type of hardware do vou want to install Please use the list of available hardware to select a type of hardware you want to install E eS ou can add either configured or i non configured device To add A Hard Disk configured device click Next button CD DvD R M and go through the set of tt configuration dialogs Otherwise click ee Add device instantly button After that C Parallel Fort vau will be able ta configure device manually Add device instantly 3 The Select action type dialog box appears If you want to create a new virtual hard disk select the Create a new virtual hard disk option If you want to use an existing hard disk image select the Use an existing hard disk image option Configuring a Virtual Machine 143 Click Next Add Hardware Wizard Select action type What type of the hard disk do vau want to use Please specify what kind of hard disk you want to install C3 Use an existing hard disk image 4 If you selected the Use an existing hard disk image option in the previous step proceed to the next step If you selected the Create a new virtual hard disk option in the Specify hard disk options dialog box specify the size and the format for the new virtual disk For more
74. ase their input to the primary OS To capture the keyboard and mouse input in the virtual machine window do one of the following Click anywhere in the guest OS window When the mouse input is captured the cursor can not be moved out of the Parallels Workstation window Select Capture Input in the VM menu Press Ctrl I on your keyboard To release the keyboard and mouse input to your primary OS Press the hot key combination designated for releasing your keyboard and mouse the default combination is Ctr1 Al1t The default hot key combination for releasing the keyboard and mouse can be changed on the Hot Key Combinations page 176 tab of the Preferences window After Parallels Tools Installation Parallels Tools are available for most of the Windows and Linux guest operating systems See the Parallels Tools Overview page 77 to learn if this package is available for the specific guest operating system After Parallels Tools installation you can switch the control over mouse and keyboard input more easily to capture click anywhere in the Guest OS window to release click anywhere outside the Guest OS window 94 Error No text of specified style in document Shutting Down and Resetting Virtual Machine To turn off reset a virtual machine use the same rules as to turn off reset a physical computer Stopping a Virtual Machine First shut down the guest operating system by using the guest OS shut d
75. at following updates are available Update name Size Parallels Workstation 2 2 For Windows build 2080 12510 Kb Yours sincerely Parallels T eam Please select updates you want to install by checking corresponding rows in the table Click Download button ta proceed Make sure that the latest version is selected and click Download 7 Wait while the wizard completes downloading Select the Install update option then the update installation will start automatically Parallels Update Wizard EB Download is complete Wizard has successfully downloaded the selected updates If you want to see the downloaded files select Open updates folder button IF you want to install updates check the Install updates option and click Finish button Open updates folder 38 Error No text of specified style in document Before installing make sure you closed all Parallels Workstation instances and click the Finish button The Update Wizard launches the installation of the update Setup program prompts you to confirm the replacing of the current version by the later one Parallels Workstation You have Parallels Workstation build 2055 installed on your computer Do you want to update with Parallels Workstation build 2080 Click Yes When the installation is complete click Yes to restart the computer Updating Parallels Workstation in Linux Update procedure in Linux primary OS consists of the following steps
76. atch all data on the virtual disk will be last IF you need to increase size of the virtual disk in non destructive way use Parallels Image Tool utility Recreate Remove Device status To temporarily disable operations with this hard drive without deleting it from configuration clear the Enabled check box Emulation Image File field defines the image file that is used as a virtual hard disk To replace the virtual hard disk choose another image file with the hdd extension in the field Recreate button Click the button to delete the old virtual disk and create a new blank one To replace the current hard disk with a new blank one 1 Click the Recreate button Configuring a Virtual Machine 127 2 The Create HDD window appears Select the Expanding disk option if you want the hard disk to be expanding Clear the check box to create a disk in plain format Create HDD Disk size Mby BEER Expanding disk 3 Click Create 4 When prompted click Yes to confirm that you are going to create a new disk instead of the old one A new empty disk is now connected to your virtual machine Note If when using a hard disk you discover that it is too small you may increase the disk capacity using the Parallels Image Tool page 187 Hard Disk Advanced Options Configuration Editor Resource Description Hard Disk Options amp dvanced n Options Windows sP G Shared Folders D folders 0 ena
77. ateway IP address when you are asked for them 6 Restart the guest operating system by issuing the command init 6 To install RTL8029 network driver manually 1 Inthe shell issue the following command to get root privileges su Enter the password to the root account when you are asked for it 2 Asa root run the following commands cd tmp gzcat cdrom PRLTOOLS Drivers Network RTL8029 SOLARIS ni0 8 11 tgz tar xf cd ni 0 8 11 usr ccs bin make install addni sh 3 If IP addresses on your network are managed by the DHCP server issue the following commands touch etc hostname niO touch etc dhcp niO If the IP addresses on your network are NOT managed by the DHCP server see the Solaris System Administration Guide 4 Leavethe root account by entering the command exit 5 Restart the guest operating system by issuing the command init 6 Creating a Virtual Machine 85 Installing OS 2 and eComStation Tools All of the OS 2 and eComStation tools can be installed from the vmtools iso CD image Network drivers can also be installed from the floppy disk image file vmtools fdd during operating system installation The latter 1s easier in most cases Before starting the installation you should connect the CD ROM image with Parallels Tools to your virtual machine s CD ROM drive Do the following Select Install Parallels Tools in the Parallels Workstation VM menu Mouse Synchronization Tool Installation The Mouse Sync
78. ation please first view Parallels Workstation FAQs http www parallels com products workstation faq Our friendly technical support team is ready to help Describe your problem and submit a FREE request to Parallels Support Team www parallels com en support To discuss your problem online visit Parallels Forums http forums parallels com Telephone support is available on a per incident fee basis Please visit the support team s page of the Parallels web site for details 214 Error No text of specified style in document Reporting a Problem to Parallels Team To help improve the quality of Parallels Workstation you may send problem reports to Parallels Software International Inc In the case of a fatal error inside a virtual machine Parallels Workstation automatically opens the Report a Problem window prompting the user to send a report You may also send a report on your own if you notice incorrect virtual machine behavior Automatically Generated Reports When a fatal error occurs in a virtual machine Parallels Workstation automatically generates a virtual machine status report and attaches a console screen shot to it After that the Report a Problem window opens and you can fill out the form and send the report to Parallels Software International Inc The Report a Problem window contains the following elements Report a Problem Do you have problems with Parallels Workstation 2 2 Beta Please tell Parallels tea
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80. ble for this type of guest operating system Configuration Editor Resource Description Shared Folders Options i55 Options Windows XP Shared Folders 0 folders 0 enabled shared Folders Video 0 items 0 enabled Enable shared folders ES Hemon 256 MB 4 Floppy A Name Path E Hard Disk 1 a000 MB C Documents a amp LD DVvD RO D wa nsP SPzsa 3 Network Adap Bridged Ethernet Sound Default sound playback de o USB Controller Autoconnect On ok canei He Configuring a Virtual Machine 123 Enable shared folder option allows using shared folders in the virtual machine The list below displays all the shared folders created for this virtual machine The Name column shows name of the folder in the guest OS the Path column shows the same folder in the file system of your host computer Add button opens the Shared Folder Properties dialog box for creating a new shared folder See the Using Shared Folders page 184 section for detailed description of this process Delete button LJ removes the selected shared folder Edit button opens the Shared Folder Properties dialog box where you can change the shared folder properties See the Using Shared Folders section Video Screen Resolutions Configuration Editor Rezource Description Screen Resolutions Options cp Options Windows XP Ge Shared Folders folders 0 enabled screen Resolutions U items 0 enabled Enable cus
81. bled Device Geometry WB Video Mia Cylinders 16254 Splitted Of il Memory 256 MB H Floppy A Heads 16 E Hard Disk 1 annnm MB C Documents a amp LD DVvD RO D v w nsP SPzsa Network Adap Bridged Ethernet Disk format Expanding Sound Default sound playback de T USB Controller Autoconnect On Sectors B3 Attachment Options Connect to Optimization Actual size of disk image file is 2305 MB Use Compact button below to reduce size of the hard disk image file Remove 128 Error No text of specified style in document Device Geometry The Cylinders Heads and Sectors fields show the parameters of geometry of the virtual hard disk Note that the parameters in the Device Geometry area describe the virtual disk not a physical one where the virtual disk is stored Disk format field shows format of the virtual hard disk See the Format of The Virtual Disk page 16 Attachment Options Connect to field Displays the IDE channel to which the virtual hard disk 1s connected The startup disk must be connected to IDE 0 0 while a data disk may be connected to any other channel Note that if you set two startup drives at once hard disk IDE 0 0 and CD DVD ROM drive IDE 0 1 the guest OS will try to boot according to the booting sequence set on the Booting Options tab page 120 Optimization Compact button If the selected virtual disk is in expanding fo
82. click Register button in order to receive a free trial activation key by e mail Alternatively click Register On Site button if you prefer to register via our Web site Login Information E mail Personal Information User Name Company Mame want to receive news from Parallels to my e mail 4 Click the Register button to send this information to Parallels You will receive a free trial activation key by email Alternatively you may register on the Parallels web site Click the Register on site button To get a permanent activation key 1 Click Help in the menu and select Activate Product 2 In the Activate Product dialog box click the purchase a permanent activation key link to open the Parallels Online Store where you can purchase the key 32 Error No text of specified style in document Uninstalling Parallels Workstation in Linux Uninstalling Parallels Workstation does not delete any files that have been created using Parallels Workstation such as configuration files virtual hard disks CD disc iso images floppy dd images and serial or parallel port output files Note To uninstall Parallels Workstation in a Linux primary operating system you need root privileges To uninstall Parallels Workstation in Linux 1 If rpmis supported in your system enter the following command su c rpm e Parallels Enter the root password when prompted 2 lf debis supported in your system enter su c dpkg
83. cludes a CD DVD ROM drive and it is enabled See CD DVD ROM Options on page 129 Start your guest operating system Connect the CD image with tools vntools iso to the CD DVD ROM drive of the virtual machine right click the CD DVD ROM icon on the status bar and select the Connect image menu item instead you may select Devices CD DVD ROM number gt Connect Image in the Parallels Workstation menu browse for vmtools iso in the folder where you installed Parallels Workstation Proceed to installing the RTL8029 network driver using the network sh script or manually To install RTL8029 network driver using network sh script 1 In the shell run the 64 Error No text of specified style in document cd cdrom PRLTOOLS Drivers Network RTL8029 SOLARIS command to move to the respective directory 2 Issue the following command to start the driver installation network sh 3 You are sequentially informed that the driver is being extracted compiled and installed When it is finished you are asked Will you receive IP addresses from DHCP server If the IP addresses on your network are managed by the DHCP server proceed to step 4 otherwise proceed to step 5 4 Type Y and the script will configure the DHCP client Proceed to step 6 If the IP addresses on your network are NOT managed by the DHCP server type N and then specify an IP address for your virtual machine network address network mask and default g
84. currently connected hard disk image with the new one Note Some operating systems may fail to recognize newly added hard disks If such a problem occurs try to add the device using the guest operating system utilities Physical Computer Hardware Requirements An image of a real hard disk can be created in plain format only This means that the disk image will have the same size slightly greater as the real disk itself regardless of how much space on the real disk is actually used See the Format of The Virtual Disk page 16 in the Hard Disk Images topic for description of the plain format So to create an image of a real hard disk you must have another real hard disk to store the resulting image file and the size of the additional hard disk must be at least 5 larger than the size of the original source disk To Create an Image of a Real Hard Disk 1 Start Parallels Image Tool 190 Error No text of specified style in document 2 Inthe Welcome dialog box select the Skip Introduction next time option if you want to skip this dialog box next time you run the Image Tool Click Next F Parallels Image Tool Welcome to the Parallels Image Tool Use this tool to maintain your vitual data storage devices Parallels Image Tool wil help pou to create new or maintain existing images of data storage devices such as virtual hard disks CD DVD ROM images and floppy disk images Please chick Next bulton to proceed or click Cancel to eat
85. d Installing an Update Note To update Parallels Workstation on a Linux computer you need root privileges Updating From an RPM Package The update feature removes the version of Parallels Workstation currently installed on your computer and installs a new one To update Parallels Workstation perform the following operations 1 Launch the Terminal program 2 Runthe su command to gain root privileges for installation Enter password to the root account when prompted 3 Issue the following command to nstall the update rpm U parallelsupdate parallels 2 2 xxxx 1lin i1386 rpm If you are trying to install an earlier version you will get a warning For the guidelines on installing an earlier version see the topic below in this chapter 44 Error No text of specified style in document 4 After the installation completes run the post installation script Issue the following command parallels config 5 When prompted press Enter on the keyboard 6 Read the license agreement up to the end scroll it by pressing Spacebar on your keyboard To accept the agreement type Y and press Enter 7 The Parallels Workstation Setup program configures compiles and installs drivers 8 After the process is complete you can run the latest version of the Parallels Workstation 9 In the Terminal enter exit to leave the root account Installing an earlier version of Parallels Workstation We describe the procedure for the primar
86. d devices available on your real computer To mute the sound select loopback Note In Linux primary OS you must have root privileges to connect the real sound device to the virtual machine Otherwise the real sound device will not appear in the list of available devices even if it is installed on your computer Mixer Device field contains a list of available mixer devices If you don t want to use a mixer device but it is required by the guest OS es applications select Loopback 138 Error No text of specified style in document USB Options Resource Description USB Options 57 Options windows XP F Shared Folders folders 0 enabled Video 0 items 0 enabled Enabled ii Memory 256 MB 7 Floppy Ay Connection Options E Hard Disk 1 SU00 MB C Docurnerts l CD DVD ROM 1 D wiriXP SP2 iso v Autoconnect USB devices gi J Network Adapt Bridged Ethernet Sound Default sound playback d USB Controller Autoconnect On Device Status Remove Device status Enable option allows using USB devices in the virtual machine If the USB controller is enabled USB devices can be connected or disconnected to the virtual machine at runtime However if you want to temporarily disable USB operations clear the Enabled check box Note If you start the operating system with the USB disabled you cannot change this option when the virtual machine is running Connectio
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88. dged Ethernet Sound Default sound playback de 05 Type OS Version Windows AF vt Virtual Machine Name Configuration Editor window consists of two panes The left pane contains the Resources list Selecting the device in the list opens the device options tab in the right pane Clicking the Add button at the bottom of the left pane opens the Add Hardware Wizard and clicking the Remove button deletes the selected device or the option from the Resources list For more detailed information refer to the Adding New Devices to VM topic To save changes in the configuration you must exit the Configuration Editor and click the Save button at the lower part of the Property Page 94 Error No text of specified style in document Toolbar The toolbar is located to the right of the Parallels Workstation window and has the following buttons gt Start the virtual machine See Starting Virtual Machine on page 91 Stop the virtual machine See Shutting Down and Resetting Virtual Machine on page 94 e Reset a virtual machine See Shutting Down and Resetting Virtual Machine on page 94 mie Pause the virtual machine See Suspending Resuming Virtual Machine page 95 a Switch the virtual machine to the full screen mode and back to window mode See Switching Virtual Machine to Fullscreen Mode on page 96 Bd Switch the main window to Property Page view See Console View on page 51 and Propert
89. dialog box select the drive to use and specify if you want to have this drive connected at the virtual machine startup Add Hardware Wizard Select a physical device Which physical dive should be connected ta CD Dv D RUM Please select a physical ED D vDI HUM drive which should be connected to the virtual machinae Specify if the virtual machine should assume the CD CD disk inserted at power ar Connect CD DVD ROM at startup Finish Configuring a Virtual Machine 147 5 If you selected Use an ISO image of a CD DVD disc option in the next dialog box click the button to locate the image to be connected to the drive Specify if you want to have this image connected when the virtual machine starts up Add Hardware Wizard Select an 150 image file Where the disk image file iz located Please specify a location where the S50 image file of CO OVD disk is stored m Specify if the virtual machine should assume the CD CD disk inserted at power arn Connect CD DVD ROM at startup 6 Click Finish Adding a Floppy Disk Drive Only one floppy disk drive is allowed for each virtual machine If your virtual machine has already got a floppy disk drive it will not appear in the Available Hardware list To add a floppy disk drive 1 In Configuration Editor click Add to launch Add Hardware Wizard 148 Error No text of specified style in document 2 In the Select hardware dialog box select Floppy in th
90. ditor in the Disk format field on the Advanced page 127 tab of Hard Disk Options Parallels Virtual Machines 17 CD DVD Discs and Images Parallels Workstation can use real CD DVD discs and iso images of CD DVD discs Images in this format can be created by many applications particularly by Parallels Image Tool page 187 that is installed along with Parallels Workstation Parallels Workstation can read ISO images of discs created by many third party applications The current version of Parallels Workstation has no limitations on using multi session CD DVD discs Virtual machine can play back audio CDs no limitation on copy protected discs If your computer has a writable CD DVD ROM drive you can use it to burn CD or DVD discs in a virtual machine Floppy Disks and Floppy Disk Images Parallels Workstation virtual machines can use real floppy disks or images of floppy disks A floppy disk image used by Parallels Workstation has the dd format To create a blank fdd image use the Recreate button on the Floppy Options on page 125 tab in Configuration Editor To create a dd image of a real diskette use Parallels Image Tool page 187 You may also use images of floppy disks created by WinImage or VMware applications These images are files with the img and ima extensions CHAPTER 3 Installing Parallels Workstation This chapter lists the system requirements and provides all the information required
91. e 151 6 Click Finish Adding a Network Adapter Up to 5 network adapters are allowed for each virtual machine If your virtual machine has already got a maximum number of them network adapter will not appear in the Available Hardware list Note Before you start network configuring in a virtual machine with Windows 2003 installed you need to install Parallels Tools The package includes the PRLETH driver specially designed for virtual adapter which is the emulated RTL8029 driver To add a network adapter 1 In Configuration Editor click Add to launch Add Hardware Wizard 2 In the Select hardware dialog box select Network Adapter in the Available Hardware list and click Next Add Hardware Wizard 5 elect hardware What type of hardware do vou want to install Please use the list of available hardware to select a type of hardware you want to install You can add either configured or non contigured device To add a Hard Disk configured device click Next button e CD DVD ROM and go through the set af 3 configuration dialogs Othenwise click Available Hardware ANGE AM ied Add device instantly button After that Sound you will be able to configure device WH Serial Port manually Parallel Part GP USE Controller Add device instantly 152 Error No text of specified style in document 3 Inthe Select a type of networking dialog box specify the type of networking you want to use in your virtual machi
92. e Available Hardware list and click Next Add Hardware Wizard 5 elect hardware What type of hardware do vou want to install Please use the list of available hardware to select a type of hardware you want to install Ee nu can add either configured or nan configured device To add a Hard Disk configured device click Next button e EeD Dvnp ROM and go through the set af S Flopp configuration dialogs Othenwise click PAPARRA Add device instantly button After that e sound vau will be able ta configure device J Serial Port manually C Parallel Part e USE Controller Add device instantly 3 Inthe Select action type dialog box specify the type of floppy disk drive Fora physical drive select the Use a physical floppy drive option and click Next For an existing image of a floppy disk select the Use an existing image of a floppy disk option and click Next Configuring a Virtual Machine 149 For a blank image of a floppy disk select the Create a blank image of a floppy disk option and click Next Add Hardware Wizard Select action type What media type should be associated with the Floppy virtual drive Please specify what kind of media the virtual floppy dive should access C3 Use an existing image of a floppy disk CO Create a blank image of a floppy disk 4 If you selected Use a physical floppy drive option in the next dialog box choose the drive to use and specify if you want to have this drive connected
93. e Enabled and the Connect at startup options are selected Connect the installation media If you install from a real floppy disk Select Use real floppy and choose the real drive to be used by the VM from the Floppy Drives list Insert the installation floppy disk into the appropriate drive of your computer If you install from an image file Select Use image file and specify the path to the dd file in the Image File field Click the Save button at the bottom of the Configuration Editor window to save the virtual machine configuration Start the virtual machine by clicking Power On on the toolbar Follow the installation instructions for the operating system Reinstalling or Upgrading the Guest OS Reinstalling the Guest OS First of all with virtual machines you don t have to re install the guest OS just create a new virtual machine install the guest OS and delete the old machine after moving all the necessary data to the new one If nevertheless you are going to install or repair the guest operating system on a virtual hard disk where the guest OS is already installed 1 Change the booting sequence Open the Property Page of the virtual machine click the Edit button in the lower part of the Page or select Edit Configuration from the Flle menu Open the Booting Options tab Set the boot sequence either to CD ROM Hard Disk Floppy or to Floppy Hard Disk CD ROM depending on the installa
94. e Start button to defragment the hard disk After the disk image has been defragmented click Exit in the Processing is completed dialog box Creating Images of Floppy Disks To create a floppy disk image follow these steps 1 Insert the required floppy disk into the floppy disk drive of your computer 2 Start Parallels Image Tool 204 Error No text of specified style in document 3 Inthe Welcome dialog box select Skip Introduction next time if you want to skip this dialog box next time you run the Image Tool Click Next F Parallels Image Tool Welcome to the Parallels Image Tool Use this tool to maintain your vitual data storage devices Parallels Image Tool wil help you to create new or maintain existing images of data storage devices such as virtual hard disks CD DVD ROM images and floppy disk mages Please chick Next bulton to proceed or click Cancel to eat the Image Tool Using Parallels Image Tool 205 4 Inthe Select device type dialog box select the Floppy Disk Drive option and click Next F Parallels Image Tool Select device type Please select type of data storage device select a typ amp ol Device Types Fiopoy Disk Drive 206 Error No text of specified style in document 5 In the Select Operation Type dialog box make sure that the Create new Floppy Disk image option is selected Click Next AE Parallels Image Tool Please s
95. e desired tools from the list of the tools available for the guest OS In the Ready to Install the Program window review the installation settings Click the Install button to start the installation If the Windows guest operating system is configured to warn you every time an unsigned driver is installed you will receive the following message Parallels Tools installation contains a number of unsigned drivers These drivers are required for proper functioning of Parallels Tools Currently your system is configured to warn you every time an unsigned driver is installed Do you want to receive these warnings during Parallels Tools installation Click OK to disable warnings during Parallels Tools installation They will be re enabled later when the installation 1s complete If your system is configured to block the unsigned drivers installation you receive the similar message prompting you to allow these drivers installation Click OK otherwise Parallels Tools can not be installed The wizard copies the files When finished the Update Completed window appears You are prompted to restart the virtual machine Accept the selected option and click Finish Note Parallels Tools will not function properly until the virtual machine is restarted Windows NT In Windows NT guest OS readme files for installation of the video and audio drivers will be open Close them since re installation of the drivers is not required Uninstalling Parallels
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97. e s Property Page is displayed 96 Error No text of specified style in document Note While the virtual machine is being suspended its configuration can not be changed If you start editing it anyway despite the warning the sav file will be deleted and you will not be able to resume the virtual machine Resuming a Suspended Virtual Machine To resume a suspended virtual machine 1 Open the virtual machine 2 Do one of the following Click the Power On button Choose Power On from the VM menu 3 Wait until the guest OS state is resumed Progress is displayed in the Please wait while virtual machine is resuming window After the virtual machine is resumed its sav file is deleted Switching Virtual Machine to Full screen Mode You can run a guest operating system in full screen mode with the guest OS console window occupying the whole screen of your computer In full screen mode the primary OS and its applications as well as the Parallels Workstation menu toolbar and status bar are not visible To switch to full screen while running a guest OS do one of the following Click Fullscreen Mode Ea toolbar button Choose Fullscreen from the View menu Press the hot key combination Alt Enter by default unless you defined another one To return to window mode press any of the hot key combinations defined Ct r1 Al1t or Alt Enter by default Hot key combinations are defined on the Hot Key Combination
98. e to boot from the virtual hard disk 9 Start the virtual machine After booting is complete log in Ubuntu Linux 6 0 6 Server Problem with Connecting USB Devices in Linux Primary OS If you receive the Unable to connect USB device message while trying to connect an USB device to your virtual machine on a computer running Linux primary OS the most probable cause 1s that you do not have permissions to access USB devices To fix the problem 1 Check if an usb operating group exists in your Linux primary OS 2 Ifthe group exists In the Terminal issue the command su to gain root privileges Enter the password to the root account when prompted Include into the usb operating group users who have to have an access to USB devices Run the exit command to leave the root account Proceed to step 4 3 If the group does not exist In the Terminal enter the command su to gain root privileges Create a group and add users who will have an access to USB devices In the etc fstab file edit the string that mounts the usbfs The Devgid parameter must contain the identifier of the group created in the previous step 218 Error No text of specified style in document usbfs proc bus usb usbts devgid lt USB gid gt devmode 0664 0 O0 This option works only the compiled kernel has relevant support for USB Run the exit command to leave the root account 4 Restart your Linux primary OS Configuring Display
99. e tool For complete description see the Parallels Tools Overview page 77 Running a Virtual Machine 109 Network Driver Options CA Parallels Tools Center Tool Status Network Driver Options IE Clipboard Synchronization Enabled a Time Synchronization Enabled Video Driver Enabled Enabled Ca Mouse Synchronization Enabled eni Hamas zu renier Parallels includes the Parallels Network Adapter Driver which is E Disk Compacting Enabled specifically developed to improve network performance This driver is Shared Folders Enabled automatically installed with Parallels Tools We recommend that you use this driver whenever possible however you are able to temporarily return to the native Realtek HTLSUZ3 driver at any time To enable the Parallels Network Adapter Driver select the Enabled checkbox To return to the native Realtek ATLEU29 driver deselect the Enabled checkbox The driver can be changed without restarting the quest operating system Status Description Status Enabled option shows the current status of the Parallels Network Adapter driver To use the native Realtek RTL8029 driver clear the Enabled check box Drivers can be changed without restarting the guest operating system however network connection can be temporarily lost Description Displays a short description of the tool For complete description see the Parallels Tools Overview page 77 Saving Changes After you have made the desired changes o
100. e types of disks that can be used by Parallels virtual machines Hard Disk Images The current version of Parallels Workstation does not support using physical hard disks or partitions Parallels Workstation can work only with virtual hard disks stored as hdd files You can create a new virtual hard disk for the virtual machine The size of a virtual disk can be set within this range 20 MB 128 GB Format of The Virtual Disk A virtual hard disk may be in one of two formats plain or expanding plain A plain disk has the same size from the moment it 1s created The guest OS operates a bit faster on plain disk A plain disk can be converted to expanding disk with the help of Parallels Image Tool expanding An expanding disk 1s small initially and grows as you add applications and data to the virtual machine The disk size specified when the disk is created is the maximum size to which the disk can grow Using expanding disks saves space on the hard disk of your computer Expanding disk can be converted to plain disk with the help of Parallels Image Tool See also the Maintaining Virtual Hard Disks topic Disk format is set when you create a hard disk image If you need to change the format after the virtual disk 1s created use Parallels Image Tool page 193 Virtual disks of both formats are saved as h a files however the structures of disk files are different You can see the format of the virtual disk displayed in Configuration E
101. e user to modify images of virtual hard disks and to create images of real hard disks CD DVD discs and floppies 8 Error No text of specified style in document What s New in This Version New Guest OSes Support Now Parallels Workstation officially supports the following guest operating systems Ubuntu Linux 5 0 4 6 06 7 04 CentOS 2 3 4 5 AMD Virtualization technology support Parallels Workstation provides significantly improved AMD Virtualization M AMD V technology support Parallels Tools for Linux Guest OSes To ensure a better integration between your primary and guest OS Parallels Workstation provides a set of tools for Linux guest OSes that includes Dynamic Resolution Tool Mouse Synchronization Tool and Time Synchronization Tool See Parallels Tools for Linux page 112 for details New Linux Kernels Support Parallels Workstation supports the new Linux kernels v2 6 20 and v2 6 22 About This Guide This Guide is aimed at a wide range of users who want to use Parallels Desktop to create configure and run Parallels virtual machines Notation Conventions The table below presents the conventions used in this Guide This font Used for buttons options menus and menu commands windows and dialog boxes Used for keys paths and folder names This font Used for console commands in Linux and Windows This font Used for tips glossary items and options or modes mentioned in the text Type Styles
102. eature in the Preferences Common screen We recommend you to turn this feature on and you will be informed when Parallels Workstation updates are released Parallels Workstation will regularly access the Parallels updates web server to check if a later version than the one currently installed is available By default checking for updates is performed once a week in background mode That means you will be notified only when an update is found you will get the following message A newer version of the Parallels Workstation is available Do you want to start Parallels Update Wizard Click Yes to download the update Requirements to Your Computer To be able to use auto update feature your computer must be connected to the Internet Note If you have firewall and or antivirus software installed in your primary operating system they may display warnings when Parallels Workstation tries to access the Internet for update Please configure them properly to allow Parallels Workstation to perform updating Configuring Auto Update You can specify the frequency of update checks i e daily weekly or monthly using the Automatically checks for update option on the Common page 170 tab of the Preferences window Auto update checking can be disabled by selecting the Don t check value from the same drop down list You can enable the auto update feature at any time Update Wizard in Linux Parallels Workstation includes Parallels Update Wizard
103. ect the physical hard disk in the Source list You may type the path and the file name Alternatively click Choose locate the hard disk image Specify the new size for the hard disk You may type a new size in the Image Size field or use the arrows to set the desired value Click Next Fi Parallels Image Tool Specily source and destination Specily source image or device and deshmation path for the oulput data ou ans going bo increase size of a vetu hard disk Please select source hard disk image and use spinner button to specily new disk size Source and destination Sene C Documents and Settings Lishn My Docurments Parallels Vitt MB al t Image size 16384 6 In the Review processing options dialog box carefully review the settings If everything is correct click the Start button to increase the size of the disk 7 After the disk size has been increased click Exit in the Processing is completed dialog box Converting a Plain Disk into an Expanding Disk You can convert a plain virtual disk into an expanding one or create an expanding copy of a plain virtual hard disk To convert a plain disk image into an expanding one 1 Start Parallels Image Tool 2 Inthe Welcome dialog box select the Skip Introduction next time option if you want to skip this dialog box next time you run the Image Tool Click Next 3 Inthe Select device type dialog box select the Hard Disk Drive option and click Next 198 Error No text of s
104. ed in your virtual machine Click Next If you have selected Host only Networking or Networking is not required proceed to the Step 11 of the current instructions 10 If you have selected Bridged Ethernet networking for the new machine specify which real adapter should be connected to the virtual machine Select one in the list and click Next New Virtual Machine Wizard Select a real adapter Which network interface connects your computer to the physical network Please select a real network interface which should be connected to the virtual machine Intel A PRO100 YE Network Connection Packet Specify if the virtual machine should assume the network cable connected at power OF Connect cable at startup T2 Error No text of specified style in document 11 In the Select virtual machine configuration file window specify a descriptive name for the virtual machine in the Virtual machine name field The name must not exceed 50 characters In the Configuration file field the default path and name for the configuration file is shown the folder where the new virtual hard disk was saved is shown or the default folder specified in Preferences To select other that the default values use the Browse button or make corrections directly in the field New Virtual Machine Wizard Select virtual machine configuration file Where do you want to store the configuratio
105. eges to edit the prluserd script Compacting Virtual Disk Expanding virtual disks grow in size as you work with them even if you delete unnecessary and temporary files periodically Disk Compacting Tool helps to maintain the actual size of virtual disk files as small as possible Disk Compacting Tool cleans up the unused disk space on expanding virtual hard disks and cuts off the cleaned free space thus reducing the sizes of virtual disk files in the primary OS We recommend that you use Disk Compacting Tool on your virtual machines from time to time to save space on the host hard disk Note The Disk Compacting Tool does NOT process plain virtual disks Disk Compacting Procedure In general the compacting procedure consists of two stages 1 A preparatory stage performed in the guest OS This stage is supported only for Windows 95 08 NT ME 2000 XP 2003 Vista guest OSes only after Parallels Tools are installed All types of partitions FAT 16 FAT 32 and NTFS can be processed During this stage the unused space is being cleaned 2 A compacting stage performed in the primary OS This procedure removes clean unused space from the virtual disk file only space available at the end of the file This option is available for any guest operating system Two Stage Disk Compacting in Windows Guest OSes 1 When the virtual machine is running open the Parallels Tools Center by clicking its icon on the status bar N In the Parallels
106. elect disk format Expanding recommended Disk image file i small initially and grows as you add more data to the virtual machine This disk format takes less time to create and saves disk space on the host C Plain Disk image file consumes all the allocated space right from the start It takes mare time to create but allows quest 05 to operate Faster 7 In the Select an image file window specify a location to store the image of virtual disk and the name of that image To use the default location just click Next Creating a Virtual Machine 69 The default location is specified on the Common tab page 170 in the Preferences window Files of a new virtual machine are automatically placed to a new folder that is named in the following way guest OS gt lt number of the machine of the same version 1 gt For instance the first Windows 2000 virtual machine is placed to the win2000 folder The second Windows 2000 virtual machine is placed to the Nwin2000 1w folder and so on To specify other than the default location use the Browse button or make corrections directly into the field New Virtual Machine Wizard Select an image file Where do you want to store the hard disk image File Please specify a location of the hard disk image file E Li m n 1 M u aT c ments Parallels Virtual Ma c hin es wiinzlbl f55swn2g 5 hd Click Next The wizard prompts you to confirm the creating of new folder Click Yes
107. elect tyme of an operation to be peitormved z mm ml mam ums mim 11 5 h b L mum m 7 d wath f Te JE sl select an operauon pe to De DEITOITHEO WiN MOREY ESK Using Parallels Image Tool 207 6 In the Specify source and destination dialog box select the source device the floppy disk drive and specify the destination folder and the name for the output floppy disk image file You may type the path and the file name or locate it using the Browse button Click Next Fi Parallels Image Tool Specily source and destination Specily source image or device and deshnation path for the oulput data You are going bo create an image of a meal floppy disk Please select source floppy drive and specify destination path for the output floppy image u Source and destination e E C Program Files Parallels Parallels Workstation oppy fdd Destination 208 Error No text of specified style in document 7 In the Review processing options dialog box carefully review the settings If everything is correct click the Start button to create the floppy disk image file Fi Parallels Image Tool Review processing options Please check options prior the Image Tool starts processing Now the Image Tool is ready to begin execution Please examine processing options carefully Make sure you ve made a backup copy of your data pac Ihe Image Tool starte processing the image file Processing options i Device type Flopp
108. els Workstation is activated and you may use all of its features and capabilities Registering your copy of Parallels Workstation After you have activated your copy of Parallels Workstation with a permanent activation key the next time you start Parallels Workstation you will be asked to register Click the Register button to open the online user registration form in your Web browser Provide your contact information if you want to receive emails about new updates and products Welcome to Parallels Workstation Welcome and thank you for choosing Parallels Workstation Please click Register to instantly register your product online Click Remind Me Later if you re planning on registering but don t wish to do sa right now Click Don t Ask Me Again if you prefer notto register and do not wantto see this message in the future Remind Me Later Don t Ask Me Again Register Installing Parallels Workstation 31 Getting an Activation Key If you already have an activation key skip this section To get a trial activation key Choose Activate Product from the Help menu In the Activate Product dialog box click the obtain a free trial activation key link In the User Registration window specify your e mail and your name if you want to receive news from Parallels by e mail These fields are optional gistration Form 1 01 00 Required information Optional information Please fill registration form and
109. end the report to the Parallels Team In Windows primary OS 1 To send a report to Parallels select the Send report to reports parallels com option and click OK This command closes the Report a problem window and opens the default e mail client application Create a new letter Attach two files to it status report and the session screen shot The status report and the screen shot are saved in the Bugreports folder in the Parallels Workstation folder By default it 1s C Program Files Parallels Parallels Workstation Bugreports Note On Vista primary OS the default Bugreports folder is located at C Users lt User_Name gt AppData Local VirtualStore Program Files Parallels Parallels Workstation BugReports If you decide not to send a report clear the Send report to reports parallels com check box and click OK In Linux primary OS 1 To send a report to Parallels select the Send report to reports parallels com option and click OK 2 Then start your e mail client application open a new email and attach both the status report and the console screen shot to it The files can be found in the following folder usr lib parallels bugreports 3 Specify the following e mail address for the letter reports parallels com 216 Error No text of specified style in document Creating a report manually If you notice an unusual virtual machine behavior create a problem report For this select Report a Problem in the Help m
110. enu Parallels Workstation generates a report which contains technical data collected at the moment when the Report a problem command was called If a guest OS was running at the moment a screen shot of the guest OS window was created Problems with Networking Inside a Virtual Machine If you encounter any problem with networking inside a virtual machine varying from inability to access the Internet to host only network configuring failure we recommend that you check your primary OS firewall settings The primary OS firewall may affect Parallels Host Guest Virtual NIC page 165 network adapter thus preventing host only network functioning It also may interfere with Bridged Ethernet networking Installing Ubuntu Linux 6 0 6 Server Ubuntu Linux 6 0 6 Server when installed in a virtual machine in a standard way can not load the default kernel You have to perform some additional steps after the guest OS installation 1s complete Perform an initial installation of Ubuntu Linux 6 0 6 Server in a virtual machine follow these steps 1 With New Virtual Machine Wizard create a typical virtual machine with Linux as the OS Type and Other Linux Kernel 2 60rDebian Linux as the OS Version 2 Insert the installation CD DVD in the default CD DVD ROM drive or connect its image to the virtual machine 3 Install the Ubuntu Linux 6 0 6 Server Do not disconnect the installation CD DVD or its image 4 Shut down the virtual machine Additional ste
111. erface Hot keys Look and feel Allow ta change host resolution in fullscreen made Restore hidden messages Managing Virtual Machines 175 The User Interface tab in a Linux primary OS is presented on the picture below w Preferences User Interface Look and feel Dialog font Sans Serif 9 Default font Show tooltips Allow to change guest resolution in fullscreen mode Allow to change host resolution in fullscreen mode Help browser Help browser executable fusr bin mozilla Restore hidden messages Look and feel Dialog font option is available in Linux primary OSes only It allows user to select preferable font its size and other parameters to be used in system dialogs Click Browse button near the field and choose new font if you wish to To restore the default font and its size use the Default font button Show tooltips option is available in Linux primary OSes only If the option is selected you will see tooltips appearing when you point the toolbar buttons and the command buttons on the Property Page see Property Page page 49 This option is selected by default Allow to change guest resolution in fullscreen mode If this option is selected a virtual machine switched to full screen mode will use the screen resolution as in the primary OS Available only when the video driver from Parallels Tools page 76 is installed in the guest OS Allow to change host resolution in fullscreen
112. ers in your guest OS 186 Error No text of specified style in document Viewing Shared Folders in Guest OS There are two ways to view the contents of the shared folders in the guest OS Easy Way The Shared Folders Options tab in Parallels Tools Center contains the Place shortcut on the desktop option If it is selected to view the contents of the shared folders Click the Parallels Shared Folders icon on the desktop of the running guest OS General Way 1 Inthe virtual machine open Windows Explorer 2 In Explorer select My Networks Places then select Entire Network and find Parallels Shared Folders 3 Click Parallels Shared Folders to view the list of shared folders available in your virtual machine Note To be able to write to a shared folder inside a virtual machine clear the Read Only check box for the folder in Configuration Editor CHAPTER 13 Using Parallels Image Tool Virtual machines can handle several types of image files that are used by virtual devices These are 1mages of hard disks CD DVD discs and floppy disks Parallels Workstation package includes a special tool for creating and modifying such images Parallels Image Tool This utility is automatically installed along with Parallels Workstation This chapter provides all the information necessary to use Parallels Image Tool In This Chapter OVOELVIG W ecddlonuda e tede ptione bakes ate eee hata Nalgene eee aaa i e dud 187 Starting Parallels
113. etworking 165 Browser for displaying help in Linux primary OS 174 C Capturing keyboard and mouse 93 CD DVD images CD DVD images used by virtual machine 17 creating images of CD DVD discs 208 CD DVD ROM drive connecting CD DV D ROM e 100 options 129 Changing boot sequence changing 73 120 configuration at runtime 98 media 98 screen resolution Linux 167 screen resolution Windows 166 toolbar position 54 Clipboard synchronization between primary OS and guest OS 77 105 Cloning a virtual machine 178 Compacting virtual hard disks 110 113 Configuration Editor 118 Configuration of a virtual machine creating virtual machine s configuration 59 definition 15 editing 118 connecting CD DVD ROM 100 CD DVD ROM drive connecting 100 floppy drive connecting 100 microphone USB 103 Network adapter 101 parallel port 102 serial port 102 sound device 102 Converting expanding disk into plain disk 199 plain disk into expanding 197 CPU emulated in virtual machine 12 required on host computer 18 Creating a virtual machine 59 custom screen resolutions 166 custom virtual machine 65 images of CD DVD discs 208 new virtual hard disks 16 typical virtual machine 63 virtual hard disks 126 Custom virtual machines 59 65 D Default folder 170 Default key combinations 176 Defragment an expanding hard disk image 193 Defragmenting expanding disks 201
114. ew virtual machine Click Next New Virtual Machine Wizard Select quest 15 Which operating system will be installed on this virtual machine Please specify which quest operating system will be installed on this virtual machine Guest 05 Type 5 Specify a name for the virtual machine The name must have less than 50 characters Creating a Virtual Machine 65 In the Configuration file field the default path and name for the configuration file are shown The default folder for Parallels virtual machines can be specified on the Common tab of the Preferences window You may specify other than the default folder to store the configuration file You may type directly into the field or use the Browse button to locate a folder Click Finish to creating your new virtual machine or click Back to change settings on the previous steps New Virtual Machine Wizard Select virtual machine configuration file Where do you want to store the configuration file Please specify a virtual machine name and location of the virtual machine configuration file Virtual machine name Microzotk Windows 2000 Configuration File SD acuments and Settings Lisanthy D acumentssParallels Virtual Machines A After you click Finish the new configuration is generated and its Property Page is displayed Creating Custom Virtual Machine I New VN 1 Open Parallels Workstation Click the button on the Command Button panel or c
115. ext Delete Virtual Machine Wizard Welcome to the Delete Virtual Machine Wizard This wizard allows you ta delete currently opened virtual machine and its associated Files from disk Please click Next button to proceed Click Cancel to exit the wizard Cancel 3 The wizard finds all files related to the virtual machine and displays the list of them on the Review files to be deleted dialog box The configuration file virtual hard disk output files of serial and parallel ports and the home folder are pre selected for deleting However iso and fdd images are not listed because they can be used by other virtual machines If you want to delete them too select them for deleting in this dialog box Note Make sure you are not going to delete the virtual hard disk that is also used by other virtual machine Managing Virtual Machines 183 Review the selection and click Finish Delete Virtual Machine Wizar d Review files to be deleted Which files associated with virtual machine vou want to delete Please review file resources to be deleted Click Finish to begin deleting ar click Cancel to abandon the operation Type Path A LOM output file C Documents and SeltingssLig amp n sy Docume LPT output file C Documents and Settings sLishhshy Docume FOD image C Program Files Parallels ymtools fdd CB ISO image L Images wing r3E E Corpin DIE E Corp HOD image C Documents and SettingssLig amp nsMy Docume C Docume
116. for more information Note You can configure your virtual machine to start in full screen mode right away Select the Switch to fullscreen mode automatically option on the VM Flags tab in Configuration Editor Changing Configuration at Runtime Although Configuration Editor on page 118 cannot be accessed while a virtual machine 1s running you can connect disconnect certain devices at runtime or change the media they are using This section describes how to handle devices at runtime Running a Virtual Machine 99 Overview Generally the following virtual devices can be connected disconnected at runtime CD DVD ROM drives Floppy disk drive Network adapter Parallel ports Serial ports Sound device USB devices Only the devicesthat are enabled in the virtual machine configuration can be connected or disconnected at runtime To enable a device stop the virtual machine then enable the device in the Configuration Editor and start the virtual machine After that the device can be connected or disconnected at a runtime The devices configurable at runtime can be configured in the following ways by using commands from the Devices menu in the menu bar by clicking a device icon on the status bar and choosing command from the device shortcut menu USB Devices If you start the virtual machine with the USB controller enabled you may connect various real USB peripherals to the virtual machine The USB con
117. g box carefully review the settings If everything is correct click the Start button to convert the hard disk 7 After the disk image has been converted click Exit in the Processing is completed dialog box Converting an Expanding Disk into a Plain Disk You can convert an expanding virtual disk into a plain one or create a plain copy of an expanding virtual hard disk To convert an expanding disk into a plain one Start Parallels Image Tool 2 Inthe Welcome dialog box select the Skip Introduction next time option if you want to skip this dialog box next time you run the Image Tool Click Next 3 Inthe Select device type dialog box select the Hard Disk Drive option and click Next 200 Error No text of specified style in document 4 In the Select operation type dialog box select the Maintain an existing Hard Disk image option On the Hard Disk actions pane in the lower part of the dialog select Convert expanding Hard Disk image to plain Hard Disk image and click Next Y5 Parallels Image Tool Select operation type Please select type of an operation to be performed Please select an operation type to be perfomved wath virtual hard disk Hard Disk operations O Create new Hard Disk image Maintain an existing Hard Disk image Please select n action to acule Hard Disk actions Increase size of Hard Disk image O Convert plain Hard Disk image to expanding Hard Disk image Defragment expanding Hard Disk image
118. g in launch the Terminal program and enter the command n the command line parallels When you start Parallels Workstation for the first time you will be prompted to decide whether you want to perform regular automatic checks for updates or not See Auto Updating Parallels Workstation in Linux page 39 for more information about the auto update feature Activating Parallels Workstation in Linux You cannot work with Parallels Workstation until you activate it with an activation key For how to get an activation key see below in this topic To activate Parallels Workstation in Linux do the following 1 Click Help in the Parallels Workstation main menu and select Activate Product 2 In the Activate Product dialog box fill in the following fields In the Activation key field type the activation key When the field is not blank the Activate button becomes enabled 30 Error No text of specified style in document Specify your name and name of your company in the User Name and Company Name fields These fields are optional Md Activate Product This copy of Parallels Workstation 2 1 is currently not active Please purchase a permanent activation key or obtain a free trial activation key Co Leer 3 Click the Activate button If you have entered a valid activation key the following confirmation message will be displayed Parallels Workstation has been activated successfully Thank you Now your copy of the Parall
119. ge Media Accessed by the CD DVD ROM Drive Do one of the following 1 Choose CD DVD ROM number from the Devices menu Select Connect to drive letter to access the real CD DVD ROM drive or Connect image to access an image file 2 Right click the CD DVD ROM icon 5 on the status bar and choose the command from the device context menu Connecting Floppy Drive If you start a guest operating system with the floppy drive enabled you may connect or disconnect it and change its options while running the guest OS Parallels Workstation allows you to connect or disconnect floppy drive change media that floppy drive access While the guest OS is using the floppy disk inserted into the floppy drive the primary OS cannot access the floppy disk Connect or Disconnecting Floppy Drive To connect or disconnect the floppy drive do the following 1 Choose Floppy drive letter from the Devices menu Running a Virtual Machine 101 2 Select the Connect or Disconnect command to connect or disconnect the CD DVD ROM drive respectively Note You may also connect disconnect a floppy drive using the context menu of the floppy drive F on the status bar How to Change Media Accessed by Floppy Drive The floppy drive can use a real floppy disk or an 1mage file To change the media accessed by the floppy drive 1 Choose Floppy drive letter from the Devices menu 2 Select Connect to drive letter to access the real CD DVD
120. guration When starting the Windows primary OS in the Please select the operating system to start window choose the configuration with the following comment for Parallels Workstation In the future boot into the Windows configuration without PAE to work with Parallels Workstation In Linux Primary OS When starting or running a virtual machine in Linux primary OS you may receive the following warnings Parallels Workstation can not be started due to VM memory Mapping failure Parallels Workstation experience problem when trying to allocate physical memory in PAE mode It means that the currently running kernel supports PAE greater than 4 GB The current version of Parallels Workstation supports up to 4 GB PAE only To fix the problem you have to change the auto detected PAE value to 4096MB Do the following Add to the boot loader the kernel option mem 4096M refer to your boot loader documentation for details Running a Virtual Machine 93 Capturing and Releasing the Keyboard and the Mouse This section explains how to capture input devices for the guest OS and how to release them to the primary OS When you power on a virtual machine you have to capture the input of such input devices as mouse or keyboard in the virtual machine to work in the virtual machine To access Parallels Workstation s menu and toolbar or to work with applications in the primary operating system you have to rele
121. her addresses are assigned to the virtual machines Scope start address and Scope end address should belong to the same subnet Use the Scope mask field to set the subnet mask Note Before changing DHCP scope settings make sure that there is no virtual machine running in Host only networking mode To check the networking mode of a running virtual machine 1 Point to the network adapter icon 3 in the status bar 2 Check the Mode line in the tooltip Changing Network Preferences in Linux Primary OS To edit settings on this tab in Linux primary OS you need root privileges Users with other than root privileges can only view them To edit settings on the Network tab 1 Inthe Terminal run the command su c parallels to get root privileges Enter the password to the root account when prompted 2 Start Parallels Workstation by entering the command parallels 3 In the Parallels Workstation menu select Edit gt Preferences gt Network and enter new settings on the Network tab 4 Close Parallels Workstation 5 Inthe Terminal run the exit command to exit the root account 6 Start Parallels Workstation and log in the guest OS 174 Error No text of specified style in document User Interface Preferences User interface preferences can be different for each user of your computer The User Interface tab in a Windows primary OS is presented on the picture below Preferences Common Memory Network User Int
122. hoose New VM from the File menu The Welcome window of New Virtual Machine Wizard will appear Click Next 66 Error No text of specified style in document 2 In the Select virtual machine configuration window select the Create a custom VM configuration option Click Next New Virtual Machine Wizard Select virtual machine configuration Haw to configure your new virtual machine Please specify how would you like ta configure your virtual machine C Create a typical VM recommended This ix the Fastest way to create a new VM The wizard will create a WM with the mast common options for a selected quest 15 You will be able to canfiqure VM later in the Configuration Editor Create a blank VM Choose this option if you need a YM with the empty configuration 3 In the Select guest OS window specify the type and the version of the guest operating system you want to install in a new virtual machine Click Next New Virtual Machine Wizard Select quest 15 Which operating system will be installed on this virtual machine Please specify which quest operating system will be installed on this virtual machine Guest 05 Type auest 15 Version Creating a Virtual Machine 67 4 In the Specify memory size window set the amount of RAM for the new machine We strongly recommend that you allocate no more than the half of the physical RAM available on your computer To set memory value use slider
123. how startup dialog define what happens at Parallels Workstation startup By default both options are selected In such a case the application opens the last used virtual machine configuration at startup If this configuration is already used by another instance of Parallels Workstation or the configuration file cannot be found for instance it was moved to another folder or deleted then the Startup Options dialog will be open If the Load recently used VM at startup option is selected while the Show startup dialog option is not selected Parallels Workstation will open a blank virtual machine when it is unable to open the last used virtual machine If the Load recently used VM at startup option is not selected while the Show startup dialog is selected Parallels Workstation always starts with the Startup Options dialog If both options are not selected Parallels Workstation starts with a blank virtual machine More information on the Parallels Workstation startup can be found in the Selecting and Opening Virtual Machine on page 91 and Startup Options Dialog page 47 topics Managing Virtual Machines 171 Automatically check for updates option defines a time interval for the auto update feature Choose one of the values Every day Every week or Every month to perform automatic check for updates with that periodicity Choose Never to disable the auto update feature See also the topics Auto Updating Parallels Workstation in Windows
124. hronization Tool consists of the mouse driver and the video filter To install the Mouse Synchronization Tool you should have a VESA video driver installed such as SDD or GENGRADD For instructions on how to do this refer to OS 2 documentation To install the Mouse Synchronization Tool 1 Click the Drives icon on the system panel Select the CD ROM drive and locate the Drivers Mouse OS2 directory Note When installing the driver on the eComStation go to the Drivers MMouseNECS12 directory 2 Launch the INSTALL CMD batch file The INSTALL CMD copies files and makes necessary modifications to the CONFIG SYS file 3 Restart the guest OS 2 operating system Clipboard Synchronization Tool Installation In OS 2 and eComStation you have to launch the Clipboard Synchronization Tool manually This tool is an ordinary application and should be treated as such If you want the Clipboard Synchronization tool to start automatically when your guest operating system is started include the tool file Pr1Clip exe into autostart group Startup cmd file or another file used in the guest operating system for similar purposes The Clipboard Synchronization Tool is located in the ClipBrdYOS2 directory on the CD ROM containing Parallels Tools Sound Driver Installation Before installing the Sound Driver make sure you have multimedia support installed in OS 2 guest OS To install the Sound Driver Click the System Setup icon on the system panel
125. ic IP address for the primary operating system In Windows primary OS Open Windows Control Panel select Network Connections 2 In the Network Connections window right click the Parallels Host Guest Virtual NIC to display its context menu and select Properties from it 3 In the Parallels Host Guest Virtual NIC Properties window in This connection uses the following item list select Internet Protocol TCP IP and click the Properties button 4 In the Internet Protocol TCP IP Properties window select the Use the following IP address option after that other options in this group become accessible Specify IP address and Subnet mask for the primary operating system In Linux primary OS 1 Oppen usrib Parallels dhcpd configuration file 2 Settings under vnicO0 define Parallels network adapter parameters Find the string DHCP 1 This setting means that address for the primary operating system is assigned automatically To allow using a static IP address change the DHCP setting to O instead of 1 Set DHCP 0 and save the file 3 Launch the Terminal program and run two following commands etc init d parallels stop and after this etc init d parallels start 4 Specify an IP address for the primary system by means of the Linux version installed on your computer Custom Screen Resolutions Like a physical computer a virtual machine allows changing screen resolutions In virtual machine you can set non standard screen resoluti
126. ices to be connected automatically when the virtual machine is running Add Hardware Wizard Specify USB options Would you like ta emulate USE controller Specify if the virtual machine should assume the USE devices automatically connect at running 4 Click Finish 164 Error No text of specified style in document Removing Devices Some of the virtual devices can be removed from the configuration Memory Options Shared Folders and Video items can not be removed Note Any device except the memory can be disabled in Configuration Editor on page 118 without removing it from the configuration Clear the Enabled check box for the desired device To remove a device Open the virtual machine Open Configuration Editor by choosing Edit Configuration from the File menu or clicking the button Select the device you want to delete in the Resources list in the left pane of Configuration Editor window Note that Options Shared folders Video and Memory items can not be deleted Click the Remove button Note If you accidentally removed the wrong device close the Configuration Editor window without clicking the Save button Save Click the configuration button to save the changes in the virtual machine Using USB Devices in Virtual Machine The current version of Parallels Workstation emulates the 8 port 2 0 and 2 port 1 1 USB controller This means that up to eight USB 2 0 and 2 USB 1 1 device
127. icts Advanced options Synchronization interval sec defines the time interval between two synchronization operations Use scroll buttons to set the desired value or simply type it into the field The value must be in the range from 10 to 3600 seconds To synchronize the guest OS and the primary OS system times 1 Select the Enabled option 2 Setthe desired value of the synchronization interval in the Synchronization Interval field Keep time difference between primary and guest OS option allows you to maintain a constant difference between the guest OS and the primary OS system times To set the different time in both OSes 1 Select the Enabled option 2 Select the Keep Time Difference option 3 In the guest OS set the desired current time The Time Synchronization Tool will calculate the difference at the moment when the guest OS time is set and will maintain it Running a Virtual Machine 107 Description Displays the short description of the tool For a complete description see the Parallels Tools Overview page 77 Saving Changes After you have made the desired changes on the tab do one of the following Click the Apply button to activate changes and choose another tab for editing Click the OK button to activate changes and close Parallels Tools Center Video Driver Options Parallels Tools Center Tool Status Video Driver Options e Clipboard Synchronization Enabled D3 Time Synchroni
128. ified style in document 4 In the Select operation type dialog box select the Maintain an existing Hard Disk image option In the Hard Disk actions section in the lower part of the dialog box select Defragment expanding Hard Disk image and click Next 75 Parallels Image Tool Select operation type Please select lype of an operation to be performed F w Please select an operation type to be performed wath virtual hard disk Hard Disk operations O Create new Hard Disk image Maintain an existing Hard Disk image Please select an action to execute Hard Disk actions Increase size of Hard Disk image 3 Convest plain Hard Disk image to expanding Hard Disk image C Convert expanding Hard Disk image to plain Hard Disk image Using Parallels Image Tool 203 5 In the Specify source and destination folder dialog box select the expanding hard disk in the Source field You may type the path and the file name Alternatively click Browse locate and select the expanding hard disk image Click Next Fi Parallels Image Tool Specily source and destination Specily source image or device and deshnation path for the oulput data ou ane going to defragment an expanding vitu hand disk Please select source hard disk image for processing Source and destination 3I C Documents and SettingsALisAn MM y Documents Paralele Vit In the Review processing options dialog box carefully review the settings If everything 1s correct click th
129. ine form in your Web browser Please provide your contact information if you want to receive notifications about our new updates and products Registration is optional Uninstalling Parallels Workstation in Windows Uninstalling Parallels Workstation does not delete any files that have been created using Parallels Workstation such as configuration files virtual hard disks CD disc iso images floppy dd images and serial or parallel port output files Note You must have Power User or Administrator rights to uninstall the Parallels Workstation in a Windows primary operating system The procedure may be slightly different in different Windows versions To remove Parallels Workstation follow these steps 1 Open the Windows Start menu select Control Panel select Add Remove Programs and then select Parallels Workstation Click the Remove button to begin uninstalling Click Yes when prompted Do you want to completely remove the selected application and all of its features 4 The wizard asks whether you want to remove the activation information or keep it If you choose to keep it you will not be asked to enter an activation key next time you install Parallels Workstation Installing Parallels Workstation in Linux This section describes installing Parallels Workstation in Linux primarily operating systems and all the related operations 28 Error No text of specified style in document Parallels Workstation for Linu
130. information on the formats of virtual disks see Virtual Disk Formats topic page 16 Add Hardware Wizard Specify hard disk options Specify hard disk size and format Please specify a preferred virtual disk size E e000 MB xj Select disk format Expanding recommended Disk image file i small initially and grows as you add more data to the virtual machine This disk format takes less time to create and saves disk space on the host C Plain Disk image file consumes all the allocated space right from the start It takes mare time to create but allows quest OS to operate Faster 144 Error No text of specified style in document 5 Inthe Select an image file dialog box specify the location for the hard disk image file For the newly created disk you can use the default folder or choose another one using the button If you choose to use an existing file in the Step 3 specify the location of the existing image file in this dialog box Click Finish Add Hardware Wizard Select an image file Where do vau want to store the hard disk image File Please specify a location of the hard disk image file C Documents and Sethngs tatianarhy D acumentssles Fam Iyasdisk 3 hd Adding a CD DVD ROM Drive Note In Linux primary OS you must have root privileges to connect the virtual machine s CD DVD drive to a real CD DVD ROM drive Otherwise the real device will not appear in the list of available devices e
131. ion Editor click Add to launch Add Hardware Wizard Configuring a Virtual Machine 159 2 In the Select hardware dialog box select Parallel Port in the Available Hardware list and click Next Add Hardware Wizard 5 elect hardware What type of hardware do vou want to install Please use the list of available hardware to select a type of hardware you want to install RUSSIE You can add either configured ar non canfigured device To add a Hard Disk configured device click Next button amp CD DvD R UM au disc in 1 canfiquration dialogs LIEhermeise clic Floppy Add device instantly button After that Sound vau will be able to configure device manually P Parallel Part e LIS B Controller Add device instantly 3 Inthe Select device type dialog box specify the type of device for emulating a parallel port To emulate with a socket select the Use a physical parallel port option and click Next To use an output text file select the Use an output file option and click Next 160 Error No text of specified style in document To use a printer select the Use a printer option and click Next Add Hardware Wizard Select device type What media type should be associated with the virtual Parallel Port Please specify how you would like to emulate a Parallel Port C3 Use an output file CO Use a printer 4 If you selected the Use a physical parallel port option in the next dialog box you should select
132. irtual Machine 03 5 Make sure the CD ROM is mounted 6 Change the directory to the CD ROM and start the installer by entering sh parallels tools run Note You must have root privileges to run the command Wait while Parallels Tools are being installed 7 Restart the virtual machine Troubleshooting For successful functioning of some of Parallels Tools the prluserd service is needed The service must be started on the guest OS startup In most Linux guest OSes the appropriate command is added to the startup script automatically during the installation of Parallels Tools To check that the service 1s running enter the following command ps A grep prluserd If the startup scripts in your system are bsd like e g slackware zenwalk you have to run prluserd manually or add the command which starts the prluserd service to the init script You must have root privileges to run the service Installing Solaris Network Driver Unlike other guest OSes Solaris does not support the RTL8029 network driver emulated in virtual machines To add RTL 8029 support to a Solaris virtual machine you need to install the RTL8029 network adapter driver We have created the special network sh script that helps you to do this or you may install and configure the driver manually Both ways are described below Before Installing the Driver Before installing the driver perform the following steps 1 Make sure that the virtual machine configuration in
133. irtual machine can be powered on only if you activated your copy of the Parallels Workstation with permanent or trial activation key See the Activating Parallels Workstation page 26 section To start a virtual machine 1 Start Parallels Workstation See Starting Parallels Workstation in Windows on page 26 or Starting Parallels Workstation in Linux page 29 Select a virtual machine from the Startup dialog Open a virtual machine Property Page Do one of the following Click the Power On p button on the Parallels Workstation toolbar 92 Error No text of specified style in document Select Power On in the VM menu The virtual machine will be turned on and you will see the boot process of the guest OS on the virtual machine console Note It is not recommended that you start your virtual machines from an external storage device this may result in low performance and unsteady operation Troubleshooting In Windows Primary OS If when starting a virtual machine in Windows primary OS you receive the warning Parallels Workstation has detected that your primary operating system is running in PAE mode this means that your host computer configuration does not conform to Parallels Workstation requirements The current version of Parallels Workstation supports up to 4 GB PAE only To bypass this problem Follow Parallels Workstation dialog boxes to create a new configuration with 4 GB PAE Boot into this confi
134. isk page 113 topic Running a Virtual Machine 115 Setting up a Printer in a Virtual Machine There are three ways of configuring printing in a virtual machine Setting up a network printer We recommend that you use this method since it ensures more stable work Connecting a virtual machine s parallel port to a physical parallel port on your computer to which a printer 1s connected For this edit the settings on the Parallel Port Options tab in Configuration Editor In Windows primary OS two options are available Use printer and Use port We recommend that you select the Use printer option Parallels Workstation will create a printer job and the primary OS will execute it In the Linux primary OS only the Use port option is available When using this method Parallels Workstation itself controls the printer job Setting up a USB printer Configuring a virtual machine for each method of printing 1s described below Setting Up a Network Printer Before installing a network printer in the guest OS make sure that the following requirements are met Networking in your primary operating system is configured Virtual machine configuration includes the network adapter which is connected to a real network adapter of your computer See the Network Adapter Options topic on page 131 Make sure that the Enabled and the Connect at startup options are selected in the Emulation group the Bridged Ethernet option is selected
135. l enables you to work with dynamic resolution When you switch to Full Screen mode the guest OS window resolution changes automatically Network Adapters and Drivers Parallels Tools provide the following adapters Parallels Network Adapter This Ethernet driver for the RTL8029 adapter is specially developed for Parallels Workstation to improve network performance We recommend that you install this driver whenever possible RTL8029 The image of CD with Parallels Tools includes native Realtek drivers for the RTL8029 network adapter for many different operating systems except Solaris They are located in the Drivers Network RTL8029 folder of the vmtools iso CD image Some guest operating systems such as Windows 2000 provide an RTL8029 driver whereas others like Windows 2003 and OS 2 do not include this driver at all Note Unlike other guest OSes a Solaris guest OS requires an RTL8029 compatible driver to support networking Otherwise networking will not be unavailable 78 Error No text of specified style in document An RTL8029 compatible driver for Solaris was created by an independent developer and is distributed under the terms of BSD license A slightly modified version of this driver 1s included into the Parallels Tools Shared Folders Tool This tool is needed for a guest OS to view shared folders in the primary operating system To learn more about shared folders see Using Shared Folders page 184 Sound Driver
136. lled By default it is C Program Files Parallels Parallels Workstation Creating a Virtual Machine 77 Parallels Tools Overview Clipboard Synchronization Tool Clipboard Synchronization Tool synchronizes the guest OS clipboard and the primary OS clipboard thus making the exchange of texts and pictures via clipboard possible Currently you can transfer only text up to 128KB in size If you enable Clipboard Synchronization Tool in each of your guest OSes they will share the same clipboard with the primary OS In all the Windows guest OSes this tool is installed automatically when you perform Parallels Tools installation In OS 2 and eComStation you must install it manually Disk Compacting Tool Parallels Workstation uses virtual hard disks of two types plain and expanding Expanding virtual disks grow in size as you work with them Disk Compacting Tool cleans up unused space on an expanding virtual disk and reduces the size of that disk in the primary OS See Compacting Virtual Disk page 113 for guidelines on using this tool Note This tool does not reduce the size of plain virtual disks Mouse Synchronization Tool Mouse Synchronization Tool provides automatic capture of the mouse input each time the pointer goes over the guest OS window and automatic release of the mouse input when the pointer moves out of the guest OS window This tool also makes pointer movements smoother Dynamic Resolution Tool Dynamic Resolution Too
137. ls Tools folder and open it By default the file is stored at C Program Files Parallels Parallels Tools Running a Virtual Machine 105 Clipboard Synchronization Tool Options Parallels Tools Center It Clipboard Synchronization Enabled a Time Synchronization Enabled B videa Driver Enabled Enabled ca Mouse Synchronization Enabled 9 Network Driver Enabled E Disk Compacting Enabled 53 Shared Folders Enabled En UM NC Status Clipboard Synchronization Options Status Current clipboard content Description The Clipboard Synchronization syncs the quest OS clipboard and primary 15 clipboard allowing you to easily exchange texts and pictures between the primary OS and guest OS Status Enabled option shows the current status of the Clipboard Synchronization Tool To temporarily disable this tool clear this check box You can enable the Clipboard Synchronization Tool by selecting this option later Current clipboard content The clipboard content is displayed in this field The Clear button is used to empty the clipboard Description Displays a short description of the tool For a complete description see the Parallels Tools Overview page 77 Saving Changes After you have made the desired changes on the tab do one of the following Click the Apply button to activate changes and choose another tab for editing Click the OK button to activate changes and close Parallels Tools Center
138. ls command Anyway the vmtools iso CD image will be connected to the virtual machine CD ROM drive although it is not visible to the user To solve this problem do one of the following Enable AUTORUN function for CD ROM drive in guest Windows Start tools installation manually Open the contents of the vmtools iso in Windows Explorer find Pr1Tools exe file and start it Troubleshooting when installing Tools If after you choose the Install Parallels Tools command from the VM menu the installation of Parallels Tools doesn t start automatically follow these steps 1 Make sure that the vmtools iso file is connected to the virtual machine CD ROM drive 2 Start Tools installation manually For this open the contents of the vmtools iso in Windows Explorer find Pr1Tools exe file and double click it to start it Installing Sound Driver in Windows 98 The Sound Driver for a Windows 98 guest OS must be installed manually after the general Parallels Tools installation 1s complete To install AC 97 Sound Driver in Windows 98 1 Open the Control Panel To do this click the system Start menu select Settings and then Control Panel 2 Double click the System icon to open the System Properties window Creating a Virtual Machine 81 Select the Device Manager tab Locate the PCI Multimedia Audio Device in the hardware list Select it and click the Properties button In the PCI Multimedia Audio Device Properties window click
139. lt options Configuring a Virtual Machine 141 Click the Next button to configure the device you are going to add Add Hardware Wizard 5 elect hardware What type of hardware do vou want to install Please use the list of available hardware to select a type of hardware you want to install You can add either configured or i non configured device To add Hard Disk configured device click Mest button 2 ED D VD ROM and go through the set of 3 configuration dialogs Othenwise click Fi Floppy Add device instantly button After that e sound vau will be able ta configure device MH Serial Port manually CH Parallel Part e USE Controller Available Hardware Add device instantly 5 Follow the wizard windows to configure the new device For details on configuring specific devices see the topics below in this section Options for different devices are also described in the Editing Virtual Machine Configuration on page 118 section Adding Hard Disks To add one or more virtual hard disks to your virtual machine use Add Hardware Wizard You can add a new disk or add an existing hard disk image If you are going to add a new blank virtual disk do not forget to format it as a file system compatible with the guest operating system If you are going to add an existing virtual disk image as a data disk make sure the file systems are compatible To add a virtual hard disk 1 In Configuration Editor click Add to launch Add H
140. m Files Parallels Parallels Work stationdek1 hdd Click Next 6 In the Review processing options window carefully review the settings If everything is correct click the Start button to create an image of the specified real hard disk 7 After the disk image has been created click Exit in the Processing is completed dialog box Modifying an Existing Hard Disk Image The modifying operations can be performed only when the source image file is not in use by any of the running virtual machines Checking the Disk Format Before modifying the disk make sure that you know the format of the disk The format of the disk can be either plain or expanding To check the disk s format 1 Open the configuration of any virtual machine that includes this virtual hard disk 194 Error No text of specified style in document 2 In Configuration Editor open the Advanced page 127 tab of the Hard Disk Options 3 Disk format is specified in the Disk format field To learn more about virtual hard disk formats see Virtual Disk Formats page 16 topic Modifying an Existing Hard Disk Image 1 Start Parallels Image Tool 2 The Welcome dialog box appears If you want to skip this dialog box next time you run the Image Tool select the Skip Introduction next time option Click Next 3 Inthe Select device type dialog box select the Hard Disk Drive option and click Next r5 Parallels Image Tool Select device type Please select type of data
141. m a viral Machine our o Decet ia Dedi uat io Santa tes A ER cata tc OM Ta ameter eae 178 Deleuns a Virtuale De soot eniin eite SI EB d eae RES HORS Ieb adducet iSo boU dede classe ERR v so aes sete 181 Usmo Share b olet ur ccesatoss tended R densa asodbuad eat E EIUS ccn METUO SUUM MEUSE 184 Setting Parallels Workstation Preferences To edit user preferences choose Preferences from the Edit menu The preferences on the Memory and Network tabs affect all the users that work on the computer and all the virtual machines The other preferences may be different for each user 170 Error No text of specified style in document Common Preferences Settings on this tab can be different for each user of your computer Preferences Common Memor Network User Interface Hot keys Workspace Default directory for virtual machines tart Penusy Documents Parallels Virtual Machine Load recently used VM at startup Show startup dialog Automatically check for updates Ve Shutdown Behavior Default action to perform on application exit C3 Suspend VM O Power Off 9 Ask me what to do Workspace Default directory for virtual machines Use this field to specify a default folder that Parallels Workstation will use to store the new configuration files and hard disk images It is possible to choose other location when creating a configuration file or a virtual hard disk Two options Load recently used VM at startup and S
142. m about this problem Wie have created a report that you can send us Report files are stored in the following directory C Program FilessParallelskParallels W orkstationXB ugreports Report data The following files are included in this report Technical data Parallels 2006 7 10 18 12 30 bet Session screenshot Parallels 2006 7 10 16 12 30 pg If possible please describe additional error details using the Problem description box below Press Ok button when vau Finish Send repart to reports aparallels corn Troubleshooting and Limitations 215 The Technical data field shows the name of the txt status report file that has been generated for the error The status report holds information on the product version or build number product activation data the primary and guest OSes information processor status and so on You can edit the data if necessary Click View to open the report in the text editor The Session screenshot field holds the name of the jpg file of console screen shot created at the moment the error occurred To view the screen shot click the View button You may add a short description of the error situation in the Problem description box the description will be added to the report text file when you click the OK button The names of status report and screen shot files have the following format the same in Windows and Linux operating systems parallels vyyy mm dd hhimmss bExt Jpg To s
143. mode If this option is selected resolution of your host monitor is changed to the resolution of the guest OS when a virtual machine is in full screen mode Note that this option has lower priority than the previous one so if both are selected this option affects the resolution only when the Allow to change guest resolution in fullscreen mode option can not be applied Help browser Note This group of options is available only in Linux primary OSes 176 Error No text of specified style in document Help Browser Executable field shows the path to an executable file of a web browser used to display the online help for Parallels Workstation By default help is displayed in Mozilla web browser If it is not installed on your computer or you prefer another browser locate its executable file using the Browse button Restore hidden messages Parallels Workstation informs you about certain operations or situations by displaying appropriate messages As a rule a message dialog has message text and the Do not show this message again check box If you select this option next time when the same situation occurs the message will not be displayed The Restore Hidden Messages button allows you to reactivate all the suppressed messages The system does not allow suppressing messages that report potentially dangerous situations Hot Key Combinations Hot key combinations can be different for each user of your computer Preferences
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145. n Options Autoconnect USB devices Select this option if you want the running virtual machine to capture new USB devices connected to the host computer Configuring a Virtual Machine 139 Adding and Removing Devices If you want to change the virtual machine configuration remove virtual devices using Configuration Editor and add new devices to the virtual machine with the help of Add Hardware Wizard Virtual machine configuration can include the following devices up to four IDE devices virtual hard disks and CD DVD ROM drives at least one is required one floppy drive one network adapter up to four serial ports upto three parallel ports a sound device a USB controller Note If the guest operating systems cannot automatically recognize a new device use the means of the guest operating system to make a new device visible to it Add Hardware Wizard New devices are added using Add Hardware Wizard The wizard allows you to add only one device at a time If the VM configuration already includes the maximum number of devices of a particular type this type of device will not appear in the Available Hardware list For instance only one floppy drive is allowed Such devices as CD DVD ROM or floppy disk drives can be connected to real drives or to virtual media If you add a floppy drive a new blank fdd 1mage can be created and at the same time connected to the drive When adding a virtual hard disk you c
146. n file Please specify a virtual machine name and location of the virtual machine contiguration file Virtual machine name Configuration file C Documents and Settings Lisanthy D acumentssParallels Virtual Machines Click Finish If the folder does not exist confirm the new folder creation Click Yes New configuration file will be created and opened in the Parallels Workstation window Installing Guest OS This section discusses how to install an operating system in a virtual machine Creating a Virtual Machine 73 Installing a Guest Operating System Before you start the installation of the guest operating system create the virtual machine configuration and connect the guest OS installation media to the virtual machine The following installation media can be used CD DVD ROMs floppy disks ISO images of CD DVD ROMs FDD images of floppy disks Some operating systems are distributed on ISO image files Generally the installation is performed faster if the image files are used ISO images of CD DVD ROMs and FDD images of floppy disks can be created with the help of Parallels Image Tool installed along with Parallels Workstation For more information please refer to the Using the Parallels Image Tool page 187 chapter Note In Linux primary OS you must have root privileges to access the physical CD DVD ROM or floppy drives of your host computer from inside the virtual machine General Step
147. n the installation IF you want to review or change any of your installation settings click Back Click Cancel to exit the wizard nstal Cancel Installing Parallels Workstation 25 8 If your Windows system is configured to warn you each time an unsigned driver is installed you will see the following message Parallels Workstation Par sels Workstation inetalistion contains a number of urcigned divers These drivers are required for proper Functioning of Parallels Workstation Currently your system is configured to wam you every time an unsigned driver is installed Do you want to receive these warnings during Parallels Workstation installation EE T DATES icti se erede Diii TF you cick Cancel the viarmings will be daplayed Click Continue when an ureigned warning cawe Click OK to disable the unsigned driver warnings during Parallels Workstation installation They will be re enabled later when the installation is complete If your system is configured to block the unsigned drivers installation you will receive the similar message prompting you to allow installation of these drivers Click OK Otherwise Parallels Workstation cannot be installed at all 9 You can see the installation progress shown in the Setup Status dialog box 10 When Parallels Workstation is installed the following dialog box appears Click Finish to exit the installer Parallels Workstation Installation completed Setup has successfully
148. n the tab do one of the following Click the Apply button to activate changes and choose another tab for editing Click the OK button to activate changes and close Parallels Tools Center 110 Error No text of specified style in document Disk Compacting Tool Options Parallels Tools Center Tool Status Disk Compacting E Clipboard Synchronization Enabled a Time Synchronization Enabled IBI Video Driver Enabled Volume Capacity Free space em Mouse Synchronization Enabled a C 7QgBh Mb 5723 Mb 3 Network Driver Enabled Status e Disk Compacting Enabled Shared Falders Enabled _ Execute all stages at once Description Expanding virtual hard disks grow in size as you work with them The Disk Compacting reduces the size of expanding virtual hard disks by cleaning up unused disk space Plain virtual disks are not affected by the compacting operation The compacting procedure consists of the two stages 4 preparation step performed in the quest 05 and a compacting step performed in the primary OS IF vau want to proceed ta compacting virtual disk files immediately after the preparation step is completed select the Execute all stages at once checkbox Status The field displays the list of volumes located on the expanding virtual hard disks connected to the virtual machine and formatted to Windows file systems Volumes formatted to other file systems are not displayed even though they can be physically l
149. nd USB For more information please refer to the Changing Configuration at Runtime page 98 section Text Size Parallels Workstation provides options for adjusting text size of the Property Page Use the Increase Text Size and Decrease Text Size commands in the Text Size submenu of the View menu To restore the initial text size choose the Reset Text Size command 56 Error No text of specified style in document About Parallels Workstation Window The About Parallels Workstation window is displayed when you choose About Parallels Workstation from the Help menu It provides the information about your copy of Parallels Workstation licensing information and support information About Parallels Workstation Parallels Parallels Workstation for Windows Version 2 2 Build 2055 Beta 07 09 2006 C 2005 2006 Parallels Software International Inc Parallels is a registered trademark of Parallels Software International Inc This product is based on a technology that is the subject matter of a number of pending patent applications Licensing Information This i an active copy of Parallels Workstation It is licensed to Name Mame of the company Support Information Technical support page http iw parallels corm support Interface Basics 57 Licensing Information Shows the activation status and the name of the person whom this copy is licensed to Support Information Contains the contact information of the
150. ndows Parallels Desktop allows you to control the status of Parallels Tools in the Windows guest OSes The Parallels Tools Center which is installed along with Parallels Tools allows you to check the status of various tools temporarily disable and enable each tool separately for those tools that can be stopped without interfering with the guest OS execution configure specific tool for tools that have options Note Parallels Tools Center is available in Windows guest OSes only The Parallels Tools Center window contains a set of tabs Each tab contains settings for one tool For the specific guest OS Parallels Tools Center contains tabs only for tools that available for the guest OS Parallels Tools Center is launched automatically upon startup of the guest OS and its icon is placed into the guest OS system tray Installing Parallels Tools Center Parallels Tools Center is installed along with Parallels Tools Refer to the Installing Parallels Tools section page 76 for details Upgrading If you upgraded Parallels Workstation you have to upgrade Parallels Tools installed in the existing virtual machines See Upgrading Parallels Tools page 86 Opening Parallels Tools Center To open Parallels Tools Center click its icon Ll in the guest OS system tray Restarting Parallels Tools Center To restart Parallels Tools Center after it was temporary stopped Locate the ParallelsToolsCenter exe file in the Paralle
151. ne Refer to description of options to the Network Adapter Options topic on page 131 Add Hardware Wizard Select a type of networking What type of network do you want to use with this virtual machine Please specify what kind of networking vau want to add to the virtual machine Use this option if you need to connect your virtual machine to Local or Wide Area Network C3 Host only Networking Use this option if you want to create private network shared with the host C3 Shared Networking Use this option if you need to provide Network Address Translation feature to your virtual machine 4 Ifyou selected the Bridged Ethernet option in the dialog box select the real network adapter to use and specify if you want to have the adapter connected when the virtual machine starts If you selected other option proceed to Step 5 Click Next Add Hardware Wizard Select real adapter Which real network interface should be connected to the physical network Please select a real network interface which should be connected to the virtual machine Specity if the virtual machine should assume the network cable connected at power an Connect cable at startup Configuring a Virtual Machine 153 5 Inthe Specify virtual adapter dialog box click Finish The Adapter type field displays the type of virtual adapter available in the virtual machine Add Hardware Wizard Specify virtual adapter Please specify virtual network ada
152. net Host only networking and Shared Networking Bridged Ethernet networking is used to access local network and the Internet via physical Ethernet adapter of your computer A virtual machine will get its own IP address and will appear on the network as a separate computer If the Bridged Ethernet option is selected the Network Adapters drop down list will show all physical network adapters available on your computer Choose one of them to connect to your virtual adapter 132 Error No text of specified style in document The list of available adapters includes the Default adapter that is always mapped to the Ethernet adapter With Default adapter selected you don t have to stop the virtual machine and select the currently active adapter when you switch from using a wired connection to wireless one Host only networking option allows emulating network inside your computer accessible only to the primary OS and the virtual machines running in it It is helpful in case you don t want to access the network outside your local computer or when you don t have any physical network interface card IP addresses for machines in a host only network are provided by Parallels DHCP server connected to Parallels Host Guest adapter DHCP server is started automatically whenever you launch Parallels Workstation The Parallels Host Guest adapter is installed along with Parallels Workstation Network Adapter Advanced Options Configuration Editor
153. nne nennen 114 Setting up a Printer in a Virtual Machine eeessseseeeeeesseeeeesseeee nennen nennen nennen 115 90 Error No text of specified style in document Overview When you start a virtual machine its Property Page transforms into the virtual machine console and acts as a display of a real computer refer to Console View on page 51 You must capture your keyboard and mouse input in the console window by clicking anywhere in the window after that you can work in the guest OS To release the mouse and keyboard input from the guest OS to the primary OS press Ctr1 Alt Parallels Workstation controls such as the toolbar and the menu allow you to control the virtual machine when it is running in window mode You may also run the virtual machine in full screen mode when Parallels Workstation controls and the primary operating system are not visible While working in window mode Parallels Workstation controls let you to do the following Start turn off and reset virtual machine Pause or suspend virtual machine Switch between the guest OS and the primary OS Connect and disconnect devices at runtime and change media connected to them Temporarily disable Parallels Tools Center in a Windows guest OS if you installed Parallels Tools Switch to full screen mode and back View the Property Page of the virtual machine Configuration Editor is not available while the virtual machine is running
154. nstallation wizard Welcome window click Next 2 Inthe License Agreement window use either the PageDown key or the DownArrow V key on your keyboard to read the entire agreement Select accept the terms of the license agreement and click Next Installing Parallels Workstation 21 You may print the license agreement for your records using the Print button Parallels Workstation License Agreement Please read the following license agreement carefully End User License Agreement Far Parallels RH Workstation PARALLELS SOFTWARE INTERNATIONAL INC LICENSES THIS SOFTWARE PRODUCT TO YOU SUBJECT TO THE TERMS CONTAINED IN THIS END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT AGREEMENT READ THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS AGREEMENT CAREFULLY BEFORE INSTALLING COPYING AND USING THIS COMPUTER SOFTWARE AND THE ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTATION THE SUFPWARE THE SOFTWARE IS COPYRIGHTED AND IT IS LICENSED TO YOU UNDER THIS AGREEMENT NOT SOLD TO YOU BY INSTALLING COPYING OF OTHERWISE USING THE SOFTWARE YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THIS EULA IF VOU ARE NOT WILLING TO BE BOUND By THE TERMS OF THIS s 1 do not accept the terms of the license agreement 3 If you are re installing or updating Parallels Workstation proceed to step 4 In other cases you will see the Customer Information window In the Customer Information window enter your Activation key and specify the User Name Click Next The Company Name field is optional To skip the activati
155. nts and SethingsLisarnthy Docume Vh home directory CADocuments and Settings Lis4nshy Docume s in gt 4 The wizard removes the selected files from your hard disk and informs you that the Operation was completed successfully The virtual machine is considered to be successfully deleted if all the selected components or all selected components except the home folder if it was chosen for deleting have been removed If the home folder contains any files the folder will not be deleted 184 Error No text of specified style in document Click Exit to close the wizard Delete Virtual Machine Wizard Deletion was completed Wizard has finished delete operation Virtual machine was successfully deleted After the virtual machine is deleted a blank VM is opened in the Parallels Workstation window The deleted machine is be removed from the list of recently used configurations in the File menu Using Shared Folders Shared folders are folders in the primary operating system that are visible to the guest OS too These folders can be used for exchanging files between the primary OS and a virtual machine or between several virtual machines In the primary OS shared folders appear as usual folders while in the guest OS they are objects of the network neighborhood Using shared folders is possible for the following guest OSes Window 2000 XP 2003 Vista Setting Up a Shared Folder Setting up a shared folder requires t
156. ocated on an expanding virtual hard disk Select the volumes to be processed by the Disk Compacting Tool Execute all stages at once Select this option if you want to perform both stages of the disk compacting at once See the description of the two stages in the Compacting Virtual Disk topic page 113 Start button starts the process of compacting for the selected volumes Description Displays a short description of the tool See the detailed description in the Compacting Virtual Disk topic page 113 Saving Changes After you have made the desired changes on the tab do one of the following Click the Apply button to activate changes and choose another tab for editing Click the OK button to activate changes and close Parallels Tools Center Shared Folders Options Parallels Tools Center Tool fel Clipboard Synchronization a Time Synchronization IBI Video Driver C3 Mouse Synchronization 9 Network Driver E Disk Compacting Shared Folders Status Status Enabled Enabled Enabled Enabled Enabled Enabled Enabled Running a Virtual Machine Shared Folders Options Status Advanced options Place shortcut on the desktop Description Shared folders are Folders in your primary OS file system that are visible to the quest 05 also These folders are used for exchanging files between the primary OS and virtual machine or between several virtual machines To assign shared folders Far thi
157. of RAM the virtual machine will use choose the disk size and format if you want to create a new one specify name and location of an existing virtual disk of any format choose not to add a hard disk at all select the type of networking in the virtual machine define a name of the virtual machine the name for the virtual machine s configuration file and a folder to store it The CD DVD ROM drive floppy drive and sound device with exceptions for some guest OSes are added automatically Serial ports are added for OS 2 guest OS You can add necessary devices later with the help of Configuration Editor Blank Configuration Blank virtual machine has only memory in its configuration Such virtual machine can be used with a Live CD Devices can be added to blank configuration with the help of Configuration Editor CHAPTER 7 Typical Configurations A typical virtual machine includes the following virtual hardware memory a hard disk drive a floppy disk drive a CD DVD ROM drive a network adapter a sound device except for FreeBSD and MS DOS configurations a USB controller in Windows 98 ME 2000 XP 2003 and in all of the Linux typical configurations The typical configuration for OS 2 includes a serial port The amount of memory and hard disk size vary for different guest OSes The following table contains the memory amounts and hard disk sizes for different guest operating systems The virtual hard disk for
158. of your real computer Open the virtual machine configuration in Configuration Editor make sure that the configuration includes a parallel port add it if necessary On the Parallels Port Options tab the Enabled and the Connect at startup options are selected Specify the way of emulating the parallel port in the Emulation group Inthe Windows primary OS we recommend that you select the Use printer method it is not available in Linux primary OSes The Printers list displays list of printers available in the primary OS Specify which one you want to use In the Linux primary OS select the Use port option and then specify the real port of your physical computer to which the printer is connected in the LPT port list Save the virtual machine configuration see Saving Virtual Machine Configuration page 119 and start the guest operating system Install the driver for your printer in the guest OS We recommend that you use the native driver Setting Up a USB Printer To set up an USB printer 1 Open the virtual machine configuration in the Configuration Editor on page 118 and make sure that the configuration includes a USB controller add it if necessary Open the USB Options page 138 and make sure that the Enabled option is selected Select the Autoconnect at startup if you want the printer to be automatically captured by the virtual machine Save the virtual machine configuration see Saving Virtual Machine Config
159. ointer movements smoother Time Synchronization Tool Time Synchronization Tool enables you to configure time settings on your guest OS With this tool you can synchronize time between your host and guest OS set up and maintain time difference between your host and guest OS Note If you installed other time synchronization software please stop it before installing Parallels Tools in order to avoid potential conflicts The table below lists available configuration options for this tool Turn off Time Synchronization Tool for this guest OS Set the synchronization interval for the guest OS to synchronize its time with the primary OS The interval is measured in seconds and varies from to 3600 seconds Set a certain time difference between your primary OS and your guest Linux OS The option has the following values lt seconds gt used to set up a positive value so that the guest OS time goes ahead of the primary OS time n lt seconds gt used to set up a negative value so that the guest OS time goes behind the primary OS time Running a Virtual Machine 113 To configure Time Synchronization Tool you must edit the prluserd script Be default the script is located at usr lib parallels prluserd Specify the desired option as the OPTS parameter and restart your virtual machine As the prluserd script runs at the virtual machine booting it will automatically adjust the time settings Note You must have root privil
160. omputer must be connected to the Internet Note If you have a firewall and or another antivirus software installed in your primary operating system please configure them properly to allow Parallels Workstation to perform checks Configuring Auto Update You can specify the frequency of update checks i e daily weekly or monthly in the Automatically checks for update option on the Common page 170 tab of the Preferences dialog box Auto update checks can be disabled by selecting Never for the same option You can enable the auto update feature later Update Wizard in Windows Updates for Parallels Workstation for Windows can be downloaded using Parallels Update Wizard The wizard accesses the Parallels update server checks if a later version than the one currently installed is available downloads the latest version if any and starts the installation To use this feature your primary operating system must be connected to the Internet To update Parallels Workstation 1 Start the Parallels Update Wizard either by selecting Check for Updates in the Help menu or by selecting All Programs Parallels Folder Check for Updates in the Windows Start menu Updating Parallels Workstation 35 2 Inthe Welcome dialog box click Next to proceed Parallels Update Wizard Welcome to the Parallels Update Wizard This wizard allows you ta keep Parallels Workstation software up to date E will quide vau through the
161. on click the Activate later button You can activate the product when it is installed by choosing Activate Product from the Help menu To purchase a permanent activation key in the Parallels online store click the Buy button Click Next To get a trial activation key you need to register on the Parallels web site To register on the Parallels web site click the Register on Site button 22 Error No text of specified style in document Note The Customer Information dialog box may not appear if you reinstall Parallels Workstation Parallels Workstation Customer Information Please enter the product activation key your name and the name of Your campanu fou must activate your copy of Parallels Workstation to be able to start a virtual machine Click Buy button to purchase a permanent activation key or click Register on site button to obtain a free trial activation key Activation Kep User Mame pT Company Name Register on site cite laa 4 In the Choose Destination Location dialog box specify the folder where Parallels Workstation will be installed and click Next If you do not want to install to the default folder click the Change button to specify another one Installing Parallels Workstation 23 Note Parallels Workstation must be installed on the boot volume Parallels Workstation Choose Destination Location Select folder where setup will install files Setup will install Parallels Wo
162. ons Use them if you want the virtual machine s console window to occupy a certain part of the computer s screen Procedures of setting custom resolution are different in different guest OSes In Windows Guest OSes Parallels Workstation allows you to define up to 10 different resolutions for a Windows virtual machine and switch between them at runtime Note that the lowest possible resolution 1s 800x600 Adding a Screen Resolution 1 Open the virtual machine configuration you want to add a resolution to click the button Configuring a Virtual Machine 167 2 Inthe Configuration Editor select Video in the Resource list 3 On the Screen Resolutions tab see Video Screen Resolutions page 123 make sure the Enable custom screen resolutions option 1s selected 4 Click the Add button L to open the Resolution Properties dialog box 5 In the Resolution Properties dialog box set the desired resolution options in the Width pixels and Height pixels fields Note that the width value must be specified in multiples of 8 select Enabled if you want this resolution to be available for selection in the guest OS click OK Add Screen Resolution Resolution Properties Width pixels Height pixels x 6 Click OK in the Configuration Editor 7 Click to save the virtual machine s configuration Switching Screen Resolutions at Runtime To change screen resolution for the running virtual machine Select the
163. ooting Options VM Flags 0 ptio nz Windows AP Ge Shared Folders folders 0 enabled VM Identification Video 0 items 0 enabled Essi Memory 256 MB E Floppy A E Hard Disk 1 enn MB C Documents a amp LD D VvD RO0 Di Sw insP SP2 isn e Network Adap Bridged Ethernet Sound Default sound playback de 05 Type OS Version Windows XP ka Virtual Machine Name Guest 05 Type 120 Error No text of specified style in document VM Identification Virtual Machine Name field displays the name of the machine that was specified when the VM was created The field is editable The name must not exceed 50 symbols This name is also displayed on the Property Page page 49 of the virtual machine Guest OS Type OS Type and OS Version fields display the type of operating system that was specified when the virtual machine was created it doesn t matter whether the operating system was installed or not Please specify the type of OS correctly If the type of guest OS on this tab does not match the type of operating system actually installed this may cause problems varying from slow performance to machine failure Booting Options Configuration Editor Resource Description General Options Booting Options vt Flags 157 Options L Shared Folders Video Li Memon 7 Floppy E Hard Disk 1 CD DVD RO amp 3 Network Adap e Sound
164. ooting Options tab page 120 of the General Options Configuring a Virtual Machine 131 Network Adapter Options The current version of Parallels Workstation supports a RTL8029 NE2000 compatible PCI card network adapter In a Linux guest OS to provide an access to external network from inside the virtual machine make sure the Linux kernel includes the ne2k pci driver In a FreeBSD guest OS you need to have the if ed ko module loaded Configuration Editor Resource Description Network Adapter Options Advanced 1 Options Windows F Lg Shared Folders 4 folders 3 enabled ges IBI Video O items 0 enabled Fl Memory 812 MB E Hard Disk 1 32000 ME C Documents Connect cable at startup S CD DVD ROM 1 D e Network Adapter Bridged Ethernet E mulation 5 Bridged Ethernet Network Adapters Default Adapter m C2 Host only networking Remove Ok Device Status If you wish to temporarily disable network support in the virtual machine without deleting the network adapter from configuration clear the Enabled check box When the Enabled check box is selected the options and fields for configuring the network become active Ifthe network adapter is enabled you can select Connect at startup check box to start the guest OS with network adapter connected Emulation In the Emulation group you can select the type of network adapter to be used in your guest OS There are three options Bridged Ether
165. ound piaba O Use port O Use pinter 9 Use output file 9 UsB Controller Autoconmect On SA Output File COM C sDacuments and Settir C Documents and SettingsselenansStart MenuMy id Emulation Remove a Comes Hee _ Configuring a Virtual Machine 135 Device status If you wish to temporarily disable operations with a parallel port without deleting it from configuration clear the Enabled option If the parallel port is enabled it can be connected or disconnected while the VM is running Note If you start the operating system with the parallel port disabled you cannot change this option when the virtual machine is running If you have enabled a port you can select the Connect at startup option to start the guest OS with this port connected Emulation Parallels Workstation provides three methods of emulating parallel port in Windows primary OS and two methods in Linux Use port option for connecting to a physical LPT port If you select this option the drop down LPT Port list displays the real LPT ports available on your computer Select one of them to connect to the virtual port Notes In Linux primary OS you must have root privileges to connect the real device Otherwise the real parallel port will not appear in the list of available devices even if it 1s installed on your computer 2 Running a virtual machine with its parallel port connected to a real LPT port blocks the access
166. our name and the company name in the User Name and Company Name fields By default the information 1s taken from the Windows operating system These fields are optional Activate Product x Activation Kep Uer Alem Company Mame CompanyName Licenze information This copy of Parallels Workstation rs currently not active Please click Buy Online button to purchase a permanent activation key or click Evaluate button to abtain a free trial activation key 3 If you entered a valid activation key the following message will be displayed Parallels Workstation has been activated successfully Thank you Now that your copy of the Parallels Workstation is activated you may use all of its features and capabilities Installing Parallels Workstation 27 If You Activated with a Permanent Key After you have activated your copy of Parallels Workstation with a permanent activation key you will be prompted to register the next time you start Parallels Workstation Parallels Workstation Welcome and thank vau for choosing Parallels Workstation Please click Register to instantly register your product online Click Hemind MMe Later if you re planning on registering but don t with to do so right now Chek Don t Ask Me Again if you prefer nat to register and do not want to see this message in the future Remind Me Later Don t Ask Me Again i Register Click the Register button to open the user registration onl
167. own command such as Start Shut Down or Start gt Turn off Computer in Windows It is STRONGLY RECOMMENDED that you shut down the machine in this way to ensure safety of your data Then close the application window Only if you are unable to stop the guest OS this way you may use the Parallels Workstation controls to stop or to reset it To stop the virtual machine anyway do one of the following Click the Power Off button on the Parallels Workstation toolbar Select Power Off from the VM menu The virtual machine will be stopped immediately Resetting a Virtual Machine First restart a guest operating system by using the guest OS restart command such as Start gt Shut Down Restart or Start Turn off Computer Restart in Windows It is STRONGLY RECOMMENDED that you restart the machine in this way to ensure safety of your data Only if you are unable to restart the guest OS this way you may use the Parallels Workstation controls to stop or to reset it To reset the virtual machine do one of the following Click the Reset e button on the Parallels Workstation toolbar Select Reset from the VM menu Press Ctr1 Alt Insert while the keyboard input is captured inside the virtual machine window Running a Virtual Machine 95 Pausing Virtual Machine When a virtual machine is paused the guest OS is stopped and the virtual machine process is removed from the CPU processes list The current sta
168. pacting The one stage disk compacting is used as a second stage of disk compacting procedure for Windows guest OSes described above or as the only one disk compacting procedure available for other guest OSes This disk compacting procedure is performed in the primary operating system it doesn t clean the unused space it only cuts off unused space from the image file thus reducing its size in the primary OS To perform disk compacting When the virtual machine is stopped click the Hard Disk link on the Configuration Page 2 Then click the Compact button on the Advanced tab of the Hard Disk Options While compacting is being performed the Compacting virtual hard disk dialog box is displayed 3 If there are several hard disks that you want to compact repeat Steps 1 2 for each expanding virtual disk Maintaining Virtual Hard Disks Virtual hard disks require periodic maintenance as physical hard disks do A file that stores an expanding disk has small size at the beginning of a virtual machine s life cycle and becomes larger as time goes on because each time writing to the disk 1s requested the system allocates new space and therefore disk size increases Deleting files does not reduce the size of a virtual disk file in the primary operating system Eventually an expanding virtual disk grows up to its maximum Size Parallels Workstation includes the Disk Compacting Tool For more information please refer to the Compacting Virtual D
169. pe Please select hype of an operation to be peitormed select an operation type to be performed with CD DVD ROM FTU ak osq C a Create new ISO mage of CD DVD Using Parallels Image Tool 211 6 On the Specify source and destination dialog box select the source device the CD DVD ROM drive and specify the destination folder and the name for the output disc image file Y ou may use the default name and location type the path and the file name directly into the field or use the Browse button to specify another location Click Next Fi Parallels Image Tool Specily source and destination Specily source image or device and deshnation path for the oulput data Tou ae going to create an ISI image of a real CD DV0 ROM Please select source CD DVD ROM dive 7 and specify destination path for the output ISO image Source and destination Source CD DVD ROM D Destination C Program Files Parallels Parallels Work stationscdrom iso 7 In the Review processing options dialog box carefully review the settings If everything is correct click the Start button to create a CD DVD disc image 8 While the operation is being performed the Execution in progress dialog box is displayed 212 Error No text of specified style in document 9 After the disk image has been created click Exit in the Processing is completed dialog box Fi Parallels Image Tool Processing is completed Image Tool has hrished execution
170. pecified style in document 4 In the Select operation type dialog box select the Maintain an existing Hard Disk image option On the Hard Disk actions pane in the lower part of the dialog box select Convert plain Hard Disk image to expanding Hard Disk image and click Next LM Parallels Image Tool Select operation type Please select lype of an operation to be performed Please select an operation type to be performed wath virtual hard disk Hard Disk operations Create new Hard Disk image Maintain an existing Hard Disk image Please select n action to execule Hard Disk actions O Increase size of Hard Disk image C Convert expanding Hard Disk image to plain Hard Disk image Defragment expanding Hard Disk image 5 In the Specify source and destination folder dialog box select the hard disk in the Source list You may type the path and the file name Alternatively click Choose locate and select the hard disk image Using Parallels Image Tool 199 Specify the name and location for the expanding copy of the hard disk image file in the Destination field Click Next 15 Parallels Image Tool Specily source and destination Specily source image or device and deshmation path for the oulput data ou ans going to convert plan virtual hard disk into expanding one Please select source virtual hand disk and deshnabion path for the output disk image Source and destination Sace 6 In the Review processing options dialo
171. pen the tab related to that device At the bottom of the Property Page there are the following buttons New VM button for creating a new virtual machine Open button for browsing hard disk for a virtual machine to open Edit button for opening Configuration Editor Save button for saving an open virtual machine configuration after changes were made Parallels Workstation allows you to set the text size for the property page that fits you the best See Text Size page 55 for details When the Guest OS is Running The Property Page remains available when the guest OS is running You may open it to view the VM configuration However editing of the configuration is prohibited the links and command buttons are disabled Interface Basics 51 Console View T winkp pys Parallels Workstation File Edit View VM Devices Help Recycle Bin u E Parallels Shared Folders pm wa x 4 10PM gUooeog 52 Error No text of specified style in document You interact with a running virtual machine via its Console window Guest OS window that appears in the main Workstation window once you start the virtual machine When the guest operating system is running all toolbar buttons and many of the menu commands become enabled You can switch between the Console and the Property Page views To switch to the Property Page while in the Console view do one of the following click the Property Page View Bd b
172. pports bridging to wireless network adapters Up to four serial COM ports mapped to real port pipe or output file Up to three parallel LPT ports mapped to physical port printer or output file two port USB 1 1 controller AC 97 compatible sound card Sound recording is supported generic PC keyboard PS 2 wheel mouse In the current version of Parallels Workstation real hard disks or partitions cannot be used as virtual hard disks in Parallels virtual machines Parallels Virtual Machines 13 Supported Guest Operating Systems The current version of Parallels Workstation officially supports the following guest operating systems Microsoft amp Windows Windows Vista Ultimate Enterprise Business Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition SPO SPI Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition SPO SP1 Windows Server 2003 Web Edition SPO SP1 Windows XP Professional SPO SP1 SP2 Windows XP Home SPO SP1 SP2 Windows 2000 Professional Edition SP4 Windows 2000 Server SP4 Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP4 Windows NT Workstation 4 0 SP6 Windows NT Server 4 0 SP6 Windows ME Windows 98 Windows 95 Windows 3 11 Windows 3 1 Linux Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS4 WS3 ES4 ES3 AS4 5 Red Hat Linux 9 8 7 3 Debian Linux 4 3 1 Fedora 8 7 Fedora Core Linux 5 4 3 6 7 SUSE Linux 10 2 10 1 10 9 3 9 2 9 1 9 0 Mandriva 2007 Ubuntu Linux 5 0 4 6 06 7 04 7 10 Xandros Linux 4 0 CentOS 2 3
173. process of checking downloading and installing available updates Cancel 3 The wizard checks when your copy of the Parallels Workstation was last updated and displays the exact date and time of the update Click Next to check for available updates S Parallels Update Wizard Seles Last update information Please review the information about last successful update Last update was done on 04 09 2006 17 06 20 To check for available updates click Next button Cancel 36 Error No text of specified style in document 4 Wait while the wizard is processing the information on the Parallels update server Parallels Update Wizard Checking for updates Please Walt while wizard is checking for updates Now wizard is accessing Internet to check for the list of available updates 5 If the wizard can not find a more recent version than the one that is currently installed it displays the following dialog box S Parallels Update Wizard Checkout is completed Your software i up to date Wizard has detected that you have the most recent Parallels Workstation software Click Finish Button to exit the wizard Click Finish to exit the wizard Updating Parallels Workstation 37 6 If the wizard finds a more recent version of Parallels Workstation its build number is displayed in the following dialog box S Parallels Update Wizard Aela List of updates Please select updates to download Wizard has detected th
174. ps include the following 1 In Configuration Editor on the Options gt Booting Options tab set the boot sequence to CD ROM Hard Disk Floppy On the Network Adapter Options tab set the adapter to the Bridged Ethernet mode Click OK to close Configuration Editor Save the changes in configuration 2 Start up the Ubuntu virtual machine It will boot from the CD DVD or its image At the prompt enter the following command rescue Select language of communication enter host name to configure network when prompted Wait until kernel components are loading Troubleshooting and Limitations 217 3 In the Enter rescue mode dialog select the option dev discs disco part1 root file system In case you used for disk partitioning and formatting other than default options select an option for the partition with root file system 4 Then on the same dialog select the option execute a shell in dev discs disco part1 When prompted click Continue to confirm the operation 5 At the shell prompt enter the following command apt get install linux 686 6 Wait while 686 kernel is being installed When it is finished to exit the shell prompt enter the following command exit 7 In the Enter rescue mode dialog select the option reboot the system and stop the virtual machine 8 Disconnect the installation CD DVD from your virtual machine Open Configuration Editor and set the boot sequence to Hard Disk CD ROM Floppy to let the virtual machin
175. pter appears in the appropriate field of the Current Configuration section of the window Now if you click Edit in the Current Configuration section of the window you will see that you do not need to configure any properties for this driver because it is self configurable 10 Click OK when finished 11 Close both the Configure and Multi Protocol Transport Services windows 12 Click Exit in the Update CONFIG SYS window 13 Exit the configuration program and restart the guest OS Upgrading Parallels Tools Whenever you upgrade Parallels Workstation upgrade Parallels Tools in the existing virtual machines To upgrade Parallels Tools 1 Make sure that the virtual machine configuration includes a CD DVD ROM drive and it is enabled the Enabled check box is selected See the CD DVD ROM Options on page 129 Start your guest operating system and log in In order to install tools properly do not begin the installation until the guest OS completes its startup and you log in Select Install Parallel Tools from the Parallels Workstation VM menu Parallels Tools Setup wizard starts and informs you that you that Parallels Tools installed in your virtual machine will be updated Click Next Creating a Virtual Machine 87 5 In the Setup Type window choose between the complete setup and a custom one The complete setup installs all of the tools available for your guest OS If you choose custom setup in the Select Components window select th
176. pter parameters Adapter type MAC Address D05144874FBD Adding a Sound Device This topic describes how to add a sound device in Parallels Workstation for Windows To add a sound device to a virtual machine 1 In Configuration Editor click Add to launch Add Hardware Wizard 154 Error No text of specified style in document 2 In the Select hardware dialog box select Sound Device in the Available Hardware list and click Next Add Hardware Wizard 5 elect hardware What type of hardware do vou want to install Please use the list of available hardware to select a type of hardware you want to install You can add either configured or Available Hardware nan canfiqured device To add E Hard Disk configured device click Nest button pD DVD ROM and ga through the set of 1 configuration dialogs Othenwise click poppy Add device instantly button After that TO EISE you will be able to configure device manually Parallel Part e USE Controller Add device instantly 3 In the Select output device dialog box select the sound and recording devices to use and specify if you want to have these devices connected when the virtual machine is started Add Hardware Wizard Select output device Please select sound device Please specify which sound playback and recording devices should be connected to the virtual machine Specify playback sound device Default sound playback device Specify recording
177. ptions for the open virtual machine and for Parallels Workstation itself Toolbar buttons for starting stopping resetting pausing the virtual machine and for switching main windows views Status bar icons depicting virtual devices connected to the virtual machine and their status Interface Basics 47 Hiding Parallels Workstation Controls You can hide some of the Parallels Workstation window components such as the toolbar and status bar To hide the toolbar status bar Choose Toolbar Status Bar from the View menu You can make them visible at any time by selecting them in the menu again The main window controls have check marks in the menu when they are visible Startup Options Dialog The Startup Options dialog box appears when you start Parallels Workstation for the first time The Startup Options dialog box helps you find the virtual machine you want to work with or lets you create a new one You can also configure Parallels Workstation startup options in this dialog box Startup Options Please select virtual machine you wish to work with ou may ether choose one of recently used virtual machines or create a new one Vh Path C Documents and Settingsselenan Start Menus Recently Used Virtual Machines C Documents and Settingsselenan sStart MenushMy DacumentssParallels Virtual M Load recently used VM at startup Shaw startup dialog Opening a Recently Used Virtual Machine 1 Select the virtual m
178. rallels Workstation is a powerful easy to use and cost effective desktop virtualization solution It enables the user to create completely networked totally secure independent virtual machines on a single physical computer Parallels Workstation is empowered by a lightweight hypervisor a thin layer of software that works between the host computer s hardware and the primary operating system The lightweight hypervisor controls some of the host computer s hardware resources which results in dramatically more stable secure and higher performing virtual machines Parallels Workstation sophisticated virtualization engine enables each virtual machine to operate similarly to a physical computer Each virtual machine has its own set of virtual hardware processor RAM floppy CD and DVD drives I O devices and hard disk See the Virtual Machine Hardware page 12 topic for the full list of Parallels virtual machine devices Intel virtualization technology VT x is fully supported by Parallels Workstation See Intel Virtualization Technology VT x and AMD V Support page 11 for details Parallels Workstation has a set of special tools that enhance the performance and functionality of the guest operating system mouse synchronization tool clipboard synchronization tool and others See Parallels Tools Overview page 77 for the full list of tools and their descriptions Parallels Image Tool Installed along with Parallels Workstation enables th
179. rce Description Floppy Options 57 Options Windows XP Ge Shared Folders folders 0 enabled Device Status A ideo O items 0 enabled Enabled Essi Memory 256 MB z Floppy Ay E Hard Disk 1 a000 MB C Documents a S CD DVD RO Dwing P SP2 io e Network Adap Bridged Ethernet Sound Default sound playback de o USB Controller Autoconnect On Emulation Remove Device status To temporary disable floppy drive operations without deleting the drive from configuration clear the Enabled check box Note If you start the virtual machine with the floppy drive disabled you cannot change this option when the virtual machine is running If the floppy drive is enabled it can be connected or disconnected while the VM is running Media accessed by the floppy drive can also be changed Select the Connect at startup option to start the guest OS with the floppy drive connected Emulation Use real floppy option If you have one or more physical floppy drives on your computer select the Use real floppy option to use a real floppy disk from inside the virtual machine All available floppy drives will be shown in the Floppy Drives list You can select one of them for example A Note In Linux primary OS you must have root privileges to connect the real device to the virtual machine floppy drive Otherwise real floppy drive will not appear in the list of available devices even if it is installed on your computer
180. rkstation to the following folder C Program FilessParallelssParallels Workstation In the Select Program Folder dialog box specify the name for the Parallels Workstation folder as it will appear in the Windows Start menu and click Next The folder is named Parallels by default Parallels Workstation Select Program Folder Please select a program folder Setup will add program shortcuts to the program folder specified below ou may type a new folder name or select one fram the existing folder list Click Next to continue Program Folder Existing Folders ABBYY Linava 10 Accessones Administrative Tools FAR manager Games ICG 4 1 Inter ideo wWinD vp 5 Kaspersky Anti virus Personal K Lite Codec Pack 24 Error No text of specified style in document 6 In the Select shortcuts dialog box specify which Parallels Workstation shortcuts you want to create and click Next Parallels Workstation Select shortcuts Please specify which application shortcut would wou like to be created Create the application shortcut on the Desktop Create the application shortcut in the Start Menu Put the application sharteut on the Quick Launch panel 7 In the Ready to Install the Program dialog box click Install to start the Parallels Workstation installation or click Back to return to the previous steps Parallels Workstation Heady to Install the Program The wizard i ready to begin installation Click Install to begi
181. rmat click the Compact button to start the process of disk compacting See the Compacting Virtual Disk topic page 113 for information on this feature The Compact button is disabled for virtual disks in plain format Configuring a Virtual Machine 129 CD ROM options A virtual machine CD DVD ROM drive can be connected to a real CD DVD ROM drive of your computer as well as to an ISO image of a disc Up to four IDE devices both hard disks and CD DVD ROM drives can be connected to a virtual machine currently Configuration Editor Resource Description CO DYD ROM Options 57 Options windows XP ig Shared Folders D folders 0 enabled ier Video 0 items 0 enabled Enabled Ii Memory 256 MB FY Floppy a Connect at startup E Hard Disk 1 a000 MB C Documents LS LD DVD ROM 1 D winkP_SP2iso panes e Network Adapt Bridged Ethernet Sound Default sound playback di O Use real CD D vD ROM 5 Use image file T USB Controller Autoconnect On Image File D SWinktP_SP2 iso m Attachment Options Connect to IDE 0 1 Remove Device Status To temporary disable a CD DVD ROM drive without deleting it from the configuration clear the Enabled check box Note If you start the operating system with the CD DVD ROM drive disabled you cannot change this option when the virtual machine is running If the CD DVD ROM drive is enabled it can be connected or disconnected at runtime Media that CD
182. rt SoftICE from the Windows command line while Parallels Workstation is already running Note Since SoftICE is a Windows application this problem may occur in Windows primary OS only To fix the problem 1 Open SoftICE Settings select the Troubleshooting option Choose the Do not patch keyboard driver option 2 Restart your computer Initializing Swap File Problem If you receive the Unable to initialize swap file message when starting a virtual machine this may be a sign that the virtual machine requires more memory that specified in its configuration re is no more free space on the volume where the virtual machine configuration is stored 1 Doone ofthe following Inthe Property Page click the Memory link and decrease the amount of memory used by the virtual machine Locate the folder where the files of the virtual machine are stored and move the folder to a local hard disk which has enough free disk space 2 Try to start the virtual machine again Index A AC 97 sound driver 12 81 Activating program e 26 29 Adding custom screen resolution 166 devices 139 hard disks 139 network adapter 139 164 parallel port 102 serial port 102 Address IP 165 172 MAC 131 MAC 1n a cloned virtual machine 178 Automatic starting of virtual machine 121 Automatic update check 26 33 38 B Boot sequence changing boot sequence 73 120 setting boot sequence 120 Bridged Ethernet n
183. s 1 Start Parallels Workstation 2 Create a virtual machine configuration for the specific guest OS or open an existing one To install from a physical CD DVD or CD DVD iso image 1 On the Property Page of the virtual machine click the CD DVD ROM drive link in the Resources list to open Configuration Editor 2 On the CD DVD ROM Options tab make sure that the Enabled and the Connect at startup options are selected 3 Connect the installation media If you install from a real CD DVD Select Use real CD DVD ROM and choose the real drive to be used by the VM from the CD DVD ROM Drives list Insert the installation CD DVD disc into the appropriate drive of your computer If you install from an iso image file Select the Use image file option and specify the path to the iso file in the Image File field 4 Specify the IDE channel for the virtual CD DVD ROM drive select 0 1 in the Connect to list 5 Click the Save button at the bottom of the Configuration Editor window to save the virtual machine configuration 6 Click the Power On p button on the toolbar to start your virtual machine 74 Error No text of specified style in document 7 Follow the installation instructions for the operating system To install from a physical floppy disk or an fdd floppy image 1 On the Property Page of the virtual machine click on the Floppy resource to open Configuration Editor On the Floppy Options tab make sure that th
184. s can be connected to a virtual machine simultaneously Parallels Workstation lets you connect USB devices to virtual machine automatically See the USB Options topic page 138 to learn how to use this option Networking in Virtual Machine Parallels Workstation allows two types of networking in virtual machine Bridged Ethernet and Host only networking This section describes these types of networking and the ways of configuring them Configuring a Virtual Machine 165 Bridged Ethernet Networking Bridged Ethernet networking allows virtual machines to access a physical network such as Local Area Network and the Internet You must have an Ethernet adapter installed on your host computer This Ethernet adapter should support promiscuous mode as described in Hardware Requirements page 18 To access LAN and the Internet configure the virtual machine in virtual machine Network adapter options on page 131 select Bridged Ethernet type of networking in the Emulation group and choose the proper network adapter in the list configure network options in the guest operating system Creating Host Only Network Parallels Workstation provides virtual network accessible only to the primary operating system and virtual machines running on it The primary operating system is attached to this network through the Parallels Host Guest Virtual NIC adapter installed along with Parallels Workstation For a virtual machine to join such a host only
185. s is a virtual hard disk of a Parallels virtual machine One virtual machine may have one or several virtual hard disks One virtual disk can be connected to different virtual machines There are two formats of virtual disks plain and expanding Both have the same extension Images of hard disks created as the result of data migration from real hard disks may be used as virtual hard disks For more information about virtual hard disks see the Hard Disk Images topic page 16 This file is created when you suspend a virtual machine This file contains the state of the guest OS and its applications at the moment when the suspend was invoked See Suspending Resuming Virtual Machine page 95 for more information This file contains an image of a CD or DVD Operating systems process iso image files as CD DVD discs More information about iso images is given in the CD DVD Real Discs and Images page 17 topic This file contains an image of a floppy disk created by Parallels Workstation dd 1mage files are processed by an operating system as a floppy disks More information about fdd images is given in the Floppy Disks and Disk Images page 17 topic Serial and parallel ports can be emulated via output txt files See Serial Port Options on page 133 and Parallel Port Options on page 134 16 Error No text of specified style in document Support of Virtual and Real Disks This section provides all the information about th
186. s tab of the Preferences window You may adjust resolution of the monitor for full screen mode See User Interface Preferences page 174 for more information Note You can configure your virtual machine to start in full screen mode right away Select the Switch to fullscreen mode automatically option on the VM Flags page 121 tab in Configuration Editor Running a Virtual Machine 97 Keyboard Shortcuts in Virtual Machine If when working in the virtual machine you press a special key combination intended for the guest OS for example Ctrl Alt Del for any of the Windows guest operating systems the primary operating system may intercept such a command That is why the standard hot key combinations for using in a virtual machine are replaced according to the rules below When the Primary OS is Windows If your computer is running any of Windows primary OSes the primary OS will intercept the Ctrl Alt Del key combination pressed in the guest OS To send Ctr1 Alt Del to the guest OS press Ctrl Alt Ins while the keyboard input is captured inside the virtual machine window or select Send Ctrl Alt Del from the Parallels Workstation VM menu When the Primary and Guest OSes are Linuxes When both primary and guest operating systems are Linuxes to send standard hotkey combinations to the guest Linux OS press the Shift key instead of the Alt key in standard key combinations For example to send Ctrl1 Alt Backspace to the
187. s virtual machine open the Configuration Editor Shared Folders tab when the virtual machine is not running Enabled option shows the tool s current status This tool cannot be disabled Advanced Options 111 Place shortcut on the desktop option When selected shared folders shortcuts are placed to the guest OS desktop Description Displays a short description of the tool For a complete description see the Parallels Tools Overview Saving Changes After you have made the desired changes on the tab do one of the following Click the Apply button to activate changes and choose another tab for editing Click the OK button to activate changes and close Parallels Tools Center CHAPTER 10 Parallels Tools for Linux To ensure a better integration between your primary and guest OS Parallels Workstation provides a set of tools for Linux guest OSes that includes Dynamic Resolution Tool Mouse Synchronization Tool and Time Synchronization Tool Dynamic Resolution Tool Dynamic Resolution Tool enables you to work with dynamic resolution When you switch to Full Screen mode the guest OS window resolution changes automatically Mouse Synchronization Tool Mouse Synchronization Tool provides automatic capture of the mouse input each time the pointer goes over the guest OS window and automatic release of the mouse input when the pointer moves out of the guest OS window This tool also makes p
188. sing Parallels Image Tool The added space will appear on the virtual disk as an unpartitioned space To use this space you will have to create a new partition or extend the existing partition by means of the guest operating system Note The source hard disk image should not be in use by a running virtual machine To increase the size of an existing virtual hard disk Start Parallels Image Tool 2 Inthe Welcome dialog box select the Skip Introduction next time option if you want to skip this dialog box next time you run the Image Tool Click Next In the Select device type dialog box select the Hard Disk Drive option and click Next In the Select operation type dialog box select the Maintain an existing Hard Disk image option On the Hard Disk actions pane in the lower part of the dialog box select the Increase size of Hard Disk image option and click Next r5 Parallels Image Tool Select operation type Please select lype of an operation to be performed Please select an operation type to be persfomved with virtual hard disk Hard Disk operations C Create new Hard Disk image Please select n action to execute Hard Disk actions 9 Increase size of Hard Disk image O Convert plain Hard Disk image to expanding Hard Disk image C Convert expanding Hard Disk image to plain Hard Disk image Defragment expanding Hard Disk image Using Parallels Image Tool 197 5 In the Specify source and destination folder dialog box sel
189. sk size 113 Releasing keyboard and mouse 93 Removing devices 164 Resetting virtual machine 94 Resolution changing in Linux OS 167 in Windows OS e 166 Restarting Parallels Tools Center 104 Restore hidden messages 174 Resuming virtual machines 95 Running virtual machines 89 Runtime changing at 98 S SAV 15 95 Screen resolutions 166 Screen shots for bug reports 214 of guest operating system screen e 58 Serial ports adding a serial port 139 connecting a serial port 102 serial port options 133 Setting preferences 118 Shared folders setting up a shared folder 184 shared folders options 122 Shared Folders tool 77 using shared folders 184 viewing in guest OS 186 sharing files 122 Shut down virtual machine 94 Socket 133 Solaris network driver installation 83 Sound devices connecting a sound device 102 disconnetcting a sound device 102 Sound driver AC 97 sound driver 12 81 installing sound driver in OS 2 and eComStation 85 installing sound driver in Windows 98 80 installing sound driver in Windows NT 81 sound options 136 Starting Virtual Machine 91 Startup options 47 170 Status bar connecting devices in a running Virtual Machine 98 general description 54 hiding of 46 Sun Solaris supported versions 13 Supported guest operating systems 13 Suspending virtual machines 95 Switching to Full screen 96 OS Window mode 96 S
190. sound device Default sound recording device hal Specify if the virtual machine should activate the sound devices at power an Activate sound devices at startup 4 Click Finish Configuring a Virtual Machine 155 Adding a Serial Port Using Add Hardware Wizard you can add up to four serial ports to your virtual machine You can use an output file a socket or a named pipe for the serial port emulation For details about serial port options see the Serial Port Options topic on page 133 This topic describes how to add a serial port in Parallels Workstation for Windows To add a new serial port 1 InConfiguration Editor click Add to launch Add Hardware Wizard 2 In the Select hardware dialog box select Serial Port in the Available Hardware list and click Next Add Hardware Wizard Select hardware What type of hardware do you want to install Please use the list of available hardware to select a type of hardware you want to install Bea aoleerimeare ou can add either configured or noan canfigured device To add E Hard Disk configured device click Next button ICD DVoE RoOM ue ian is a E canfiguration dialogs Uthensise clic Floppy Add device instantly button After that 5 Oud unu will be able to configure device Serial Fort Manually Farallel Fort e USE Controller Add device instantly 3 Inthe Select device type dialog box specify the type of device for emulating a serial port To emulate
191. storage device Please select a type of data storage device which the Image Tool should operate vath Device Types CO CD DVD ROM Drive i Floppy Disk Drive Using Parallels Image Tool 195 4 In the Select operation type dialog box select the Maintain an existing Hard Disk image option When you select it the management operation options appear in the lower part of the dialog box F Parallels Image Tool Select operation type Please select lype of an operation to be performed Please select an operation type to be performed with virtual hard disk Hard Disk operations CQ Create new Hard Disk image Please select an action to execute Hard Disk actions Increase size of Hard Disk image O Convert plain Hard Disk image to expanding Hard Disk image J Convert expanding Hard Disk image to plain Hard Disk image Defragment expanding Hard Disk image Four types of operations are available for virtual disks images Increase size of Hard Disk image Convert plain Hard Disk image to expanding Hard Disk image Convert expanding Hard Disk image to plain Hard Disk image Defragment expanding Hard Disk image Choose the operation you want to perform and click Next Refer to the relevant topic below in this section 196 Error No text of specified style in document Increasing a Hard Disk Image You can increase the size of an existing virtual hard disk You cannot decrease the virtual disk size by u
192. t of specified style in document 3 The Welcome window of the New Virtual Machine Wizard appears New Virtual Machine Wizard Welcome to the Mew Virtual Machine Wizard This wizard will quide you through the process of creating and configuring a new virtual machine Please click Next button to proceed Click Cancel to exit the wizard Cancel Creating a Virtual Machine 61 The wizard can create a virtual machine with three types of configurations Typical Custom and Blank Regardless of what type is selected you can later edit the virtual machine configuration to add or to remove virtual devices and to change their options Refer to the Editing Virtual Machine Configuration on page 118 topic Typical Configuration Typical virtual machine is created with a configuration typical for the chosen guest operating system See the Typical configurations page 62 topic for more details When creating a typical virtual machine you have to specify the following the type and version of the guest operating system that will be installed the name of the virtual machine the name for the virtual machine s configuration file and a folder to store it You can later change the settings and add new devices or remove unnecessary ones using Configuration Editor Custom Configuration When creating a custom virtual machine you can choose the type and version of the guest operating system to be installed specify the amount
193. te Wizard for downloading If you do not use the auto update feature you can start Parallels Update Wizard manually See Update Wizard in Windows page 34 After you download the update using Update Wizard it will start the installation automatically Manually from the Parallels web site If you have downloaded the update manually start the installation See Parallels Workstation for Windows Step by Step Installation page 20 34 Error No text of specified style in document Auto Updating Parallels Workstation in Windows Parallels Workstation includes an auto update feature It may be configured to perform checks automatically When starting Parallels Workstation for the first time you are prompted to decide whether you want to automatically check for updates every week We recommend that you use this feature Parallels Workstation will regularly access the Parallels update web server and check if a later than the one currently installed version is available By default checking for updates is performed once a week in background mode that means that you will be notified only when an update is found Then you get the following message A newer version of the Parallels Workstation is available Do you want to start Parallels Update Wizard Click Yes to launch Parallels Update Wizard that will download the update and start the installation Requirements to Your Computer To be able to use auto update feature your c
194. te of the virtual machine is saved in the sav file Guest operating system execution can be continued at any time Pausing the guest OS is recommended if you want to leave the virtual machine for a short period of time If you want to leave it for an extended period and especially if you need to restart your primary OS it is best to suspend the VM To pause a virtual machine Select Pause from the VM menu When a virtual machine is 1n pause mode its console 1s dimmed To continue running the virtual machine do one of the following Click the Power On p button on the toolbar Select Continue in the VM menu Suspending and Resuming Virtual Machine A running virtual machine can be suspended That means that the current state of the running virtual machine and its applications can be saved at any time in order to resume working with the guest OS at a later time The virtual machine will be stopped in a special way and its state will be saved to the hard disk in a sav file After that you may return to the suspended virtual machine at any time and continue running the guest OS from the point where it was stopped Suspending a Virtual Machine To suspend a virtual machine 1 While the guest OS is running do one of the following Click the Suspend button Select Suspend from the VM menu 2 Progress of saving is displayed in the Please wait while virtual machine is suspending window When finished the virtual machin
195. tel VT x See the More Information page 57 section of the About Parallels Workstation window AMD V Support AMD Virtualization AMD V technology is a hardware based technology that helps enable servers to reach higher levels of efficiency and utilization by assisting virtualization software to run multiple operating systems and applications on a single physical AMD Opteron processor based server The AMD V technology is fully supported by Parallels Workstation AMD V support can be manually disabled or enabled in the VM Flags page 121 section of the General Options tab in Configuration Editor If you run a guest OS with AMD V enabled the Virtualization mode flag in the About Parallels Workstation screen shows AMD V See the More Information page 57 section of the About Parallels Workstation screen 12 Error No text of specified style in document Virtual Machine Hardware Each VM contains the following virtual hardware CPU Intel Pentium or AMD Generic motherboard compatible with Intel 1815 chipset RAM up to 1500 MB VGA and SVGA with VESA 3 0 support 1 44 MB floppy disk drive mapped to a physical drive or to an image file Up to four IDE devices Each device may be either a virtual hard disk drive from 20 MB up to 128 GB each mapped to an image file or a CD DVD ROM drive mapped to a physical drive or to an image file Ethernet virtual network card compatible with RTL 8029 Parallels Workstation su
196. that assists in downloading updates The wizard accesses the Parallels update web server to check if a later version than the one currently installed 1s available and downloads it Update Wizard automatically selects the package suitable for your Linux primary OS To be able to use Parallels Update Wizard Your Linux primary operating system must be connected to the Internet To download the update 1 Start Parallels Update Wizard Parallels Update Wizard can be started automatically by auto update feature see Auto Updating Parallels Workstation in Linux page 39 or manually by one of the following methods 40 Error No text of specified style in document select Help Check for Updates in the Parallels Workstation menu in the Terminal issue the command updatewizard 2 Inthe Welcome window click Next to proceed v Parallels Update Wizard RR Welcome to the Parallels Update Wizard This wizard allows you to keep Parallels Workstation software Lp to date It will guide you through the process of checking downloading and installing available updates Skip introduction next time Cancel Updating Parallels Workstation 41 3 The wizard checks when your copy of the Parallels Workstation was last updated and displays the exact date and time of the update we Parallels Update Wizard T Please review the information about last successful update Last update was done on 02 25 2006 05 09 11 PM To check for
197. the Image Tool Using Parallels Image Tool 191 3 Inthe Select device type dialog box select the Hard Disk Drive option and click Next t Parallels Image Tool Tool should operate vath F EB elect a ty ni n ft epe RIT mmu Eu ir ro BLA i data storage device which the Image Toc F Lm m MU ER Device Types Fi oppy Di ik L In re 192 Error No text of specified style in document 4 In the Select operation type dialog box select the Create new Hard Disk image option and click Next Fi Parallels Image Tool Select operation type Please select lype of an operation to be performed E w Please select an operation type to be performed wath virtual hard disk Hard Disk operations CO Maintain an existing Hard Disk image 5 In the Specify source and destination folder dialog box select the physical hard disk in the Source list Specify the name and location for the hard disk image file in the Destination field Using Parallels Image Tool 193 Note The destination folder for the hard disk image should be located on another physical hard disk F Parallels Image Tool Specily source and destination Specily source image or device and deshnation path for the oulput data O3 You are g ng to create an image of a real hard dek Please select source hard disk dive and destination path for the oulput virtual hard disk Source and destination Source Physical HDD 0 v Destinationc C Progra
198. the Reinstall Driver button In the Update Device Driver Wizard select the Sound video and game controllers item and click Next 7 In the next window select the option Display a list of all the drivers in a specific location so you can select the driver you want and click Next Then select the type of device and click the Next button 9 In the next window click the Have Disk button The Install From Disk window is opened in the Copy manufacturer s file from field type the following path C Program Files Parallels Parallels Tools Sound and click OK 10 In the Select Device window select the AC 97 Audio and click OK 11 In the Update Device Driver Wizard window click Next When prompted insert the Windows 98 installation disc or connect CD ROM image file and specify the path to it in the Copy files from field Click OK After the wizard finishes copying the files click Finish in its window 12 Close the windows with AC 97 audio properties and system properties 13 Restart the virtual machine if prompted Installing Parallels Tools in Windows NT To install Parallels Tools in Windows NT Perform the installation procedure described in the Windows Tools Installation on page 79 topic Install Clipboard Synchronization and Mouse Synchronization Tools only Perform these specific steps for installing the Video Driver and Sound Driver Video Driver Installation To install the Video Driver do the following 1 Open the
199. the physical parallel port to use and specify if you want to have this device connected when the virtual machine starts up Add Hardware Wizard Select a physical device What physical port should be connected with the virtual Parallel Part Please select a physical parallel port which should be connected to the virtual machine Specify if the virtual machine should assume the Parallel Port connected at power an Connect Parallel Port at startup Configuring a Virtual Machine 161 If you selected the Use an output file option in the next dialog box you should specify the output file location You can choose a folder different from the default one using the button If you want the parallel port to be connected to the virtual machine upon startup make sure that the Connect Parallel Port at startup option is selected Add Hardware Wizard Select output file Where the output file of the parallel part is located Please specify a location where the output file of a Parallel Port should be placed Specify if the virtual machine should assume the Parallel Port connected at power an Connect Parallel Port at startup 162 Error No text of specified style in document If you selected Use a printer option you should specify the name of the printer to be connected to this parallel port If you want the parallel port to be connected to the virtual machine upon startup make sure that the Connect Parallel Port at startup
200. the primary operating system Have multiple guest operating systems OSes and their applications simultaneously running on a single physical computer Switching between operating systems does not require rebooting Consolidate and virtualize a computing environment reduce hardware costs lower operating expenses and increase productivity Parallels Virtual Machines 11 Intel Virtualization Technology VT x and AMD V Support Intel VT x Support Intel Virtualization Technology Intel VT is a set of hardware enhancements to Intel server and client platforms that provides a foundation for new and improved software based virtualization solutions An extended set of processor instructions allows tasks previously realized programmatically to be performed on a hardware level thus reducing virtualization overhead and improving virtual machine performance security and stability To learn more about Virtualization Technology see the Intel web site http www intel com technology platform technology virtualization index htm Intel Virtualization Technology is fully supported by Parallels Workstation If Parallels Workstation detects a VT enabled CPU support 1s automatically turned on VT x support can be manually disabled or enabled in the VM Flags page 121 section of the General Options tab in Configuration Editor If you run a guest OS with VT x enabled the Virtualization mode flag in the About Parallels Workstation screen shows In
201. tion media you are going to use Important Change the type of the guest OS on the General Options tab in Configuration Editor Save changes in configuration by clicking the Save button in the lower part of the Configuration Editor window or by choosing Save from the File menu Insert the CD with OS installation or connect the image of this CD Start the virtual machine Creating a Virtual Machine 75 6 Follow the Setup instructions During the installation when the guest OS reboots for the first time Stop the virtual machine set Hard Disk Floppy CD ROM sequence save the settings and start the guest OS Upgrading the Guest OS If you want to upgrade an earlier version of Windows operating system for a later one in your virtual machine follow the upgrade paths specified on the Microsoft web site If there is no such official path you cannot upgrade the guest system In the process of upgrading all data on the startup virtual disk will be lost Warning If you have a Windows XP Home or Professional edition virtual machine you cannot upgrade in place the operating system to one of supported Windows Vista Only clean upgrade is possible To upgrade a guest Windows OS 1 Change the booting sequence Open the Property Page of the virtual machine click the Edit button in the lower part of the Page or select Edit Configuration from the Flle menu Open the Booting Options tab Set the boot sequence either to
202. to this real LPT port If a physical printer is connected via this LPT port other virtual machines and the primary OS will not be able to use this printer For more information on this issue see Problems with Printing page 219 Use output file for connecting to an output file If you select this option you can connect an existing file or create a new one Click the Browse button and locate the file Use printer for connecting to a printer Windows primary OS only If you select Use printer and have a physical printer connected to your computer Printers list displays all the printers connected to your computer Select one of them to connect to the parallel port When a document is sent to printer in the VM Parallels Workstation creates a printer job and the primary OS executes it 136 Error No text of specified style in document Sound Options Configuration Editor Resource Description Sound Options 57 Options Windows XP G Shared Folders D folders 0 enabled e video 0 items 0 enabled Enabled ii Memory 256 MB P Floppy A Activate sound at startup E Hard Disk 1 SU00 MB C Docurnents amp COYDVD ROM 1 D swinsP SP2 1so Ky Network Adapt Bridged Ethernet 3 d Sound Default sound playback d e USE Controller Autoconnect On Emulation Specify playback sound device Default sound playback device v Specify recording sound device Default sound recording device v
203. tom screen resolutions al Memory 256 MB Floppy A Screen Resolution E Hard Disk 1 a000 MB C Documents a amp LD DVvD RO0 D SwinsP SP2 isn e 3 Network Adap Bridged Ethernet Sound Default sound playback de e USB Controller Autoconnect On UR o 124 Error No text of specified style in document Enable custom screen resolutions option allows using different screen resolutions for the virtual machine Screen Resolutions table displays all the custom resolutions defined for this virtual machine The check mark near a resolution means that this resolution will be available for selection in the virtual machine Those resolutions that do not have check marks will not be available for selection To enable disable a resolution open its properties using the Edit button Add button opens the Resolution Properties dialog box for creating a new resolution See the Using Custom Screen Resolutions page 166 topic for detailed description of this process Delete button B removes the selected screen resolution Edit button opens the Resolution Properties dialog box where you can change the screen resolution See the description of this dialog box in the Using Custom Screen Resolutions page 166 section Memory Options 9 usB Controller Autoconnect On Configuration Editor Resource Descrptian Memory Options 157 Options Windows sF Le Shared Folders 0 folders 0 enabled
204. troller itself can not be connected or disconnected To Enable a Device 1 Stop the virtual machine 2 Open Configuration Editor 3 Inthe Device Status section select the Enabled option Click the Save button to save changes in the configuration Close Configuration Editor 4 Start the virtual machine The device can be connected or disconnected at runtime 100 Error No text of specified style in document Connecting CD DVD ROM Drive When running a virtual machine with a CD DVD ROM drive you can Connect or disconnect the CD DVD ROM drive temporarily Change the media accessed by the CD DVD ROM drive If the virtual machine has several CD DVD ROM drives in the configuration the drives are numbered in the following way Windows primary OS The CD DVD ROM drives connected to your virtual machine are identified according to their IDE channels CD DVD ROM 00 means connected to IDE 0 0 CD DVD ROM 01 means connected to IDE 0 1 and so on Linux primary OS The drives are numbered according to the order they were connected The first of the connected CD DVD ROM drives will be CD DVD ROM 1 the second CD DVD ROM 2 and so on To Connect Disconnect CD DVD ROM Drive Do one of the following Choose CD DVD ROM number from the Devices menu Select the Connect or Disconnect command from the submenu Enable or disable a CD DVD ROM drive using the context menu of the CD DVD ROM drive on the status bar To Chan
205. tyle in document Starting Parallels Image Tool To start Parallels Image Tool In Windows primary OS 1 Choose Programs from the Windows Start menu 2 Choose Parallels Workstation from the Parallels folder and click Parallels Image Tool In Linux primary OS Launch the Terminal program and enter the command imagetool in the command line Using Parallels Image Tool 189 Creating an Image of a Real Hard Disk Using Parallels Image Tool you can create images of real hard disks Such images can be used as data disks in virtual machines Even if the operating system was installed on the real hard disk the image of this disk cannot be used as a startup disk in the virtual machine Since the virtual machine hardware is different from the hardware of your physical computer the operating system may function improperly in the virtual machine Note Blank hard disk and floppy disk images can be created using the Recreate button on the Hard Disk Options and Floppy Options tabs of the Configuration Editor After you have created a hard disk image you can connect it to the virtual machine using Configuration Editor See Managing Virtual Machines page 169 for information on working with virtual hard disks See Adding New Devices to Virtual Machine topic page 139 in Configuring a Virtual Machine page 118 to learn how to connect a new hard disk image to the virtual machine or see Hard disk options page 126 to learn how to replace a
206. typical virtual machines is always created in expanding format page 16 Creating a Virtual Machine 63 9 NO Windows Vista Windows 2003 U Oo LR 9 N Windows XP H 9 N 9 9 Windows 2000 Windows NT Windows Me 98 EN oo Windows 95 Windows 3 11 QN BG Linux 256 9 N FreeBSD 256 OS 2 Warp 3 4 128 OS 2 Warp 4 5 eComStation 256 OS 2 other 128 Solaris 256 MS DOS Other guest OSes 9 u Creating Typical Virtual Machine To create a typical virtual machine 1 Open New Virtual Machine Wizard 2 Inthe Welcome dialog box select the Skip Introduction next time option if you want to skip this dialog box next time you run the wizard Click Next 64 Error No text of specified style in document 3 Make sure the Create a typical VM option is selected Click Next New Virtual Machine Wizard Select virtual machine configuration Haw to configure your new virtual machine Please specify how would pou like ta configure your virtual machine P is the Fastest way to create a new VW The wizard will create a VM with the most common options for a selected E OS au will be able to C Create a custom VM configuration This mode allows you to create a new VM with specific configuration C Create a blank VM Choose this option if you need a YM with the empty configuration 4 Specify the type and the version of the guest operating system you want to install in the n
207. u Devices gt USB and in the context menu for the USB controller GP in the status bar In the list the devices currently connected to the virtual machine have check marks The primary OS can not access a USB device while it is being used by the virtual machine Autoconnect If the Autoconnect USB devices option in the USB Options page 138 tab is turned on you can connect an additional USB device to your virtual machine Simply plug a USB device into your host computer If you connect an additional USB device to your host computer while the maximum allowed number of USB devices is already running 8 ports for 2 0 and 2 port for 1 1 devices nothing will happen However you will be able to connect a new plugged in device manually after disconnecting any of the currently connected USB devices Manual Connect To connect a USB device to the virtual machine Connect a USB device to your host computer Choose USB from the Devices menu or open the context menu for the USB controller amp 9 on the status bar to display the list of all the USB devices connected to your host computer Click the desired USB device in the list to connect it Note If you receive the Unable to connect USB device message while trying to connect an USB device on a computer running Linux primary OS see Problem with Connecting USB Devices in Linux Primary OS page 217 104 Error No text of specified style in document Parallels Tools for Wi
208. u Type or select a name and a folder to store the screen shot file Parallels Workstation saves screen shots as bmp files in Windows primary OS and as png files in Linux primary OS CHAPTER 6 Creating a Virtual Machine This chapter discusses different ways of creating a new virtual machine All of them include the following steps creating a virtual machine configuration installing a guest operating system installing Parallels Tools The procedure of creating virtual machines is the same in all supported primary operating systems In This Chapter Creating Virt al Machine C onte BEOtlODE s ooo poca soa E ribs CUR o ao Dark os een casser ost 59 lius elitr CS ON NP S 72 l stalinge Parallels TOOS erci a rere nee E E te 76 Uninstalling Parallels Tools in Windows Guest OS nnneeesssssseeesssssssseerrssssssssererssssssseeeees 87 Uninstalling Parallels Tools in Linux Guest OS sssssssoenesssssssseersssssssseeresssssssseresssssssseeeees 88 Creating Virtual Machine Configuration This section discusses what is a virtual machine configuration and how to create it with the help of New Virtual Machine Wizard New Virtual Machine Wizard A new virtual machine configuration can be created with the help of New Virtual Machine Wizard To open New Virtual Machine Wizard 1 Open Parallels Workstation 2 Click the button or choose New VM from the File menu 60 Error No tex
209. ue for Parallels virtual machines If you changed the amount of video memory for your virtual machine in Configuration Editor select the current value 3 When selecting screen resolution for a color depth make sure that the selected resolution for a particular color depth does not require more memory than the virtual machine s video card has For 4096K video card do not select resolutions greater than 800x600 for 16 bit color Installing Parallels Tools Parallels Workstation includes specially developed tools that help you use your virtual machines in the most comfortable and efficient way The current version of Parallels Workstation is supplied with tools for the following guest operating systems Windows 95 98 ME NT 2000 XP 2003 Vista OS 2 and eComStation Solaris The PRL8029 driver for is available for Solaris guest OS you should install it if you want the Solaris virtual machine to support networking For other guest operating systems the PRL8029 network adapter driver is available For Windows operating systems starting Windows 2000 Tools are installed via the Install Parallels Tools command in the VM menu Tools available for other operating systems must be installed manually Parallels Tools are located on the CD image VMTOOLS ISO the network drivers for OS 2 are also located on the floppy disk image VMTOOLS FDD Both CD and floppy images can be found in the folder where Parallels Workstation was insta
210. und driver If you installed Parallels Tools in the default location select C Program Files Parallels Parallels Tools Sound If you installed Parallels Tools in another folder locate that folder Click OK Then click OK in the Install Driver window In the Third party Drivers window click Yes The Add Unlisted or Updated Driver window informs you that you are about to install the AC 97 Audio Driver Click OK Click OK in the About AC97 Audio Driver window Click OK in the System Settings Change window 10 Click Close button in the Display Type window Note You must restart the virtual machine to complete the setup Installing Parallels Tools in Linux Guest OS Parallels Tools are now available for Linux guest OSes with X org 6 7 or later Warning Before starting Parallels Tools installation close all applications to prevent data loss during possible X Server restart If the X Server doesn t respond after Parallels Tools installation or update restart your virtual machine To install Parallels Tools 1 2 Start the virtual machine Press Control Option Alt to release the keyboard and mouse input to your primary operating system From the VM menu choose Install Parallels Tools The ISO image of Parallels Tools installation CD vmtools linux iso will be connected to the virtual machine Click anywhere in the guest OS window to capture the keyboard and mouse input in the guest OS Start the terminal Creating a V
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212. uration page 119 and start the guest operating system Connect the USB printer as a USB device See the Connecting USB Devices page 103 topic Install the native driver for the printer in the guest OS CHAPTER 11 Configuring a Virtual Machine This chapter provides the information on configuration options available for a virtual machine In This Chapter Editine Virtual Machine COL TPBEOUODE sicicsintateccedidsavaisharcessiedadesactaccnsstideavante nieve Lolsdus teintes dad 118 Adding and Removing Devices ete ito qu repa PE Prou eeu Sonn E eb Pad goqi bans tet aas EEEE 139 Using USB Devices in Virtual Machine seeeeeeseseeeeeeeeee nennen nnne eene nnns 164 Neiworkne TB Vrud Mac Me eresien in cumes Oa cete lucu fete td ues cu bM petu 164 Custom Screen ResoluttOTIS ice oees eee toes seio cese t nee aai edini Senso oT Usos oae oi Pose Pens raidir iois 166 Editing Virtual Machine Configuration The configuration of an existing virtual machine can be changed in Configuration Editor In this section we consider how to edit the VM s general settings and the settings of the devices already included in the configuration Adding and removing devices are discussed in the separate section Adding New Devices to Virtual Machine page 139 Changing Device Settings To change device settings 1 Open the virtual machine which configuration you want to change 2 Open Configuration Editor by clicking the a button on the
213. utton on the toolbar select Console View from the View menu To return to Console view while in the Property Page view do one of the following click the Console View LA button select Console View from the View menu Full Screen Mode Guest operating system console can be displayed in full screen mode with the Parallels Workstation menu toolbar and status bar being hidden For detailed information see Switching Virtual Machine to Full Screen Mode on page 96 Console Screen Shots You can make screen shots of the console window while the virtual machine is running See Making Screen Shots on page 58 for details Interface Basics 53 Configuration Editor Configuration Editor helps you edit a virtual machine configuration It is available only when the virtual machine is stopped Configuration of a suspended virtual machine cannot be edited To open Configuration Editor do one of the following Open the Property Page and click the Configuration or Resources link or any device link On the Property Page click the Edit button at the lower part of the window Choose Edit Configuration from the File menu Configuration Editor Description General Options Booting Options VM Flags Windows P D folders 0 enabled VM Identification Video 0 items 0 enabled lal Memory 256 MB Floppy A E Hard Disk 1 Bunt MB C Documents a 9 LD DVvD RO0 Di SwinsP SP2 isn Creep de Tse amp 3 Network Adap Bri
214. ve help You can open a help page for the active window by pressing F1 Parallels web site http www parallels com Explore the Support web page that includes product help files and FAQ section CHAPTER 2 Parallels Virtual Machines This chapter provides specifications for Parallels virtual machines briefly describes the virtualization technologies used lists the types of files used by virtual machines and explains their usage The chapter also includes the list of supported guest operating systems In This Chapter Virtual Machine Technology OVetvieW e eee tt Heus ke etas E Ne eR be R 10 Intel Virtualization Technology VT x and AMD V Support eeeeeeeee 11 Virtual Machine Ear WAL xcs seseussacascseesnieseussncaestuuandaseneeaanaeceahiedsussastuatvandesaussAatmeneneebensaaateets 12 Supported Guest Operating S YStCMS sesccdecacs scons serancincucouseasseaaecuensessasasansececusessopasnatacweusessances 13 ber M ach me PGS TERT ULM 15 Support ol Virtual and Real Dis KS 5 etes m ossi dust em ioca as dime E 16 Virtual Machine Technology Overview Virtual machine technology allows users to Create a virtual machine each with a set of standard virtual hardware Install any operating system in the virtual machine no matter what operating system 1s installed on your computer The guest operating system and its applications are isolated inside this virtual machine and share physical hardware resources with
215. ven if it is installed on your computer To add a CD DVD ROM drive to a virtual machine 1 In Configuration Editor click Add to launch Add Hardware Wizard Configuring a Virtual Machine 145 2 In the Select hardware dialog box select CD DVD ROM in the Available Hardware list and click Next Add Hardware Wizard Select hardware What type of hardware do you want to install Please use the list of available hardware to select a type of hardware you want to Install Available Hardware ou can add either configured or noan canfigured device To add Hard Disk configured device click Nest button ic CD DVD ROM and go through the set af Floppy configuration dialogs Otherwise click i Add device instantly button After that e sound unu will be able to configure device Jl Serial Part Cu Parallel Port o USE Controller Add device instantly 3 Inthe Select action type dialog box specify the type of CD DVD ROM drive For a physical drive select the Use a physical CD DVD ROM drive option and click Next 146 Error No text of specified style in document For an ISO image file select the Use an ISO image of a CD DVD disk option and click Next Add Hardware Wizard Select device type What media type should be associated with the virtual dive Please specify how you would like to emulate CO DYO ROM drive C3 Use an ISO image of a CD DVD disk 4 If you selected the Use a physical CD DVD ROM drive option in the next
216. ween the adapters using the commands in the Devices Network menu Connecting Serial or Parallel Ports If a parallel or serial port is enabled in your virtual machine configuration you can connect or disconnect the port at runtime To connect or disconnect serial or parallel port do the following From the Devices menu select COM from 1 to 4 depending on how many serial ports are enabled or LPT from 1 to 3 depending on how many parallel ports are enabled Then select the Connect or Disconnect command Note Alternatively right click the serial 9 or parallel M5 port icon on the status bar on page 54 to display the context menu and select the appropriate command Connecting Sound Device If the sound device is enabled in the virtual machine configuration you can connect or disconnect it at runtime To connect or disconnect the sound device Choose Sound from the Devices menu Choose Activate to connect the sound device or choose Mute to disconnect Note Alternatively right click the sound device icon on the status bar on page 54 to display the context menu and select the appropriate command Running a Virtual Machine 103 Connecting USB Devices If the USB controller is enabled in the virtual machine configuration you can connect or disconnect USB peripherals at runtime Parallels Workstation automatically detects all the USB devices connected to your host computer and displays them in the men
217. with a socket select the Use a physical serial port option and click Next To use an output text file select the Use an output file option and click Next 156 Error No text of specified style in document To use a named pipe select the Use a named pipe option and click Next Add Hardware Wizard Select device type What media type should be associated with the virtual Seral Part Please specify how you would like to emulate a Serial Part C3 Use an output file CO Use a named pipe 4 If you selected the Use a physical serial port option in the next dialog box you should select the physical serial port to use and specify if you want to have this device connected when the virtual machine starts up Add Hardware Wizard Select a physical device What physical part should be connected with the virtual Seral Part Please select a physical serial park which should be connected to the virtual machine Specify if the virtual machine should assume the Serial Port connected at power an Connect Serial Port at startup Configuring a Virtual Machine 157 If you selected the Use an output file option in the next dialog box you should specify the output file location You can choose a folder different from the default one using the button If you want the serial port to be connected to the virtual machine upon startup make sure that the Connect Serial Port at startup option is selected Add Hardware Wizard Select
218. wo steps 1 Adding one or more shared folders to the virtual machine configuration 2 Installing Parallels Tools in the guest OS The Shared Folders tool is require for viewing the shared folders in the guest OS See Installing Parallels Tools page 76 Managing Virtual Machines 185 Adding a Shared Folder 1 Open the virtual machine configuration click the Configuration Editor button to open the 2 Inthe Configuration Editor select the Shared Folders tab see the Shared Folders page 122 topic 3 Select the Enable shared folders option Click the L button to open the Shared Folder Properties window 5 In the Shared Folder Properties window inthe Name field specify a name for the folder that will appear in the guest OS in the Path field specify a folder in the primary OS that will be shared to prohibit writing to this folder from the guest OS select the Read Only option You will be able to save files to this folder in the primary OS only make sure the Enabled option is selected and click OK Add Shared Folder Shared Folder Properties Mame SF Fath CAM Exchange Folder Description up to 50 characters Read only Enabled Cancel 6 Click OK in the Configuration Editor 7 Click A to save changes in the virtual machine configuration If you have not installed Parallels Tools in the virtual machine install them now Power on your virtual machine and view shared fold
219. x Step by Step Installation Notes 1 Make sure that the required packages and libraries listed in the software requirements page 19 for the Linux primary OS are installed on your system 2 To install Parallels Workstation in a Linux operating system you need root privileges Preparing for installation If you purchased the boxed edition of Parallels Workstation Just insert the CD and keep the CD sleeve with the activation key handy If you purchased the program from Parallels Online store http www parallels com en buyonline or downloaded a trial version make sure that you have a permanent or trial activation key Depending on what file types your system supports download the RPM or DEB or TZG package respectively Step by Step Installation 1 Launch the Terminal program Note To enter or issue a command you must type a command and press the Enter key 2 To gain root privileges enter the following command su Enter the password for the root account when prompted 3 If rpm is supported in your system Locate the file Parallels 2 2 xxxx lin i386 rpm To start installing Parallels Workstation issue the following command rpm i Parallels 2 2 xxxx 1in 1386 rpm Proceed to step 7 4 If deb is supported in you system Locate the file Parallels 2 2 xxxx lin depb To start installing Parallels Workstation issue the following command dpkg i Parallels 2 2 xxxx Lin deb Proceed to step 7 5 Ifboth rpm and
220. y Disk Drive peration type Create new Floppy Disk image Source Floppy Disk A Destination C Program Files Parallels Parallels wW orkstabonloppe fdd Click Start button to begin processing Click Cancel to exit the Image Tool Click Back to go back and conect processing options 8 While the operation is being performed the Execution in progress dialog box is displayed 9 After the floppy disk image has been created click Exit in the Processing is completed dialog box To learn how to connect a floppy disk image to the floppy drive of the virtual machine see the Floppy Options on page 125 topic Creating Images of CD DVD Discs To create an image of a CD DVD disc as an ISO file follow these steps Insert the disc into the CD DVD ROM drive of your computer Start Parallels Image Tool In the Welcome dialog box select Skip Introduction next time if you want to skip this dialog box next time you run the Image Tool Click Next Using Parallels Image Tool 209 4 Inthe Select Device Type dialog box select the CD DVD ROM Drive option and click Next IE Parallels Image Tool Please select a type of data storage device which the Image Tool should operate vath Device Types C Hard Disk Dive 210 Error No text of specified style in document 5 In the Select Operation Type dialog box make sure that the Create new ISO image of CD DVD option is selected Click Next f Parallels Image Tool Select operation ty
221. y OS that supports rpm perform steps 1 2 of the procedure described above move to the directory where the installation package is located cd lt installation directory gt issue the following command to install the program rpm U oldpackage Parallels 2 2 xxxx 1in 1386 rpm perform steps 4 8 of the updating procedure Updating From DEB and TGZ Packages To update Parallels Workstation in the primary OS that supports deb or tgz perform the steps from the Parallels Workstation installation procedure that are related to your Linux primary system See the Parallels Workstation for Linux Step by Step Installation page 28 topic Troubleshooting If you receive a Cannot configure or Cannot compile message make sure you have kernel sources installed You can view the log file and try to fix problem yourself The Log file is located usr lib parallels comp log lt log number gt error If you can not fix the problem yourself please send the log file and the problem description to reports parallels com Parallels support team will assist you as soon as possible CHAPTER 5 Interface Basics This chapter provides information about Parallels Workstation window and its controls In This Chapter Mam Windom ot tota stone os Sebo cusdtelb tele esthetic hath Lea Le LLLA hts i lan eL Aaa eas 46 btattup OpUOns DIMOT s is eae eth deve o codi laren s Uode i ld unis ne Menge aie Hae foedata 47 Prope y PAG m
222. y Page page 49 x Switch the main window to Console Guest OS window view Most of the toolbar buttons become enabled when you start the virtual machine When the virtual machine is stopped only the Power On button is enabled If you click a toolbar button it becomes visibly pressed reflecting the current virtual machine state Status Bar When the virtual machine is running the status bar displays information about its devices statuses Each device except memory connected to the virtual machine is represented by an icon on the right side of the status bar Interface Basics 55 The icons for the following devices appear on the status bar hard disk E CD DVD ROM 2 floppy disk drive F network adapter i serial port i parallel port Ul sound device USB controller 69 When a device is used by any process it is indicated by a coloured circle by the green circle when reading is being performed by the orange circle when writing is being performed To connect or disconnect the device at runtime when the guest OS is running right click the device icon to open its context menu and select the command you need The picture below shows the context menu for the CD DVD ROM drive b rm G toa Disconnect Connect ko D Connect Image The following devices have context menus CD DVD ROM floppy drive network adapter serial and parallel ports a sound device a
223. ystem requirements 18 T Technical support 213 Time Synchronisation tool 77 106 Toolbar buttons 51 91 94 96 changing position of 54 general description 46 hiding of 46 Tooltips for buttons in Linux primary OS 174 Troubleshooting 213 when installing Tools 79 Turning off virtual machine 94 Typical virtual machines 59 63 U Uninstalling Parallels Workstation in Linux primary operating system e 32 in Windows primary operating system e 27 Updating Parallels Workstation 33 in Linux primary operating system 38 in Windows primary operating system e 33 USB devices connecting USB devices 103 setting up a USB printer 117 USB Options 138 using USB devices 164 USB printers 117 V Video driver 77 107 Virtual hard disk compacting 113 converting expanding virtual hard disk into plain 199 converting plain virtual hard disk into expanding 197 creating a blank virtual hard disk 126 creating an image of a real hard disk 189 defragmenting an expanding virtual hard disk 201 expanding virtual hard disk 16 file type and format of a virtual hard disk 16 hard disk in virtual machine 126 increasing the size of a virtual hard disk 196 plain virtual hard disk 16 Virtual machine 15 adding new devices 139 configuration 15 creating custom configuration 59 65 creating typical configuration 59 63 editing options of current devices 118 folder for storing
224. zation Enabled tatus Enabled habec 3 Mouse Synchronization Enabled eiie ias The video driver allows Parallels ta use SVGA graphical modes in E Disk Compacting Enabled quest 0S monitors Itis alzo required for the Mouse Synchronization E Shared Folders Enabled Description Status Enabled option shows the tool s current status Video driver cannot be temporarily disabled Description Displays a short description of the tool For a complete description see the Parallels Tools Overview page 77 108 Error No text of specified style in document Mouse Synchronization Tool Options Parallels Tools Center Tool Status Mouse Synchronization Options fe Clipboard Synchronization Enabled D Time Synchronization Enabled pie Nm MB Video Driver Enabled eese ouse Synchronization Enabled e Wetmore DIEI Enabled The Mouse Synchronization enables the mouse to seamlessly roll E Disk Compacting Enabled from virtual machine screen to primar OS and back without pressing Shared Folders Enabled a special hot key combination Using this tool makes mouse movements smoother and improves system reaction on mouse The tool is especially effective when running Parallels on a remote terminal Description Status Enabled check box shows the tool s current status Mouse Synchronization Tool cannot be temporarily disabled Description Displays a short description of th

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