Contents 3
Installing Guest OS.....................................................................................................................................73
Installing a Guest Operating System on a Virtual Machine.............................................................74
Configuring X Window System in FreeBSD Guest OS..................................................................75
Installing Parallels Tools ............................................................................................................................76
Parallels Tools Overview.................................................................................................................77
Windows Tools Installation.............................................................................................................80
Windows 98 Sound Driver Installation ...........................................................................................82
Windows NT Tools Installation.......................................................................................................82
Solaris Network Driver Installation.................................................................................................84
OS/2 and eComStation Tools Installation .......................................................................................85
Upgrading Parallels Tools...............................................................................................................87
Uninstalling Parallels Tools in Windows Guest OSes.....................................................................88
Managing Virtual Machines 89
Setting Parallels Workstation Preferences..................................................................................................89
Common Preferences.......................................................................................................................90
Memory Preferences........................................................................................................................92
Network Preferences .......................................................................................................................93
User Interface Preferences...............................................................................................................95
Hot Key Combinations....................................................................................................................98
Using Virtual and Real Disks .....................................................................................................................99
Hard Disk Images..........................................................................................................................100
Floppy Disks and Disk Images......................................................................................................102
CD/DVD Real Discs and Images ..................................................................................................102
Selecting and Opening Virtual Machine...................................................................................................103
Startup Options Dialog..................................................................................................................104
Editing Virtual Machine Configuration....................................................................................................105
General Options.............................................................................................................................106
Shared Folders...............................................................................................................................110
Video (Screen Resolutions)...........................................................................................................111
Memory Options............................................................................................................................112
Floppy Options..............................................................................................................................113
Hard Disk Options.........................................................................................................................114
CD-ROM options..........................................................................................................................117
Network Adapter Options..............................................................................................................119
Serial Port Options ........................................................................................................................122
Parallel Port Options......................................................................................................................124
Sound Options...............................................................................................................................125
USB Options..................................................................................................................................127
Adding New Devices to Virtual Machine.................................................................................................128
Removing Devices.........................................................................................................................131
Networking in Virtual Machine................................................................................................................131
Bridged Ethernet Networking........................................................................................................131
Creating Host-Only Network.........................................................................................................132
Using Shared Folders................................................................................................................................133
Setting Up a Shared Folder............................................................................................................133
Viewing Shared Folder in Guest OS .............................................................................................135
Using USB Devices in Virtual Machine...................................................................................................135
Custom Screen Resolutions......................................................................................................................135
In Windows Guest OSes................................................................................................................136
In Linux Guest OSes .....................................................................................................................137