Customizing Parallels Desktop Control Center User Interface

Parallels Desktop Control Center is a part of the Parallels Desktop graphical user interface. It's a window that lists registered virtual machines that the Mac user can run and use. By default, the design of this window (graphics, text, etc) is provided by Parallels and looks like the following:

You can customize the design by specifying a URL to your own HTML document that will be displayed as a banner at the top of the window. The HTML page can contain text, graphics, and links such as your company logo, a welcome message, a link to a support page, etc. The HTML document format doesn't have any specific requirements.

The URL must be specified during the preparation stage of the Mass Deployment process . Specifically, you need to specify the URL string and the HTML page size using the following variables in the mass deployment configuration file ( deploy.cfg ):

• control_center_banner_url
• control_center_banner_height
• control_center_banner_min_width

For the description of how to specify the variables and their values, please see Changing Deployment Configuration Options . The variables are described in the Virtual Machines section.

The following is an example of Parallels Desktop Control Center displaying a custom banner at the top.

You can download a sample HTML document defining the banner from the following URL:

http://download.parallels.com/desktop/tools/header.zip