Glossary

This glossary defines terms and spells out abbreviations used in Parallels Management Console User's Guide. References to terms defined elsewhere in the glossary appear in italics .

Administrator. A user with server administration privileges.

Bridged networking. Virtual machine network connection mode that enables the virtual machine to appear as any other computer on the network, with it own IP address and network name.

Client computer. A computer that has Parallels Management Console installed.

Client operating system (client OS) . An operating system of a remote client computer where Parallels Management Console is installed.

Configuration file. See PVS file . Configuration file specifies virtual machine's devices and resources. It is created automatically when you create a new virtual machine.

Expanding format. A virtual hard disk format. An expanding virtual hard disk image file resides on your host computer and is small initially. Its size grows as you add applications and data to the virtual hard disk in the guest OS .

Guest operating system (guest OS). Operating system that runs under the virtual machine control.

HDD file. A virtual hard disk file used by the virtual machine.

Host computer. A physical server where Parallels Server Bare Metal or Parallels Server for Mac is installed. This computer hosts virtual machines files.

Host-only networking. Virtual machine network connection mode that create a private network between the host computer and its virtual machines, which makes the virtual machine available from the host computer only.

Localhost . Physical computer where both Parallels Server and Parallels Management Console, that you use to manage virtual machines, are installed.

Parallels Management Console. Client application that provides graphical user interface for managing Parallels Server Bare Metal or Parallels Server for Mac, their virtual machines, preferences, and settings.

Parallels Physical Server. A physical server where Parallels Server Bare Metal or Parallels Server for Mac is installed. This computer hosts virtual machines files.

Plain format. A virtual hard disk format. A plain virtual hard disk image file resides on your host computer and has a fixed size that cannot be changed.

Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) . An environment to boot computers using a network interface independently of available data storage devices (like hard disks) or installed operating systems.

PVS file. A virtual machine configuration file that contains information about the virtual machine resources, devices and other settings.

Shared networking. Virtual machine network connection mode that allows the virtual machine to use the host computer network connections.

Virtual hard disk. A file or a group of files that emulates virtual machine's hard disk.

Virtual Machine. A virtualized PC environment in which an operating system can be installed and run just like in a physical computer.

Virtual machine files. Files stored in the virtual machine folder. Virtual machine has at least two files: configuration file and virtual hard disk file.

Virtual machine template. A virtual machine that can be cloned to multiple virtual machines that will have the same configuration that the virtual machine template had.

VM. See Virtual Machine .