Using Parallels Tools

Parallels Tools are a suite of special utilities that help you use your virtual machines in the most comfortable and efficient way. With Parallels Tools, you can move the mouse seamlessly outside the guest OS window without pressing any key, change the virtual machine's screen resolution by simply resizing its window, synchronize your virtual machine's time and date settings with the time settings of the host computer, and share the host computer disks and folders with its virtual machines.

Parallels Tools are located on the disc images that are installed along with Parallels Server Bare Metal or Parallels Server for Mac. There is a separate Parallels Tools disc image for each type of the supported guest operating systems.

• prl-tools-win.iso : disc image with Parallels Tools for Windows guest operating systems.
• prl-tools-lin.iso : disc image with Parallels Tools for Linux guest operating systems.
• prl-tools-mac.iso : disc image with Parallels Tools for Mac OS X guest operating systems.

  Note: You can create virtual machines with Mac OS X guest operating systems only on Intel-based Macs.

• prl-tools-other.iso - disc image with Parallels Tools for other guest operating systems.

These disc images can be found in the following locations:

• Parallels Server for Mac: /Library/Parallels/Tools
• Parallels Server Bare Metal: /usr/share/parallels-server/tools
• Parallels Server for Mac Bare Metal Edition: /usr/share/parallels-server/tools