Listing Templates

Sometimes, you may need to get an overview of the virtual machine templates available on your Parallels server. For example, this may be necessary if you plan to create a virtual machine from a specific template, but do not remember its exact name. In this case, you can use the pctl list command to list all templates on the Parallels server and find the necessary one:

# pctl list -t

{4ad11c28-9f0e-4086-84ea-9c0487644026} win-2003 template1

{64bd8fea-6047-45bb-a144-7d4bba49c849} rhel template3

{6d3c9d6f-921a-484d-9772-bc7096f68df1} win-2003 template2

In this example, 3 virtual machine templates exist on the Parallels server. The information on these templates is presented in the form of a table with the following columns (from left to right): the template ID, the operating system contained in the template, and the template name.