Creating a Virtual Machine
To create a new virtual machine in Parallels Server for Mac Bare Metal Edition, do the following:
- Create a virtual machine configuration. To create a virtual machine configuration, you can use either the
pctl create command or Parallels Management Console. - Install an operating system in the virtual machine. This operation can be performed using Parallels Management Console only.
The example below shows you how to create a new virtual machine configuration using pctl create :
# pctl create MyVM --distribution win-2008 --location /vz/VMs
Creating the virtual machine...
Generate the VM configuration for win-2008.
The VM has been successfully created.
This will create a virtual machine with the name of MyVM , adjust its configuration for installing the Windows Server 2008 operating system in it, and place all virtual-machine-related files in the /vz/VMs directory. Now you can use Parallels Management Console to install Windows Server 2008 OS in this virtual machine. For information on how you can do it, see the Parallels Management Console User's Guide or Getting Started With Parallels Management Console guide.
Note: For more information on options you can pass to pctl create when creating virtual machines, see the Parallels Command Line Reference Guide.
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