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Glossary

Guest operating system (Guest OS). An operating system installed inside a virtual machine. It can be any of the supported Windows, Linux, or Mac operating systems.

Hardware virtualization. A virtualization technology allowing you to virtualize physical servers at the hardware level. Hardware virtualization provides the necessary environment for creating and managing Parallels virtual machines.

Parallels Management Console. A Parallels Server for Mac Bare Metal Edition management and monitoring tool with graphical user interface. Parallels Management Console is cross–platform and can run on Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Mac computers.

Parallels Server. A hardware virtualization solution that enables you to efficiently use your physical server's hardware resources by sharing them between multiple virtual machines created on this server.

Parallels server (or physical server or server). A server where the Parallels Server for Mac Bare Metal Edition software is installed for hosting Parallels virtual machines.

Parallels Server for Mac Bare Metal Edition license. A special license that you should install on the physical server to be able to start using Parallels Server for Mac Bare Metal Edition. Every physical server must have its own license installed.

Virtual machine (VM). A computer emulated by Parallels Server for Mac Bare Metal Edition. A virtual machine is functionally identical to an isolated standalone computer, with its operating system, IP addresses, processes, files, its own users database, its own configuration files, its own applications, system libraries, and so on.