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Installing Parallels Tools

If you are creating a Parallels virtual machine, you are also recommended to install Parallels Tools. Parallels Tools are a set 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 setting of the host computer, and share clipboard of your computer with the virtual machine's clipboard.

Parallels Tools are available for the following guest operating systems:

Windows

  • Windows 2000
  • Windows Server 2003
  • Windows XP
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows Server 2008

Linux

Any supported Linux guest operating systems that have the following packages installed:

  • X.org 6.7 and later
  • glibc2.4 and later

Mac

Any supported Mac OS X guest operating systems.

Installing Parallels Tools

To install Parallels Tools in a virtual machine, use the pctl installtools command. For example, to install these tools in the MyVM virtual machine, you can run this command:

# pctl installtools MyVM

For more information on Parallels Tools, refer to the Parallels Management Console User's Guide.