Security Settings

The Security settings determine the overall level of virtual machine's isolation from Mac OS X. Using the slider on this pane you can change the overall security level, which will have effect on certain features related to sharing, including Shared Folders, Shared Profile, and Shared Applications.

Note: To use the functionality available on the Security pane, you should have Parallels Tools installed in the virtual machine.

You can specify one of the following security levels for your virtual machine:

• High. This level provides the highest level of isolation between the virtual machine and the physical computer. With this level chosen, the Shared Folders, Shared Profile and Shared Applications features are not available for setting up. Thus, no folders and applications on the physical computer can be accessed from inside the virtual machine.
• Elevated. When this security level is set, you can set up Shared Applications and access only those shared folders on the physical computer that you manually define on the Shared Folders pane. The Shared Profile feature is disabled.

  Note: Enabling the Shared Profile feature, changes the level of security from Elevated to Medium.

• Medium. When this security level is set, you can access all the data stored on the physical computer from inside the virtual machine. This is the default security level for all newly created virtual machines that allows you to set up Shared Folders, Shared Profile and Shared Applications.

Note: The security level can be configured for Windows guest operating systems only.

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