Browsing Virtual Hard Disks in Finder

For easy access to the files of your virtual machines, you can mount their hard disks in Mac OS X Finder, together with other disks and storage devices.

If you want your virtual hard disks to be mounted to Mac OS X Desktop and appear among the mounted volumes in Finder when the virtual machine is running, you should perform the following actions:

1. Open the Shared Folders pane of the Virtual Machine Configuration dialog and enable the Mount virtual disks to Mac OS X desktop option.
2. Open the Finder Preferences, click General on the toolbar and select the Connected servers option in the list of items displayed on the desktop.

If you want to mount the virtual hard disks manually, use Parallels Mounter:

1. Right-click the virtual machine file (PVM) and choose Open with > Parallels Mounter from the shortcut menu.
2. To view and work with the contents of a mounted volume, select the volume's icon in the sidebar of the Finder window.

   Note: If you copy files to a Windows virtual machine using Parallels Explorer or Parallels Mounter, you need to log in to Windows as an administrator to be able to open them inside the virtual machine.

3. To unmount the volume, click the Eject button next to the volume's name in the sidebar.

Note: You can use Parallels Mounter to mount volumes associated with Parallels Desktop virtual machines only. To browse third-party virtual machines, use Parallels Explorer.

For more information about Parallels Mounter, refer to Parallels Explorer User's Guide.

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