Parallels Tools Overview

Parallels Tools are a suite 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 settings of the host computer, and share the host computer disks and folders with its virtual machines.

Parallels Tools include the utilities listed below. Many of these utilities are available for the most popular Windows and Linux operating systems.

Mouse Synchronization Tool	Windows, Linux	Mouse Synchronization Tool captures the mouse input in the virtual machine each time the pointer moves over to the guest OS window and automatically releases the input when the pointer moves out of the guest OS window.
Time Synchronization Tool	Windows, Linux	Time Synchronization Tool enables you to customize your virtual machine and the host computer time settings. With this tool, you can: Automatically synchronize the time settings of your virtual machine with the host computer time settings. Set up and maintain the time difference between your host computer and the guest OS installed in your virtual machine.
Clipboard Synchronization Tool	Windows, Linux	Clipboard Synchronization Tool enables you to easily exchange texts between: different virtual machines irrespective of the guest operating systems installed in them. a virtual machine and the physical computer hosting this virtual machine.
Dynamic Resolution Tool	Windows, Linux	Dynamic Resolution Tool enables you to work with dynamic resolution. When you resize the guest OS window by dragging its lower right corner, the guest OS window resolution changes automatically. Note: If dynamic resolution does not work when switching to the Full Screen mode in virtual machines with Linux guest operating system installed, go to the Video pane of Virtual Machine Configuration and increase the amount of video memory available to the virtual machine's video card up to 16 MB.
Shared Folders Tool	Windows, Linux	Shared Folders Tool enables you to share the primary OS folders to access them from the guest OS. With this tool, you can access the host computer shared folders from the virtual machine.
Shared Profile Tool	Windows	Shared Profile Tool enables you to map some of the folders in the physical computer home folder to your user folders in the virtual machine, which allows you to access the physical computer home folders right from your virtual machine.
Parallels Compressor	Windows	The Parallels Compressor utility enables you to reduce the size of your virtual machine's hard disk.

After the Parallels Tools installation, the following features are available for settings up in Parallels Workstation Extreme.

SmartMount

Windows,

Linux

SmartMount feature enables the automatic detection and mounting of removable devices in your virtual machines.

Parallels Tools can be installed in all Windows and Linux guest operating systems officially supported by Parallels Workstation Extreme.

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