Starting Your Virtual Machine and Shutting It Down

Starting the Virtual Machine

To start the virtual machine, select it in the Parallels Workstation Extreme sidebar and

• click the Start button on the Parallels Workstation Extreme toolbar or
• choose Start from the Virtual Machine menu.

After starting the virtual machine, it will boot into the guest operating system installed in this virtual machine. If no guest operating system is installed in the virtual machine, you will see the following message: " No boot device is available..." .

Notes: 1. The virtual machine can be powered on only if you activated your copy of Parallels Workstation Extreme with permanent or trial activation key. See the Activating Parallels Workstation Extreme section in Parallels Workstation Extreme User's Guide .

2. It is not recommended that you start your virtual machines from an external storage device, this may result in low performance and unsteady operation.

Shutting Down the Virtual Machine

To turn off the virtual machine, you can:

• use the standard shutdown procedure for the guest operating system installed in your virtual machine,
• click the Shut Down button in the Parallels Workstation Extreme toolbar, or
• choose Shut Down from the Virtual Machine menu.