About This Guide

This Guide is aimed at a wide range of users who want to use Parallels Workstation Extreme to create, configure, and run Parallels virtual machines.

Abbreviations used in the text

In the present guide, the following abbreviations are used:

• OS is used instead of operating system in long sentences where using it will not change the meaning of the sentence.
• VM is used instead of virtual machine in long sentences where using it will not change the meaning of the sentence.

Definitions

Primary operating system (primary OS): In this Guide this term is used to refer to the operating system that controls the I/O devices of the computer and that is loaded when the physical computer is turned on.

Guest operating system (guest OS): The term is used to refer to an operating system that runs under the virtual machine control.