Viewing Shared Folders in Guest OS

There are three ways to view the contents of the shared folders in the guest OS.

Easy Way 1

Click the Parallels Shared Folders icon on the desktop of the running guest OS and you will see all your shared folders.

Easy Way 2

If you select Map folders to drive letters in the Shared Folders pane of Virtual Machine Configuration, shared folders will be displayed as new disks with drive letters assigned every time you open up My Computer in the guest operating system.

General Way

1. In the virtual machine, open Windows Explorer .
2. In Explorer, select My Networks Places , then select Entire Network, and find Parallels Shared Folders .
3. Click Parallels Shared Folders to view the list of shared folders available in your virtual machine.

Note: To be able to write to a shared folder inside a virtual machine, make sure that the Read Only check box for this folder is cleared in the Virtual Machine Configuration dialog.