Parallels Transporter Working Principles

Parallels Transporter package includes two applications:

• Parallels Transporter. This application transfers data stored on a physical computer or a volume to a Parallels virtual machine or virtual hard disk.
• Parallels Transporter Agent. This application collects essential system data on the remote computer (the source computer ) or volume you are planning to migrate and transfers it to Parallels Transporter installed on the computer that will host the resulting virtual machine or virtual hard disk (the host computer ).

Parallels Transporter is provided as a Parallels Workstation Extreme utility and is installed automatically on the host computer during the Parallels Workstation Extreme installation.

On the source computer, you can install a separate package containing Parallels Transporter and Parallels Transporter Agent. You can download the most recent version of Parallels Transporter package from Parallels Download Center :

• for a PC with a Windows OS installed - Parallels-Transporter-Full-x.x.xxxx-en_US.exe
• for a PC with a Linux OS installed - p arallels-transporter-xxxx.xxxxxx.run

Each of these packages contains Parallels Transporter and Parallels Transporter Agent. Depending on what scenario will be used, install Parallels Transporter Agent or both on the source PC. Before you start the migration, make sure that your the host computer and the source PC are connected by a network cable and can access each other over the network. Check that you have enough free disk space on the host computer to allocate the resulting images of the migrated volumes.

For more detailed information, please refer to Parallels Transporter User's Guide.