USB & Bluetooth

A virtual machine can emulate only one USB controller, which provides you with the possibility to connect up to 12 USB 3.0, 15 USB 2.0, and 32 USB 1.1 devices to the virtual machine.

To edit the device settings, do the following:

1. Open the Actions menu or click the Parallels icon in the Mac menu bar and choose Configure .
2. In the Virtual Machine Configuration dialog, click Hardware and select this device name in the sidebar.

Note: If this device is absent, you can add it to Virtual Machine Configuration. For detailed information on how to add a device, refer to Adding and Removing Devices .

In the USB & Bluetooth pane, you can:

• Disable camera sharing.
• Enable Bluetooth devices sharing.
• Enable USB 3.0 support.

  Once USB 3.0 support is enabled, you can immediately start using USB 3.0 devices with Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012. To be able to use USB 3.0 devices with Windows 7/Vista/XP, you must also install the USB 3.0 driver in Windows. The driver can be found here .

  Note: You can also use USB 3.0 devices in the guest versions of OS X 10.7.4 with the latest updates installed, OS X 10.8, and Linux guest operating systems that support USB 3.0.

If you want to prevent Virtual Machine Configuration from unauthorized changes, click the Lock icon at the bottom of the window. The next time someone wants to change the settings in any pane of Virtual Machine Configuration, an administrator's password will be required.