Integrating Mac OS X and Your Virtual Machine

Parallels Desktop provides a number of features that ensure better integration between Mac OS X and your virtual machine.

The first step in integrating your virtual machine with Mac OS X is the installation of Parallels Tools in your virtual machine. Parallels Tools are a set of utilities that provide basic integration of Mac OS X and the virtual machines. Parallels Tools are available for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X guest operating systems.

For Windows virtual machines, Parallels Tools also provide a set of advanced integration features that make your work with Mac OS and Windows even more coherent. These include SmartSelect, Coherence, Shared Applications, and others.

In this version of Parallels Desktop, you can use the mouse wheel horizontal scrolling when working with virtual machine applications windows.