Toolbar

The Parallels Management Console toolbar has buttons for the most frequent commands used to start, stop, and otherwise manage a virtual machine and its window appearance.

Most of the toolbar buttons become enabled only when you start the virtual machine. If you click a toolbar button, it becomes visibly pressed.

The default toolbar buttons:

Start . Use this button to start the virtual machine if it is stopped, paused or suspended.

Shut Down . Use this button to shut down your guest OS correctly.

Suspend . Use this button to put your virtual machine into the sleep mode for a certain period of time. If you need to restart the host computer, you may temporarily suspend your virtual machines and easily resume them after the restart.

Detach Console . Use this button to show the Console tab of the Parallels Management Console window in a separate window.

Full Screen . Use this button to switch the virtual machine to the Full Screen mode. To return back to the Window mode, press Alt+Enter. The key combination for switching to the Full Screen mode and back can be changed in the Preferences dialog available from the File menu (or from the Management Console menu if Parallels Management Console is installed on a Mac).

Server Level . Use this button to quickly switch from the virtual machine summary pane to the summary pane of the server this virtual machine belongs to.

You can easily add other buttons to the toolbar: just right-click the toolbar, choose Customize Toolbar from the shortcut menu, and drag the items you need to the toolbar:

Restart . Use this button to restart the fully loaded guest operating system.

Pause . Use this button to pause the virtual machine. Use this button when you need to instantly release the primary OS resources used by this virtual machine.

Stop . Use this button to stop the virtual machine in cases when the machine does not run properly and prevents you from shutting it down.

Note: If you click this button when the virtual machine is running, you may lose all the unsaved data. To turn off the virtual machine, use the shutdown procedure specified for the guest OS installed in it or use the Shut Down button.

Reset . Use this button for hard reset of your virtual machine in cases when the machine does not run properly and prevents you from resetting it properly.

If you often work with snapshots, you can drag any of the three snapshot buttons to the toolbar as well:

Take Snapshot . Use this button to create a snapshot for the virtual machine.

Revert to Snapshot . Use this button to roll back the changes made to the virtual machine since the moment the last snapshot was made.

Manage Snapshots . Use this button to open Virtual Machine Snapshots. For more information, refer to the Working with Snapshots section .