Status Bar

When the virtual machine is running, the status bar of its window displays the information about devices connected to the virtual machine.

The following devices have the icons on the status bar:

• keyboard
• floppy disk drive
• CD/DVD-ROM
• hard disk
• network adapter
• serial port
• parallel port
• sound card
• USB controller
• shared folders

If you see the icon in the status bar, it means that Parallels Tools are installed in your virtual machine.

You can connect or disconnect some of the virtual machine devices at runtime by clicking their icons in the status bar and choosing the respective commands from the shortcut menu. The picture below shows the shortcut menu for the CD/DVD-ROM drive.

You can connect ISO images of CD/DVD discs to the virtual machine CD/DVD-ROM drive or connect floppy images to its floppy disk drive in the following way: drag the required image file over the CD/DVD-ROM drive icon or the floppy disk drive icon in the status bar. For more information, please refer to the Changing Configuration at Runtime section .