Support for Virtual and Real DisksThis section lists the types of disks that can be used by Parallels virtual machines and provides the information about basic operations that you can perform with these disks. Supported Types of Hard Disks Parallels virtual machines use virtual hard disks as their hard disks. Virtual Hard Disks The capacity of a virtual hard disk can be set from 100 MB and up to 2 TB. Virtual hard disks can be either plain or expanding . When you create a virtual machine in Express Windows or Express Linux , or Typical mode (in New Virtual Machine Wizard ), the disk is created in the expanding format.
Split disks
A virtual disk of either format can be a single-piece disk or a split disk. A split disk is cut into 2 GB pieces and is stored as a single
CD/DVD Discs and Their Images A virtual machine can access real CD/DVD discs and images of CD/DVD discs. There are no limitations on using multisession CD/DVD discs. Virtual machines can play back audio CDs without any limitations on copy-protected discs. Parallels virtual machines support CD/DVD disc images in the ISO and DMG formats. They may also support CD/DVD disc images in the CUE and CCD formats. Floppy Disks and Floppy Disk Images Parallels virtual machines can use two types of floppy disks:
Floppy disk images are treated like real diskettes. Virtual machines support floppy disk image files that have
Note: Parallels Management Console cannot create images of real diskettes. |
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