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Glossary 32
Primary operating system (primary OS). An physical computer operating system where Parallels
Server application is installed.
PVS file. A virtual machine configuration file that contains information about the virtual
machine resources, devices and other settings.
Shared networking. Virtual machine network connection mode that allows the virtual machine to
use the host computer network connections.
Virtual hard disk. A file or a group of files that emulates virtual machine's hard disk.
Virtual Machine. A virtualized PC environment in which an operating system can be installed
and run just like in a physical computer.
Virtual machine files. Files stored in the virtual machine folder. Virtual machine has at least two
files: configuration file and virtual hard disk file.
Virtual machine template. A virtual machine that can be cloned to multiple virtual machines that
will have the same configuration that the virtual machine template had.
VM. See Virtual Machine.