User`s guide

Managing Virtual Machines 174
Working With Virtual Machine
Templates
Parallels Desktop makes your work with virtual machines even more convenient by enabling
you to create templates of Parallels virtual machines.
A template, like a virtual machine, has hardware and may have operating system and software
installed. The only difference is that it cannot be started. A template can be easily converted to
an ordinary virtual machine and vice versa.
Using one template, you can create as many virtual machines as you need and the disk space of
the host computer allows. The virtual machines created using such a template will have the same
hardware configuration, operating system, and software that this template has.
You can convert an existing virtual machine into a template or make a clone of the virtual
machine that will be used as a template and continue using the original virtual machine.