User`s guide

Principles of Working With Parallels Desktop 36
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.