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Contents 5

Hard Disk Settings........................................................................................................................ 129

Serial Port Settings........................................................................................................................ 133

Network Adapter Settings............................................................................................................. 135

Parallel Port Settings..................................................................................................................... 137

Sound Settings .............................................................................................................................. 139

USB Settings................................................................................................................................. 141

Generic SCSI Device Settings ...................................................................................................... 142

Adding and Removing Devices................................................................................................................ 143

Add Hardware Wizard.................................................................................................................. 144

Adding a Virtual Hard Disk Drive................................................................................................ 145

Adding a CD/DVD-ROM Drive................................................................................................... 150

Adding a Floppy Disk Drive......................................................................................................... 152

Adding a Network Adapter........................................................................................................... 153

Adding a Sound Device ................................................................................................................ 155

Adding a Serial Port...................................................................................................................... 157

Adding a Parallel Port................................................................................................................... 158

Adding a USB Controller.............................................................................................................. 159

Adding a Generic SCSI Device .................................................................................................... 160

Removing Devices........................................................................................................................ 161

Networking in a Virtual Machine............................................................................................................. 162

Shared Networking ....................................................................................................................... 163

Bridged Ethernet Networking....................................................................................................... 165

Host-Only Networking.................................................................................................................. 166

Managing Virtual Machines 167

Cloning a Virtual Machine....................................................................................................................... 168

Removing a Virtual Machine................................................................................................................... 170

Deleting a Virtual Machine...................................................................................................................... 171

Working With Virtual Machine Templates.............................................................................................. 174

Creating a Virtual Machine Template........................................................................................... 175

Deploying a Virtual Machine Template........................................................................................ 177

Managing Virtual Machines From the Tray............................................................................................. 179

Optimizing Performance With Adaptive Hypervisor............................................................................... 180

Working With Snapshots ......................................................................................................................... 180

Making Snapshots......................................................................................................................... 181

Managing Snapshots..................................................................................................................... 182

Using Parallels Add-Ons 185

Using Parallels Image Tool...................................................................................................................... 185

Increasing the Virtual Hard Disk Capacity................................................................................... 186

Managing the Virtual Hard Disk Properties.................................................................................. 187

Changing the Virtual Hard Disk Format....................................................................................... 188

Reducing the Virtual Hard Disk Size............................................................................................ 189

Using Parallels Transporter...................................................................................................................... 189

Parallels Transporter Working Principles..................................................................................... 190

Migration Scenarios...................................................................................................................... 191

Starting Parallels Transporter........................................................................................................ 193

Using Parallels Compressor..................................................................................................................... 193

Guest Operating System Requirements ........................................................................................ 194

Parallels Compressor Working Principles .................................................................................... 194

How to Run Parallels Compressor................................................................................................ 195