User`s guide

Integrating Mac OS X and Your Virtual Machine 157
6 The folder appeared in the User-defined Mac OS X folders table. Click OK in the Virtual
Machine Configuration dialog to save the changes, and quit the dialog.
7 Now you can start your virtual machine and view the shared folders in the guest OS.
Viewing Shared Folders in Windows Guest OS
1 After you have created a shared folder, start your Windows virtual machine, and you will
see the Parallels Shared Folders shortcut on the Windows desktop.
2 Double-clicking this shortcut will lead you to the \\.psf directory where all your shared
folders are stored.
Note: To be able to save files to a shared folder from inside the virtual machine, make sure that
the Read-Only option is disabled.
Viewing Shared Folders in Linux Guest OS
1 After you have created a shared folder, start your Linux virtual machine.
2 Shared folders will be automatically mounted to the /media/psf or /mnt/psf directory
upon the virtual machine start.
Sharing Windows Disks to Mac OS
If you want to access your Windows virtual machine's volumes from Mac OS X, you can enable
inverse sharing. To do so:
1 Start Parallels Desktop, and open a virtual machine.
2 Open the Virtual Machine Configuration dialog by:
 choosing Configure from the Virtual Machine menu, or
 clicking the Configure button on the toolbar of the virtual machine main window.
3 In the Virtual Machine Configuration dialog, click the Options button, and select the Shared
Folders pane.
4 Select the Access Windows folders from Mac option to enable access to all virtual disks and
partitions available in the virtual machine from your Mac. You will be able to find the
virtual machine disks in the virtual machine PVM bundle. Locate the virtual machine bundle
in Finder, right-click its name, select Show Package Contents from the context menu, and
open the Windows Disks folder.
Note: By default, virtual machines' bundles are stored in the
/Users/<Username>/Documents/Parallels/ folder or in the /Users/Shared
folder. To locate the virtual machine bundle, right-click its name in the Parallels Virtual
Machines list, and select Show in Fider from the context menu.
5 You can also select Mount virtual disks to Mac OS X desktop to mount the shared virtual hard
disks to your Mac OS X desktop. After you enable this option, the virtual machine's volumes
will be accessible from the Mac OS X desktop where they will appear as connected
volumes.
Windows network shares cannot be mounted.
Note: If the virtual machine's volumes are not mounted on Mac OS X desktop, go to Finder >
Preferences > General and make sure that the Connected servers option is selected.