User`s guide
Configuring a Virtual Machine 182
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 the Mac OS X Desktop, go to Finder
> Preferences > General and make sure that the Connected servers option is selected.
If you want to prevent Virtual Machine Configuration from further unauthorized changes, click
the Lock icon
at the bottom of the window. The next time someone wants to change the
settings on any pane of Virtual Machine Configuration, an administrator's password will be
required.
Shared Profile Settings
Using the Shared Profile Settings, you can make Mac OS X desktop and some of the Home
folder items accessible directly from the Desktop and the corresponding folders in your
Windows guest OS.
Note: To use the functionality available on the Shared Profile pane, you should have Parallels
Tools (p. 98) installed in the virtual machine and the Isolate Mac from Windows option disabled
in the Security pane (p. 179).