User`s guide

Setting Up a Virtual Machine 99
Coherence Tool Windows The Coherence tool hides your Windows virtual
machine's window leaving only the virtual machine's
applications windows visible side-by-side with your
Mac OS X applications. This tool enables you to work
in Windows applications coherently with your Mac
OS X applications.
Shared Profile Tool Windows Shared Profile Tool enables you to map some of the
folders in your Mac home folder to your user folders
in the virtual machine, which allows you to access
your Mac home folders right from your virtual
machine.
Shared Applications Tool Windows Shared Applications Tool enables you to specify
default applications, including those installed in the
virtual machine, for different types of files. With this
tool, you can make some types of files open in the
Mac OS X applications by default, and others in the
Windows applications by default.
Shared Internet Applications
Tool
Windows Shared Internet Applications Tool enables you to
specify default Internet browsers, including those
installed in the virtual machine, for different types of
Internet pages. For example, you may set the http
pages to open in your default Mac OS X Internet
browser, and ftp pages to open in the Internet
browser installed in your virtual machine.
After the Parallels Tools installation, the following features are available for settings up in
Parallels Desktop.
SmartMount Windows,
Linux,
Mac OS X
SmartMount enables the automatic detection and
mounting of removable devices in your virtual
machines.
Parallels Tools can be installed in the following Windows guest operating systems:
Windows Server 2008
Windows Vista
Windows XP
Windows Server 2003
Windows 2000
Note: If Parallels Tools are not installed in the aforementioned Windows guest operating
systems, the virtual machines with these guest OSs will not get connected to the network.
Parallels Tools can be installed in Linux guest operating systems that comply with the following
requirements:
glibc 2.3.4 and later
libstdc++ 3.4.6 and later (libstdc++.so.6)
gcc 3.4.6 and later (including C++ support)
make 3.80
X Window System X11R6.7, X11R6.8, X11R6.8.99, X11R7.0, X11R7.1, X11R7.2 (1.3),
X11R7.3 (1.4)