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Working With Virtual Machines 127
Encrypting the Virtual Machine
Parallels Desktop allows you to protect your virtual machines from unauthorized use. If you
store any important data in a virtual machine, you are highly recommended to encrypt the virtual
machine and unauthorized users will have access neither to the virtual machine nor to its data.
Encrypting a Virtual Machine
To encrypt a virtual machine, follow these steps:
1 Make sure the virtual machine is shut down.
2 Choose Configure from the Virtual Machine menu to open the Virtual Machine Configuration
dialog.
3 Go to the Options tab and click Security.
4 In the Security pane (p. 179), click Turn On, specify
a password, and click OK.
Warning! The specified password is very important. You must record it. Without this
password, you will not be able to launch the virtual machine.
After that, the virtual machine will be encrypted. To start the encrypted virtual machine, you
will always have to enter the specified password.
Changing Password for an Encrypted Virtual Machine
To change password for an encrypted virtual machine, follow these steps:
1 Select the virtual machine (but do not start it!) and choose Configure from the Virtual
Machine menu to open the Virtual Machine Configuration dialog.
2 Go to the Options tab and click Security.
3 In the Security pane (p. 179), click Change Pa
ssword, specify a new password, and click OK.
Removing Encryption from a Virtual Machine
To remove encryption from a virtual machine, follow these steps:
1 Select the virtual machine (but do not start it!) and choose Configure from the Virtual
Machine menu to open the Virtual Machine Configuration dialog.
2 Go to the Options tab and click Security.
3 In the Security pane (p. 179), click Turn Off.
Important Information
If you clone (p. 129) an encrypted virtual machine, the virtual machine clone will be also
encrypted.
If you convert an encrypted virtual machine to a template (p. 130) and then deploy it to multiple
virtual m
achines, the resulting virtual machines will be also encrypted.