User`s guide

Integrating Mac OS and Virtual Machine 168

Note: If you are browsing the contents of a suspended virtual machine in Finder, you cannot

delete, move, or otherwise modify its files.

4 To unmount the volume, use the Eject button next to the disk icon.

Note: If a hard disk that has several volumes was mounted and you want to open it or the

virtual machine using it in Parallels Desktop, you should disconnect its volumes one by one

by clicking the Eject button.

Copying and Pasting Between Mac

and Windows

For closer integration between Mac OS X and your Windows guest OS, Parallels Desktop

provides the possibility to copy and paste formatted text and pictures and drag and drop files

between Mac OS X and the virtual machine operating system.

Note: To use these functionalities, you should have Parallels Tools (p. 74) installed in the virtual

machine, the Isolate Mac from Windows option disabled in the Security pane (p. 179), and the

Share Mac clipboard and Preserve text formatting options enabled in the Advanced pane (p. 193).

Copying and Pasting Formatted Text

When you work with your Mac and Windows-based virtual machines side by side, you may

need to copy and paste text between them.

Parallels Desktop allows you to copy and paste text of any size between Mac and Windows

applications. This text can be italic/bold/underlined, it can be of various colors/fonts/sizes and

contain spaces.

You can copy and paste text from:

 Mac OS X applications to the virtual machine applications (Word, Excel, Outlook, Notepad,

Wordpad, etc)

 the virtual machine applications to Mac OS X applications (TextEdit, Safari, Mozilla

Firefox, MS Office for Mac, etc)

Copying and Pasting Pictures

When you work with your Mac and virtual machines side by side, you may need to copy and

paste different pictures between them.

Parallels Desktop allows you to copy and paste pictures between Mac and Windows picture or

graphic editors.

Dragging and Dropping Files

Close integration of Mac and Windows-based virtual machines allows you to drag and drop

different files between them.