User`s guide

Configuring the Virtual Machine 181
Warning! The specified password is very important. You must record it. Without this
password, you will not be able to launch the virtual machine.
For more details about encrypting virtual machines, refer to Encrypting a Virtual Machine (p.
127).
If y
ou want to prevent Virtual Machine Configuration from unauthorized changes, click the
Lock icon
at the bottom of the window. The next time someone wants to change the
settings in any pane of Virtual Machine Configuration, an administrator's password will be
required.
Sharing Settings
Sharing settings can be configured for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X guest operating systems.
To edit these settings, do the following:
1 Open the Virtual Machine menu or Alt-click (Option-click) the Parallels icon in the Mac
menu bar (in the Crystal view mode) and click Configure.
2 In the Virtual Machine Configuration window, click Options and select the settings name in
the sidebar.
Note: To be able to edit the Sharing settings, you should have Parallels Tools (p. 75) installed in
the virtual machine and the Isolate Mac from Windows (or Isolate Mac from Linux for Linux
virtual machines) option disabled in the Security pane (p. 179).
You can also change the sharing settings at runtime. To learn how to do it, refer to the Changing
the Configuration at Runtime section (p. 102)