User`s guide

Operations on Virtual Machines and Containers 27
1 Creating a virtual machine configuration. To create a virtual machine configuration, you can
use either the pctl create command or Parallels Management Console.
2 Installing an operating system in the virtual machine. This operation can be performed using
Parallels Management Console only.
The example below shows you how to create a new virtual machine configuration using pctl
create:
# pctl create MyVM --distribution win-2008 --location /vz/VMs
Creating the virtual machine...
Generate the VM configuration for win-2008.
The VM has been successfully created.
This will create a virtual machine with the name of MyVM, adjust its configuration for installing
the Windows Server 2008 operating system in it, and place all virtual-machine-related files in
the /vz/VMs directory. Now you can use Parallels Management Console to install Windows
Server 2008 OS in this virtual machine. For information on how you can do it, see the Parallels
Management Console User's Guide or Getting Started With Parallels Management Console
guide.
Note: For more information on options you can pass to pctl create when creating virtual
machines, see the Parallels Command Line Reference Guide.