User`s guide

Operations on Virtual Machines and Containers 80
Adding a New Device
This section provides information on adding new devices to your virtual machines. You can add
new virtual devices to your virtual machine using the pctl set command. The options
responsible for adding particular devices are listed in the following table:
Option Name Description
hdd
Adds a new hard disk drive to the virtual machine. You can either
connect an existing image to the virtual machine or create a new
one.
cdrom
Adds a new CD/DVD-ROM drive to the virtual machine.
net
Adds a new network adapter to the virtual machine.
fdd
Adds a new floppy disk drive to the virtual machine.
serial
Adds a new serial port to the virtual machine.
parallel
Adds a new parallel port to the virtual machine.
sound
Adds a new sound device to the virtual machine.
usb
Adds a new USB controller to the virtual machine.
For example, you can execute the following command to add a new virtual disk to the MyVM
virtual machine:
# pctl set MyVM --device-add hdd
Creating hdd1 (+) scsi:0 image='/var/parallels/MyVM.pvm/harddisk1.hdd
Create the expanding disk, 32768Mb...
The VM has been successfully configured.
This command creates a new virtual disk with the following default parameters:
 name: hdd1
 disk type: SCSI
 image file name and location: /var/parallels/MyVM.pvm/harddisk1.hdd
 disk format: expanding
 disk capacity: 32768 MB
You can redefine some of these parameters by specifying specific options during the command
execution. For example, to create an IDE virtual disk that will have the capacity of 64 GB, you
can run this command:
# pctl set MyVM --device-add hdd --size 64000 --iface ide
Creating hdd1 (+) ide:1 image='/var/parallels/MyVM.pvm/harddisk1.hdd
Create the expanding disk, 64000Mb...
The VM has been successfully configured.
The virtual disk has been added to your virtual machine. However, before starting to use it, you
must initialize the disk. Refer to the next subsection for information on how you can do it.
When managing devices, keep in mind the following:
 Detailed information on all options that can be passed to pctl set when creating a new
virtual machine device is provided in the Parallels Command Line Reference Guide.
 You can connect up to 4 IDE devices and up to 15 SCSI devices (virtual disks or CD/DVD-
ROM drives) to a virtual machine.