User Manual

Managing Virtual Machines 100
Hard Disk Images
The current version of Parallels Workstation creates and uses only virtual hard disks stored in
.hdd files. The size of a virtual disk can be set within the range of 20 MB to 128 GB.
Physical hard disks cannot be used by the current version of Parallels Workstation. To transfer
data from the real hard drive to virtual machine use
Shared folders (page 110) or create an
image of a real disk with
Parallels Image Tool (page 174) and attach it to the virtual machine as
a data disk.