User Manual

Creating Virtual Machine 77
Parallels Tools Overview
Tool Description
Clipboard Synchronization Tool
The Clipboard Synchronization Tool syncs the guest OS
clipboard and the primary OS clipboard, allowing you to
easily exchange texts and pictures between the primary OS
and the guest OS. Currently you can only exchange .bmp
pictures having up to a 128KB size.
In you enable the Clipboard Synchronization Tool in all of
your guest OSes, all of them will share the same clipboard
with primary OS.
In all the Windows guest OSes, this tool is installed
automatically when you perform Parallels Tools installation.
In OS/2 and eComStation you must install it manually.
Time Synchronization Tool
The Time Synchronization Tool allows the guest OS to keep
the same system time as the primary OS. Without this tool
the guest OS system time may differ from that of the primary
OS.
This tool also allows you to maintain a constant difference
b
etween the guest OS system time and the primary OS
system time. You may configure this tool while the guest OS
is running. See
Time Synchronization Tool Options (page
163) to learn how perform this task.
Note. Before starting the Parallels Time Synchronization
Tool, all other time synchronization services must be stopped
in order to avoid potential conflicts.
Video Driver
The best graphical mode available in Windows NT and 2000
guest operating systems without this driver is 16-color VGA
with 640x480 resolution. The video driver allows Parallels
Workstation to use SVGA graphical modes in guest OS
monitors.
In Windows XP/2003 the video driver is required for the
mouse tool and is chosen automatically when you select the
mouse tool installation.
Note. If you install the video driver you will not be able to
use VGA modes. To return to VGA, you must uninstall the
Parallels Tools.