Parallels Power Panel - 6.1 User's Manual

Parallels Power Panel 6.1

User's Guide

April 08, 2014

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Contents

Introduction ............................................................................................................... 6

About Parallels Power Panel ............................................................................................ 6

About This Guide ............................................................................................................ 7

Organization of This Guide .......................................................................................................7

Documentation Conventions ....................................................................................................8

Getting Help .................................................................................................................... 8

Feedback ........................................................................................................................ 9

Getting Started With Parallels Power Panel ........................................................... 10

Logging In to Parallels Power Panel ............................................................................... 10

Parallels Power Panel Interface Overview ....................................................................... 11

Customizing Parallels Power Panel Interface ......................................................................... 13

Using Parallels Power Panel Desktop ............................................................................. 14

Customizing Parallels Power Panel Desktop .......................................................................... 15

Virtual Environment Operations .............................................................................. 16

Starting, Stopping, and Restarting Virtual Environment ................................................... 17

Virtual Environment Statuses ......................................................................................... 17

Managing Virtual Environment Files and Folders ............................................................. 19

Creating Folder ...................................................................................................................... 20

Creating Text File ................................................................................................................... 20

Editing Text File ..................................................................................................................... 20

Uploading File to Virtual Environment ..................................................................................... 20

Copying Files and Folders Inside Virtual Environment ............................................................ 21

Moving Files and Folders Inside Virtual Environment .............................................................. 21

Editing File or Folder Properties ............................................................................................. 21

Managing Containers .................................................................................................... 22

Changing Container Root/Administrator Password................................................................ 22

Reinstalling Containers .......................................................................................................... 22

Repairing Containers ............................................................................................................. 24

Backing Up and Restoring Container ..................................................................................... 24

Updating Container Software ................................................................................................ 28

Resources Overview .............................................................................................................. 28

Contents

Managing Container Applications .......................................................................................... 35

Managing Virtual Machines ............................................................................................ 38

Changing Virtual Machine Administrative password ............................................................... 39

Reinstalling Virtual Machines .................................................................................................. 39

Resources Overview .............................................................................................................. 39

Managing Container Services and Processes ....................................................... 41

Managing Container Services ........................................................................................ 42

Managing Services in Linux ................................................................................................... 42

Managing Services in Windows ............................................................................................. 44

Managing Container Processes ..................................................................................... 45

Managing Container Firewall .......................................................................................... 47

Selecting Mode ..................................................................................................................... 48

Configuring Firewall in Normal Mode ..................................................................................... 48

Adding Access Rule in Normal Mode .................................................................................... 49

Building Input Chain .............................................................................................................. 49

Building Output Chain ........................................................................................................... 51

Building Forward Chain ......................................................................................................... 52

Adding Rule in Advanced Mode ............................................................................................ 53

Editing Rule in Advanced Mode ............................................................................................. 53

Control Panels for Containers ........................................................................................ 54

Managing Plesk Control Panel ............................................................................................... 54

Logging In to Confixx Control Panel ...................................................................................... 56

Accessing Containers via SSH .............................................................................................. 56

Accessing Containers via RDP .............................................................................................. 57

Managing Virtual Machine Services and Processes .............................................. 58

Viewing System Processes ............................................................................................ 58

Control Panels for Virtual Machines ................................................................................ 59

Connecting to Virtual Machines via VNC ................................................................................ 59

Using Remote Desktop ......................................................................................................... 60

SSH Connection to Virtual Machine ....................................................................................... 61

Monitoring Operations and Viewing Logs .............................................................. 63

Viewing History of Container Status Changes ................................................................. 63

Viewing Alerts Log ......................................................................................................... 64

Viewing Actions Log ...................................................................................................... 65

Contents

Viewing Traffic Log ........................................................................................................ 65

Viewing Task Details ...................................................................................................... 66

Viewing Error Details ..................................................................................................... 67

Troubleshooting ...................................................................................................... 68

Services Inaccessibility .................................................................................................. 68

Elusive Problems ........................................................................................................... 69

Login Problems ............................................................................................................. 69

File Problems ................................................................................................................ 70

Index ........................................................................................................................ 71

Feedback ............................................................................................................... 9

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Introduction

Parallels Power Panel is a flexible and easy-to-use administration tool designed for managing single Containers and virtual machines via a web browser.

In This Chapter

About Parallels Power Panel ................................................................................... 6

About This Guide ................................................................................................... 7

Getting Help ........................................................................................................... 8

About Parallels Power Panel

Parallels Power Panel allows you to manage your virtual environments—Containers and virtual machines functionally identical to standalone servers, with their own IP addresses, processes, files, user databases, configuration files, applications, etc.—with the help of any standard Web browser on any platform. Parallels Power Panel allows you to manage virtual environments residing on physical servers running the Windows Server or Linux operating systems, or bare metal physical servers running Parallels Server Bare Metal or Parallels Cloud Server. Although Parallels Power Panel works similarly across all operating systems, there are certain features peculiar only to Windows Server or Linux.

Note: In this guide, Windows-only features are marked with the icon while Linux-only features are marked with the icon.

Parallels Power Panel supports the following browsers:

• Internet Explorer 9.x, 10.x or 11.x,

• Firefox 26 or newer,

• Safari 5.x or newer,

• Chrome 31.x or newer.

Although other browsers will most likely work as well, only those listed above have been extensively tested for compatibility with Parallels Virtual Automation.

Currently, you can manage your virtual environments in the following ways:

• Start, stop, and restart virtual environments;

Introduction

• Mount and unmount Containers in the repair mode;

Reinstall Containers;

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• Back up and restore Containers;

• Change virtual environments' root/Administrator password;

• Start, stop, and restart certain services inside virtual environments;

• List and interact with virtual environment processes;

• View current resource consumption and overuse alerts;

• View virtual environment logs and monitors;

• Customize the Parallels Power Panel interface;

• Connect to Containers by means of various control panels; (p. 54)

• Connect to virtual machines by means of various control panels (p. 59);

• etc.

Note: In this guide, the terms "root" and "Administrator" designate the main user in the Linux and Windows operating systems, respectively.

About This Guide

This guide is aimed at a wide range of users who are new to Parallels Power Panel or just want to make sure they are doing everything right.

The present document is just as easy to use, as the product itself. However, we also provide complete information about the structure and peculiarities of the guide in the following topics.

Organization of This Guide

The Parallels Power Panel User's Guide consists of the following sections

• Introduction (p. 6) provides basic information about the product and this guide.

• Getting Started With Parallels Power Panel (p. 10) provides information on logging in to

Power Panel and organizing your work.

• Virtual Environment Operations (p. 16) provides information on managing virtual

environments, such as creating, cloning, configuring, starting/stopping, reinstalling, repairing, backing up, etc.

• Managing Container Services and Processes (p. 41) provides information on managing

Container services, firewall system and control panels.

• Managing virtual Machine Services and Processes (p. 58) provides information on

managing virtual machine services and control panels.

Introduction

• Monitoring operations and Viewing logs (p. 63) provides information on virtual environment

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# rpm -V virtuozzo-release

resource consumption.

• Troubleshooting (p. 68) lists most common problems you might encounter during Parallels

Virtual Automation operations and the ways to solve them.

Documentation Conventions

Before you start using this guide, it is important to understand the documentation conventions used in it.

Formatting conventions used in this guide:

Font Meaning Example

Special Bold

Italics

Monospace

Key+Key Key combinations. Ctrl+P, Alt+F4

Selectable entities such as menu options, buttons, or list items.

Titles of chapters, sections and subsections.

Important points, terms, guide titles, command variables.

Names of commands, files, and directories.

On-screen console output in command line sessions, source code.

What you type as contrasted with onscreen console output.

Go to the Resources tab.

Read the Basic Administration chapter.

These are the so-called EZ templates. To destroy a Container, type vzctl destroy

CT_ID. Use vzctl start to start a Container.

Besides the formatting conventions, you should also know about the common document structure shared by all guides for Parallels products: chapters consist of sections, which, in turn, consist of subsections. For example, About This Guide is a section, and Documentation Conventions is a subsection.

Getting Help

Parallels Virtual Automation offers several options for accessing necessary information:

Parallels Virtual Automation Documentation

• Parallels Virtual Automation Administrator's Guide. Contains extensive information about

Parallels Virtual Automation, its usage, and troubleshooting. To access the PDF version of the document, go to the Support link in the left pane and then click the Downloads pane.

Introduction

You can download any document of the Parallels Virtual Automation documentation bundle from the Parallels website.

• Parallels Virtual Automation Installation Guides for Linux/Bare Metal and Windows. Contain

extensive information on system requirements for physical computers as well as instructions on how to install Parallels Virtual Automation on such computers.

• Getting Started With Parallels Virtual Automation. Contains the basic information how to

install, launch, and manage Parallels Virtual Automation.

• Parallels Power Panel User's Guide. Contains extensive information about Parallels Power

Panel.

• Parallels Virtual Automation Agent XML API Reference. A complete reference on all Parallels

Virtual Automation configuration files and physical server command-line utilities.

The documentation is available for download at

http://www.parallels.com/products/pva/documents/.

Parallels Knowledgebase

Visit http://kb.parallels.com/ for helpful articles on Parallels Virtual Automation, Parallels Virtuozzo Containers, Parallels Server Bare Metal, and Parallels Cloud Server.

Feedback

If you want to report typos, share comments, suggestions or ideas on improving this guide, please use the Parallels documentation feedback page at http://www.parallels.com/en/support/usersdoc/.

Using Parallels Power Panel Desktop ...................................................................... 14

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Getting Started With Parallels Power Panel

The chapter provides the information on how to log in to Power Panel and explains what interface elements you may face and how to use them in the most effective way.

In This Chapter

Logging In to Parallels Power Panel ........................................................................ 10

Parallels Power Panel Interface Overview ................................................................ 11

Logging In to Parallels Power Panel

To log in to your virtual environment:

1 Enter the IPv4 or IPv6 address (or hostname) and TCP port assigned to the virtual environment

in the address line of your browser, and press Enter. Consult your provider to get the information about the IP address and port number to use.

2 Enter the virtual environment administrator credentials: the user name (root for a Linux-based

virtual environment and Administrator for a Windows virtual environment) and the respective password. If you do not know the password, contact your provider.

After you have connected to the virtual environment, you are recommended to:

1 Change your root/Administrator password at once by following the Change password link in

the left pane of the Parallels Power Panel page.

2 Provide a valid email address on the Parallels Power Panel configuration page to be able to log

in to Parallels Power Panel if you forget your password. In case, you are unable to reach your virtual environment due to password-related problems, you can follow the Forgot your password? link on the login page, which requests you to enter your user name and the email address provided on the Parallels Power Panel configuration page. On filling in these fields you will receive a URL at the email address entered informing you how to change your password.

Also, be aware that when you log in to the Container for the first time in Parallels Power Panel, the process of updating Container's packages is being executed in order to pre-populate list of applications installed on the Container and to check possible available updates. This process should not be interrupted. Once the process is successfully completed, the Container will be accessible in Power Panel without any delays.

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Parallels Power Panel Interface Overview

The Parallels Power Panel interface has been designed for the virtual environment administrator to quickly perform all possible tasks through an intuitive navigation system.

All Parallels Power Panel pages have a menu on the left, a toolbar and a status bar on top, and the content part in the middle. If Parallels Power Panel is integrated in the Plesk control panel, the Parallels Power Panel menu will be replaced with the Plesk menu. The Parallels Power Panel menu looks like this:

Getting Started With Parallels Power Panel

Bear in mind, that depending on whether you manage a Container or a virtual machine via the

dashboard of a Container or a virtual machine where you can

Power Panel application, the section names may differ.

It provides links to Parallels Power Panel pages where you can perform various tasks. The description of the corresponding page is displayed at the bottom of the menu. All links are gathered into four groups: Container/Virtual Machine Management, Container/Virtual Machine Services, Logs, and Other, the names of the first three groups being links themselves. When performing a particular task, you may first click the name of the group to open the corresponding dashboard and then choose a task, or you may select the task at once on the menu under the corresponding group.

The links on the menu do the following:

Link Description

Container or Virtual Machine Management

Change Password Opens the page for changing the virtual environment root/administrator password.

File Manager Opens the File Manager page where you can view a list of files and directories and

Maintenance

Resources Opens the page where you can learn the current consumption of the hardware

Applications (p. 35) Container-related. Opens the page that lists the installed applications and shows their

Packages (p. 36) Container-related. Opens the page that lists software packages for this Container.

Control Panels (p. 54) Container-related. Opens the page that allows you to download and install Plesk

Container or Virtual Machine Services

System Services Container-related. Opens a list of principal services inside your virtual environment with

System Processes

Opens the Management learn more about various management tasks and perform any of them.

perform all the essential file operations.

Opens the page where you can manage your Container backups, original template files of your Container if something has gone wrong, or

Container in the so-called repair mode to perform command line checks and fixes.

resources by your Container.

statuses.

Control Panel on the Container.

Opens the Service Management dashboard, which lets you learn more about various service management tasks and perform any of them.

the opportunity to start, stop, restart any of them and to control their behavior on the virtual environment startup.

Opens a list of processes running inside your virtual environment with the opportunity to send various signals to any of them.

recover the

start your

Firewall

The Plesk control panel

Confixx control panel

VNC Console (p. 59) Opens a VNC console for connecting to your virtual machine.

Remote Desktop

Opens your firewall current settings.

This link is displayed only if the Plesk application template is installed in the virtual environment being managed. It opens the Plesk control panel login window.

This link is displayed only if the Confixx application template is installed in the Container being managed. It opens the Confixx control panel login window.

Opens a Remote Desktop session for connecting to your virtual environment via RDP.

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SSH Connection

This setting affects the date and time information found on such Parallels Power Panel pages

restoring the password, should the current user forget it. This email address pertains to the

Logs Opens the Logs dashboard where you can learn more about various logs available for

Status Changes Opens a list of status changes your virtual environment has recently undergone.

Resource Alerts Opens a list of alerts of your virtual environment overusing any hardware resources or

Tasks Log Opens a list of actions you have recently performed in Parallels Power Panel with the

Traffic Log Opens the page where you can view your traffic statistics for a specified period in the

Help Opens this help system.

Preferences Opens the page where you can customize the Parallels Power Panel interface.

Sign out Following this link logs you out of Parallels Power Panel.

Opens a ssh terminal window for connecting to your virtual environment via SSH.

your virtual environment and view any of them.

coming close to the usage limits imposed on it.

current virtual environment.

past.

The toolbar is to be found on every Parallels Power Panel screen to allow you to easily perform the operations most frequently required in the course of virtual environment management with the help of the Start, Stop, Restart, Backup and New buttons.

Customizing Parallels Power Panel Interface

Clicking the Preferences link on the Parallels Power Panel left menu opens the Parallels Power Panel interface configuration page where you can set a number of parameters related to the Parallels Power Panel interface. The options provided on the Configure page are the following:

Option Description

Interface Language As Parallels Power Panel is localized into a number of languages, this drop-down menu lets

you choose the default interface language for Parallels Power Panel. This setting affects the language of both your current Parallels Power Panel session, and all future sessions if User Default is chosen as the interface language on the Parallels Power Panel login screen.

Local Time Zone

as Status Changes, Resource Alerts, Actions Log. Choose the time zone you wish to apply when viewing different kinds of logs.

GUI Elements Style This setting is effective for different types of GUI elements found on different screens. You

may choose a visual mode for them, a textual mode, or a combination of both.

Interface Skin Here you may choose a suitable interface skin for your Parallels Power Panel interface. The

skin affects such elements as the Parallels Power Panel general layout (framed or nonframed), icons and images, and the color palette. Parallels Power Panel does not generate Windows skins, like Vista or XP.

Status Bar Refresh This setting affects the refreshing period of the status bar located at the top of any Parallels

Power Panel page (see Parallels Power Panel Interface Overview (p. 11)). If you select the Smart Update option, the status bar will be refreshed only when you follow Parallels Power Panel links, but not more than once per 60 seconds. If this option is disabled, it means that the chosen interface skin does not use frames; therefore, it is impossible to reload only part of the page.

Contact Email This field should be filled in with a correct email address to enable the functionality of

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current user only; other Parallels Power Panel users of the given Container may fill in this field

with other addresses. The link for restoring the password is located on the Parallels Power Panel login page.

After you decide on the suitable configuration and click the Submit button, the settings will be remembered for the current browser only. If you change the browser or move to another computer for working with Parallels Power Panel, the default settings will be used until you perform a new customization.

Using Parallels Power Panel Desktop

The Desktop allows you to have the most frequently used options at hand, available and organized in such an individual way that can considerably save your time reaching them. The Desktop screen displays every time you log in or on clicking on the Virtuozzo logotype. The Desktop is a remarkably customizable environment the ultimate appearance of which can be configured on the Customize

Desktop page (p. 15).

The Desktop page allows you to exercise the overall control on the virtual environment activity, state, and configuration.

Virtual Environment Summary

In this section, you can view:

• The current status of the virtual environment.

• The hostname of the physical server where the virtual environment is hosted

• The OS template the virtual environment is based on

• The IP address and the ID number of the virtual environment

Download

Here you can download the Parallels Power Panel documentation from the Parallels website.

Memo

Here you can leave important information or some memos relevant for you. Just click the Edit Memo link to type it down and then click the Save Changes link.

Actions

This section contains some useful links, such as the Change Password, Manage System Processes, Manage Files and some others. Click the Customize Desktop (p. 15) link to edit the list of links..

If you do not need some of the sections, you can fold them by clicking the triangle element in the right upper corner of every section.

Getting Started With Parallels Power Panel

Customizing Parallels Power Panel Desktop

If you clicked the Customize Desktop icon on the Parallels Power Panel toolbar to adapt its preferences to your current needs, on the Customize Desktop you can use the following options.

To start with, you can set up your Desktop appearance by placing its items either in two columns or in any of them in the Desktop Layout subsection: select the item and click the << button to move it to the left column or the >> button to move it to the right column. To further adjust the distribution of the items, use the Up and Down buttons.

Further on, you can write, or edit, anything worth memorizing in the Memo Contents field - if you want this to be seen on your Desktop, select the Show 'Memo' Section checkbox.

To place to the Desktop an action, select this action in the Available table on the left of the following section and move it to the Selected table with the >> button. The << button takes the action selected in the Selected table back to the Available table. You can regulate the actions position on the Desktop with the Up and Down buttons.

Select the Show 'Actions' Section checkbox to make the actions from the Selected table appear on your Desktop.

If you select the Show 'Virtual Environment Summary' Section checkbox, the Desktop will be displaying the summary information on the Container.

Finally, you can decide whether you need to have download links to the Parallels Power Panel documentation on your Desktop with the help of the Show 'Download' Section checkbox.

Managing Virtual Machines ..................................................................................... 38

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Virtual Environment Operations

The common Container or virtual machine operations are accessible in Parallels Power Panel from the Container/virtual machine Management accordingly.

The following Container operations are available either by following the links under the Container Management group on the menu or through the links on the Container Management dashboard itself:

• Changing the Container root/administrator password (the Change Password link);

• Working with Container files and directories (the File Manager link);

• Viewing the current resources consumption (the Resources link);

• Backing up and restoring the Container (the Maintenance link);

Reinstalling the original template files into the Container (the Maintenance link);

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Mounting and unmounting the Container in the repair mode (the Maintenance link);

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• Viewing the resource consumption (the Resources link);

• Viewing installed software packages ( the Software Packages link);

• Accessing the Container via various control panels (the Control Panels link);

The following virtual machine operations are available either by following the links under the Virtual Machine Management group on the menu or through the links on the Container Management

dashboard itself:

• Working with virtual machine files and directories (the File Manager link);

• Backing up and restoring the virtual machine (the Maintenance link);

• Changing the Container root/administrator password (the Change Password link);

• Viewing the resource consumption (the Resources link)

In This Chapter

Starting, Stopping, and Restarting Virtual Environment ............................................ 17

Virtual Environment Statuses .................................................................................. 17

Managing Virtual Environment Files and Folders ...................................................... 19

Managing Containers ............................................................................................. 22

Virtual Environment Operations

Starting, Stopping, and Restarting Virtual Environment

A virtual environment may be started up, restarted, suspended and shut down like an ordinary computer. Depending on the virtual environment state, only those operations are accessible that comply with its current state. For example, a running virtual environment cannot be started for obvious reasons, and so on. The following virtual environment states can be characterized as stable:

Status Description

Running The virtual environment is running; therefore, it may only be started or stopped.

Down The virtual environment is stopped; therefore, it may only be started.

Repairing

Besides these states, during virtual environment operations a virtual environment may be in one of the transitional states: mounting, starting, stopping, etc. When in a transitional state, you cannot perform any action on the virtual environment until the operation is finished. The description of all possible virtual environment statuses is provided in the Physical Server, Container and Virtual Machine Statuses section.

Click the Start, Stop, Suspend, or Restart button to perform the corresponding action. On clicking one of these buttons, this action is logged.

If you are managing a virtual environment residing on the physical server with the Linux operating system installed and wish to stop your virtual environment, bear in mind that there is a two-minute timeout for the virtual environment shutdown scripts to be executed. If the virtual environment is not stopped in two minutes, the system forcibly kills all the processes in the virtual environment. The virtual environment will be stopped in any case, even if it is seriously damaged. To avoid waiting for two minutes if you are operating a virtual environment that is known to be corrupt, you may use the Power Off link. It is situated in the Tasks section of the Container dashboard.

The virtual environment is being repaired. You cannot perform any action on the virtual environment until you click the Finish Repair button on the Start Container in Repair Mode page (p. 24).

Virtual Environment Statuses

At any point of time, any virtual environment is characterized by a status (or state). A virtual environment may have five stable statuses and a number of transitional statuses. If the virtual environment is in one of the stable states, it means that it is likely to continue in this state until its administrator performs a task that would change its status. If the virtual environment is in one of the transitional states, it means that it is currently passing from one stable state to another. During a transition stage, no operation can be performed on the virtual environment until the transition is finished.

The stable statuses are:

Virtual Environment Operations

Status Description Possible Actions

repairing

creating

mounting

starting

stopping

restarting

unmounting

destroying

starting-repair

stopping-repair

setting

migrating

moving

cloning

updating

backing-up

restoring

reinstalling

suspending

resuming

down

mounted

running

The virtual environment is stopped and its private area is unmounted.

The virtual environment private area is initialized and ready to work, but the virtual environment is not running.

The virtual environment private area is mounted and the virtual environment is running.

Starting/ reinstalling

Starting

Stopping/ restarting/

repairing

repairing/

suspended

The virtual environment is stopped and its private area is unmounted. The difference between the suspended status and the down status is that the current state of a suspended virtual environment is written to the /vz/private/CT_ID/dump/Dump file on the Hardware Node, and can be quickly restored from there.

The virtual environment is mounted in the repair mode. Exiting the repair mode.

The transition statuses are:

Status Description

The virtual environment is being created.

The virtual environment is being mounted.

The virtual environment is starting.

The virtual environment is stopping.

The virtual environment is being restarted.

The virtual environment is being unmounted.

The virtual environment is being deleted.

The virtual environment is entering the repair mode.

The virtual environment is quitting the repair mode.

The virtual environment parameters are being set.

The virtual environment is being migrated.

The virtual environment is being moved.

The virtual environment is being cloned.

The virtual environment is being updated.

The virtual environment is being backed up.

The virtual environment is being restored from the backup.

The virtual environment is being reinstalled.

The virtual environment is being suspended.

The virtual environment is being resumed from the suspended state.

Resuming. Restarting, repairing and reinstalling are not recommended because these actions are most likely to alter the saved state of the virtual environment.

Virtual Environment Operations

assigned to the directory/file, and the final set of three symbols denotes the permissions of all the

The users' group that has certain permissions on the file/folder. These permissions are presented

Managing Virtual Environment Files and Folders

For a running virtual environment, you can navigate inside the virtual environment directory structure, list the virtual environment files and directories and perform all essential file operations on

the File Manager page. ( list of drives inside the Container. Click a drive (e.g. C:) to see its contents.) The main information on the directory/drive contents is presented in the form of a table.

Column Name Description

Type The type of the object: a folder or a file.

Name The name of the directory or file.

Size The size of the file.

Modified The date and time of the last modification of the directory or file.

Container. Right after opening this screen, you are presented with a

Permissions

User

Group

Actions Hyperlinks for performing certain operations with the directory or file (see below).

Note: If the Container is being repaired (p. 24), the file manager root directory (/) corresponds to the

/repair directory of the temporary Container, in other words, it represents the root directory of the problem Container, not that of the newly-created one.

The first symbol in this column indicates if this is a directory (the letter d) or not (the minus sign). The following three symbols designate the permissions that the owner of the directory/file has on it, then go another three symbols for the permissions of the users belonging to the group

rest. The symbols in each of the set express consecutively the following permissions: read, write, and execute. The presence of a letter (correspondingly, r, w, or x) indicates that the permission is given, and the minus sign - that it is absent.

The owner of the file/directory.

by the 5th thru 7th symbols in the Permissions column.

Apart from viewing a list of files and directories with their essential properties, you are able to perform the following operations:

• Create a new folder in the current directory (p. 20);

• Create a new text file in the current directory (p. 20);

• Edit existing text files (p. 20);

• Upload a file from your local computer to the current virtual environment directory (p. 20);

• Download a file from the current virtual environment directory to your local computer (by clicking

the diskette icon in the Actions column);

• Copy any number of files or folders to another directory inside the virtual environment (p. 21);

• Move any number of files or folders to another directory inside the virtual environment (p. 21);

• Edit the properties of any folder or file (p. 21);

Virtual Environment Operations

• Remove any number of files or folders by selecting them and following the Remove link.

To perform a certain operation (e.g. copying) on a number of directories or files, tick the corresponding check boxes. The uppermost check box allows you to select all the directories and files at once.

Creating Folder

On the Create Folder screen, you can add a new folder and specify its name in the Folder Name field. Upon finishing the operation, click Create to save the changes. The new folder will be created in the current directory (designated above the field).

You can access the Create Folder screen from the File Manager section by clicking the Create Folder button.

Creating Text File

The Create File page allows you to create simple text files directly inside the virtual environment, without uploading them from your local computer.

In the Specify File section, you should enter the name of the file to be created in the current directory (this directory is indicated under the page heading) to the Name field and, optionally, type the text of the file in the Content field. Click Create when you are finished to create the new file.

Editing Text File

Parallels Virtual Automation allows you to edit any text file inside your virtual environment directly through the Parallels Virtual Automation interface. The Edit File page can be accessed by clicking on the right icon in the Actions column for the corresponding text file on the File Manager page.

This page presents the contents of the file in an editable field. Make your modifications and click Submit to write a new version of the file.

Uploading File to Virtual Environment

The current version of Parallels Virtual Automation allows you to upload external files to the virtual environment, up to ten files at a time. The Upload File page is displayed after clicking the Upload File link on the File Manager page.

Click the Browse button, navigate to the local file you wish to upload and double-click it. The path to the file will be displayed in the corresponding Specify File field. Another way of indicating the file is to enter this path manually.

Virtual Environment Operations

When you click Upload, the files that you have specified will be uploaded to the current directory inside the virtual environment. For your reference, this directory is indicated above the Specify File group.

Copying Files and Folders Inside Virtual Environment

The Copy File(s) page, where you can perform the copy operation, gets displayed after you have selected one or more files and/or folders by ticking the corresponding check boxes on the File Manager page and clicking Copy.

On the Copy File(s) page, click Select and, in the pop-up window, navigate to the folder where you want to copy the files and/or folders, check the radio button to the left of it, and press Select. The path to the target folder will be displayed in the Destination Path field. Click Copy to begin the copy process.

Moving Files and Folders Inside Virtual Environment

The Move File(s) page, where you can perform the move operation, gets displayed after you have selected one or more files and/or folders by ticking the corresponding check boxes on the File Manager page and clicked Move.

On the Move File(s) page, click Select and, in the pop-up window, navigate to the folder where you want to move the files and/or folders, check the radio button to the left of it, and press Select. The path to the target folder will be displayed in the Destination Path field. Click Move to begin the move process.

Editing File or Folder Properties

The page where you can view and edit some properties of a certain file or folder is accessible by clicking the leftmost icon in the Actions column for the corresponding file or folder on the File Manager page.

The information is given on the following file or folder general properties, whether editable or not:

Field Description Editable?

Name The name of the file or folder. Yes.

Path The path to the file or folder inside the virtual

environment.

Size The size of the file. To save the time needed to open

the page, a link is given for a folder to calculate its overall size.

Modified The date and time of the last modification of the file

or folder.

No. See Moving Files and Folders Inside virtual environment for information on how to change the path.

No.

Virtual Environment Operations

Container. You can also change such file/folder properties as permissions and ownership.

When you click Submit on the Change Properties page, your changes will be applied to the given file or folder.

Managing Containers

This section contains the relevant information on how to create, use, and manage Parallels Containers.

Changing Container Root/Administrator Password

The Change Administrative password page is displayed on clicking the Change Password link on the Parallels Power Panel menu. Only the root/Administrator password for the current virtual environment can be changed. You should enter a new root/Administrator password for the current Container into the fields provided and click Change.

Note that Parallels Power Panel does not check the entered password as to its length and nonconformity to dictionary entries, so choosing a simple password rests entirely at your own risk. It is recommended to use a chaotic set of lowercase (a-z) and uppercase (A-Z) letters, digits (0-9), and punctuation marks as root/administrator password. The following punctuation marks are allowed: ! “ $ % & , ( ) * + - . / ; : < = > ? [ \ ] ^ _ { | }. The space character, #, and @ symbols are not allowed. The password should not be less than 5 or more than 14 characters.

Reinstalling Containers

Container reinstallation means recovering the original state of a Container in case you have unintentionally modified, replaced, or deleted any file that is part of an application or OS template, and the action has brought about the Container malfunction. The Container reinstallation process restores these files as they were at the time when the Container was created or when other applications were added to the Container afterwards, if so.

Reinstallation is likely to bring about some irrevocable changes to your Container, therefore, to be on the safe side, it is recommended to back up your Container before reinstallation.

Click Next on the Reinstall Container introductory page to review the available options and to decide whether you really need to reinstall your Container and in what way.

Note: In order to be reinstalled, each Container has to be stopped first. The description of all possible Container statuses is provided in the Container Statuses section. If a Container is not stopped, the corresponding screen will inform you of the fact. In this case follow the Stop Container link in the

Possible Solutions section. Afterwards it is recommended to refresh the page by clicking the Refresh this page link in the Other possible actions section.

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