Parallels Workstation - 6.0 Getting Started
Getting Started With
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Parallels
Workstation 6.0
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Contents
Welcome to Parallels Workstation............................................................................4
About Virtual Machines and Guest Operating Systems...................................................... 5
What You Can Do ............................................................................................................. 5
Install Parallels Workstation......................................................................................6
What You Need ................................................................................................................ 7
Install Parallels Workstation ............................................................................................... 9
Install Parallels Workstation in Windows .................................................................................. 9
Install Parallels Workstation in Linux....................................................................................... 10
Activate and Register Parallels Workstation ..................................................................... 12
Install or Import a Guest Operating System ...........................................................13
Supported Guest Operating Systems.............................................................................. 14
Install a Guest OS from a Disc or Image .......................................................................... 15
Import from an Earlier Parallels Workstation or Other Virtualization Application ................16
Import Your Data from a PC............................................................................................ 17
Install and Update Parallels Tools .................................................................................... 18
Use a Guest Operating System...............................................................................19
Start Up and Shut Down a Guest OS .............................................................................. 19
Set the View Mode.......................................................................................................... 20
Install Programs in a Guest Operating System................................................................. 21
Save a Snapshot of a Virtual Machine .............................................................................22
Learning More, Support, and Feedback.................................................................23
C HAPTER 1
Welcome to Parallels Workstation
Congratulations on purchasing Parallels Workstation. Now you can install and work with multiple
operating systems together at the same time on your computer.
Use this guide to quickly set up and start using Parallels Workstation.
In This Chapter
About Virtual Machines and Guest Operating Systems ............................................. 5
What You Can Do .................................................................................................... 5
Welcome to Parallels Workstation
About Virtual Machines and Guest Operating Systems
To add an additional operating system to your computer, Parallels Workstation creates a "virtual
machine," or a software implementation of a computer, inside your computer. You can install any
supported operating system, or "guest OS," in the virtual machine.
Just like with a regular computer, you can turn virtual machines on and off, configure them, and
install and use programs.
You can use Parallels Workstation to install several virtual machines, with various operating systems
installed in them.
In this guide, your actual computer and its operating system are sometimes referred to as the "host
computer" and "host OS."
What You Can Do
With Parallels Workstation, you can:
• Install and use 32-bit and 64-bit guest operating systems on your host computer
• Easily share files, devices, and other resources between operating systems
• Run host OS and guest OS programs seamlessly on one desktop
• Copy and paste text and drag and drop objects between host OS and guest OS programs
• Transfer the operating system and all your data from a remote Windows or Linux computer and
use them on your host computer
• If you have Parallels Workstation Extreme and your computer supports Intel VT-d, assign
physical PCI Express (PCIe) devices directly to virtual machines
• And much more
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C HAPTER 2
Install Parallels Workstation
Follow the instructions in this chapter to install and activate Parallels Workstation.
In This Chapter
What You Need........................................................................................................ 7
Install Parallels Workstation ...................................................................................... 9
Activate and Register Parallels Workstation .............................................................. 12
Install Parallels Workstation
What You Need
To install and set up Parallels Workstation 6, you need:
A computer with:
• Minimum 1.66 GHz x86 (32-bit) or x64 (64-bit) CPU.
To run 64-bit guest operating systems, you need a processor that supports the Intel VT-x
hardware virtualization technology.
To assign PCI Express (PCIe) devices directly to your virtual machines (Parallels Workstation
Extreme only), you need a processor that supports the Intel VT-d technology.
The support for Intel VT-x and VT-d may be disabled by default in some computers that actually
support them. To enable these features, in most cases enter BIOS, go to System Settings >
Virtualization Support, and select the Enable Intel Virtualization and Enable Intel VT for
Direct I/O check boxes.
For detailed information on enabling the Intel VT-x and VT-d features in BIOS, refer to the OEM
supplier's documentation.
Important: VT-d features are supported by Parallels Workstation Extreme only.
• 2 GB RAM minimum. 4 GB RAM or more is recommended.
The recommended amount of memory assigned to a virtual machine is 1-2 GB. You can assign
up to 8 GB of RAM if Parallels Workstation is installed in the 32-bit host OS and up to 64 GB if
in the 64-bit.
• 350 MB of hard disk space for the Parallels Workstation installation.
• About 30 GB of hard disk space for each virtual machine.
To store a virtual machine's temporary files, you need to have twice as much free disk space as
the overall amount of this virtual machine's memory: (memory + video memory) +150 MB.
• DVD-ROM drive.
• Ethernet network adapter.
If you want to use a directly connected PCIe video card in your virtual machine, you need:
• Two PCIe video cards. One video card for your host computer and the other – for the virtual
machine.
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Parallels Workstation officially supports the NVIDIA Quadro
Q4000, Q5000, (Q2000? and Q6000?) video cards for virtual machines. For these video cards,
use the latest drivers (starting from 182.65 for Windows and 180.51 for Linux ?) available on the
manufacturer's website.
FX 1800, 3800, 4800, 5800,
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