The Add Shared Folder dialog will appear.

Enable the User-defined folders option to be able to add shared folders to the list. In the Virtual Machine Configuration dialog, select the Shared Folders pane.clicking the Configure button on the toolbar of the virtual machine main window.choosing Configure from the Virtual Machine menu, or.Open the Virtual Machine Configuration dialog by:.Start Parallels Desktop and open a virtual machine.For the instruction on how to do that, see Shared Folders Settings. Add a shared folder(s) to your virtual machine configuration.See Installing Parallels Tools for detailed descriptions on how to do so in a particular guest OS. Make sure that Parallels Tools are installed in your guest OS.Setting up a shared folder requires two steps: See the list of supported guest operating systems. Linux operating systems supported by Parallels Desktop as guest OSs.Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, and Windows Vista.Using shared folders is possible in the following guest operating systems: It means, that it occupies space on the hard disk of the computer or virtual machine it originally belongs to. In the operating system, where a shared folder resides, it appears as a usual folder, while in the virtual machine it is shared to, it appears as an object of the network neighborhood.Ī shared folder or volume resides on the computer (host computer or a virtual machine) to which it initially belongs. You can also share the virtual machine disk volumes with Mac OS X - they will be mounted on the Mac OS X Desktop. Such folders can be used for exchanging files between the primary OS (Mac OS X) and the virtual machine or between several virtual machines. A shared folder is a folder on your Mac that can be accessed from your virtual machine.

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