User`s guide

Using Parallels Add-Ons 193

Starting Parallels Transporter

To start Parallels Transporter in Windows:

 If Parallels Transporter was installed together with Parallels Desktop, click the Windows

Start menu and choose All Programs > Parallels > Parallels Desktop > Parallels Transporter or

choose Run Parallels Transporter from the Parallels Desktop File menu.

 If Parallels Transporter was installed as a separate package, click the Windows Start menu

and choose All Programs > Parallels > Parallels Transporter.

To start Parallels Transporter in Linux, click the Applications menu and choose System Tools >

Parallels Transporter.

To start Parallels Transporter Agent:

 In Windows, click the Windows Start menu and choose All Programs > Parallels > Parallels

Transporter Agent.

 In Linux, click the Applications menu and choose System Tools > Parallels Transporter

Agent .

Using Parallels Compressor

Parallels Compressor is an easy-to-use Parallels utility which will help you keep your virtual

machines efficient for many purposes.

Parallels Compressor is a part of the Parallels Tools set and is installed, updated, and removed

with Parallels Tools. To start Parallels Compressor, choose Run Parallels Compressor from the

Virtual Machine menu.

Parallels Compressor allows users to:

 effectively clean up disk space in a virtual machine

 significantly reduce the size of virtual hard disks files

 efficiently use the resources of a physical hard disk

Note: Compressing of a virtual machine cannot be performed if the virtual machine has the

Undo disks option enabled, or if it has snapshots. Compressing is also unavailable for the virtual

machines with plain disks.

If, nevertheless, you want to compress the virtual machine that has snapshots, delete all the

snapshots with the help of Snapshot Manager before you start compressing the virtual machine's

disks. For more information, refer to Managing Snapshots (p. 182).

To com

press the virtual machine with Undo Disks (p. 109), first disable the Undo disks feature

in Virtual Machine Configuration.