User`s guide

Setting Up a Virtual Machine 73
Parallels Tools Overview
Parallels Tools are a suite of special utilities that help you use your virtual machines in the most
comfortable and efficient way. With Parallels Tools, you can move the mouse seamlessly
outside the guest OS window without pressing any key, change the virtual machine's screen
resolution by simply resizing its window, and synchronize your virtual machine's time and date
settings with the time settings of the host computer.
Parallels Tools include the utilities listed below. Many of these utilities are available for the
most popular Windows and Linux operating systems.
Mouse Synchronization Tool Windows,
Linux
Mouse Synchronization Tool captures the mouse
input in the virtual machine each time the pointer
moves over to the guest OS window and
automatically releases the input when the pointer
moves out of the guest OS window.
Time Synchronization Tool Windows,
Linux
Time Synchronization Tool enables you to customize
your virtual machine and the host computer time
settings. With this tool, you can:
 Automatically synchronize the time settings of
your virtual machine with the host computer time
settings.
 Set up and maintain the time difference between
your host computer and the guest OS installed in
your virtual machine.
Clipboard Synchronization
Tool
Windows,
Linux
Clipboard Synchronization Tool enables you to easily
exchange texts between:
 different virtual machines irrespective of the
guest operating systems installed in them.
 a virtual machine and the physical computer
hosting this virtual machine.
Dynamic Resolution Tool Windows,
Linux
Dynamic Resolution Tool enables you to work with
dynamic resolution. When you resize the guest OS
window by dragging its lower right corner, the guest
OS window resolution changes automatically.
Note: If dynamic resolution does not work when
switching to the Full Screen mode in virtual
machines with Linux guest operating system
installed, go to the Video pane (p. 124) of Virtual
Machine Configuration and increase the am
ount
of video memory available to the virtual
machine's video card up to 16 MB.
Shared Folders Tool Windows,
Linux
Shared Folders Tool enables you to share the primary
OS folders to access them from the guest OS. With
this tool, you can access the host computer shared
folders from the virtual machine.
Shared Profile Tool Windows Shared Profile Tool enables you to map some of the
folders in the physical computer home folder to your
user folders in the virtual machine, which allows you
to access the physical computer home folders right
from your virtual machine.