User`s guide

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If you have the Boot Camp partition in your Mac and select the Boot Camp Partition option
in this window, the assistant will proceed with the Boot Camp virtual machine creation. For
detailed information, see Creating a Virtual Machine for the Boot Camp Partition (p. 258) in
Parallels Desktop User's Guide.
If you don't want the operating system to be detected automatically, click Skip Detection. In
this case, you will have to choose the operating system manually and specify the type of
installation. You can choose between the Express, Typical, and Custom installation modes.
3 After you specified the user name and other details necessary for the installation, click
Continue.
4 Before the creation starts, you can specify additional options for your virtual machine like
the virtual machine name and folders sharing. When finished, click Create.
Note: To specify additional settings, click Advanced.
5 The assistant will create a virtual machine based on your settings and install the operating
system and Parallels Tools in it.
Note: Parallels Tools are installed automatically in the following systems: Windows 7,
Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server
2003, Fedora 11, Fedora 9, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Ubuntu 9, and Ubuntu 8. In other
operating systems they should be installed manually (p. 97).
Interface Basics
This chapter provides a basic description of the Parallels Desktop interface elements and their
functions.