User guide

Introduction 11
Virtual Machine Equipment
As we mentioned earlier, virtual machines work just like a stand-alone computer. Each VM
contains the following virtual hardware:
 CPU: Intel Pentium or AMD;
 Generic motherboard compatible with Intel i815 chipset;
 RAM up to 1500 MB;
 VGA and SVGA with VESA 3.0 support;
 1.44 MB floppy drive (mapped to a physical drive or to an image file);
 Up to four IDE devices, each of them may be either a virtual hard drive (from 20 MB up to
128 GB each, mapped to image file), or CD/DVD-ROM drive (mapped to physical drive or
to image file);
 Ethernet virtual network card compatible with RTL8029. Parallels Workstation supports
bridging to wireless network adapters;
 Up to four serial (COM) ports (mapped to real port, to pipe or to output file);
 Up to three bi-directional parallel (LPT) ports (mapped to real port, to printer or to output
file);
 2-port USB 1.1 controller;
 AC'97-compatible sound card. Sound recording is supported;
 104-key Windows enhanced keyboard;
 A PS/2 wheel mouse.