Configure Your Virtual Machine Settings

In addition to Parallels Desktop’s global settings, covered in the previous chapter, each virtual machine has dozens of settings that you can customize to get exactly the behavior you want. I cover some of these elsewhere in this book; this chapter contains details on the remaining settings. Most people will find the default settings adequate, and a few preferences (which I’ll mention only briefly) are strictly for power users and developers with extremely specific needs.

To adjust the settings in this chapter, you must first open the Configure window for a virtual machine, and then click a category at the top of the window (followed, in some cases, by a subcategory in the sidebar on the left). You can ...

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