Protect and Manage Your Virtual Machines

If you’re running Windows (or another operating system) on your Mac, you may need to take additional steps to keep the data within your virtual machines safe. This chapter discusses protecting Windows against malware, how to Save and Restore Snapshots that enable you to return to earlier states of your virtual machines, and how to Back Up Your Virtual Machine. It also covers the ways in which Parallels Desktop 12 (Update 1 and later) can interact with macOS 10.12 Sierra’s Optimized Storage features (see Use Optimized Storage).

Keep Windows Safe from Malware

One of the most frequently asked tech support questions about Parallels Desktop is: “Can my Windows virtual machine get a virus?” The answer is a ...

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