Creating and Activating a Virtual Machine


After you've installed Parallels Desktop for Mac, you'll be ready to create a virtual machine on which you will install Windows.

Do these steps:

1.

Launch Parallels Desktop for Mac by opening the Parallels folder in the Applications folder and double-clicking the Parallels icon. You'll see the screen that enables you to choose an existing virtual machine or to create a new one (see Figure 6.3).

Figure 6.3. You can create multiple virtual machines and use this screen to choose one to work with; for now, create a new one.


2.

Click New VM. The New Virtual Machine Wizard will open.

3.

Click Next. You'll be prompted to select the configuration of the virtual machine you are creating. The options are to create a typical virtual machine, which contains the default options; to create a custom configuration, for which you'll set the configuration during the creation process; or to create a blank configuration, which you can configure later. In most cases, you'll want to use the typical option.

4.

Click Create a Typical VM and then click Next. You'll be prompted to select the OS that you'll be installing in the virtual machine and the version of the OS you'll be using.

5.

Select Windows on the Guest OS Type pop-up menu and Windows XP on the Guest OS Version pop-up menu; then click Next. You'll be prompted to name the virtual machine and choose its configuration file.

6.

Name the virtual machine; by default, the name is the name of the operating system you selected, but you can make the name whatever you want it to be (see Figure 6.4). If you'll be installing multiple versions of the same operating system, you'll want to give each a distinct name. If not, the default name will probably work fine.



Figure 6.4. I've left the name of this virtual machine to be the name of the OS I'll be installing in it.


7.

If you want to install the machine's configuration file in a location other than the default, click the ellipsis button and in the resulting sheet, name the file, choose its location, and click Save. Most of the time, the default location will be fine.

8.

Click Finish.

9.

Click Yes in the resulting sheet to allow the configuration file to be created. The virtual machine will be created and you'll see its configuration screen (see Figure 6.5).

Figure 6.5. The virtual machine has been created; you need to activate Parallels Desktop for Mac to use it.


10.

Choose Help, Activate Product.

11.

In the resulting sheet, enter the activation key you received from Parallels.

12.

Enter your name and company name, and then click Activate.

13.

In the confirmation dialog box that will appear, click OK. The virtual machine will be ready for you to install an operating system.




Sleeping with the Enemy(c) Running Windows(r) on a Mac(r)
Sleeping with the Enemy(c) Running Windows(r) on a Mac(r)
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