Overview

When you start the Virtual Machine, the guest operating system console is opened and acts as a usual Virtual Machine monitor. After your keyboard and mouse are captured in the Virtual Machine screen, you can work with this Virtual Machine in the same way as you work with a standalone computer, including turning off or resetting the guest OS.

Such Parallels Workstation controls as the toolbar and the menu allows to manage Virtual Machine behavior, when you run the machine in windowed mode. Instead you can run Virtual Machine in fullscreen mode, where Parallels Workstation controls and the primary operating system are not visible.

While working in windowed mode, Parallels Workstation controls let you to do the following:

• start, turn off and reset Virtual Machine,
• switch between Virtual Machine and your host computer,
• pause and suspend Virtual Machine,
• connect and disconnect devices, change data type accessed by them,
• temporary disable separate Parallels Tools (if you have them installed),
• expand Virtual Machine console to fullscreen mode.