![]() ![]() Then, select ‘Remove' from the File menu. To delete a Parallels virtual machine, first launch Parallels Desktop and select the virtual machine you wish to delete from the Parallels Virtual Machines list. Once you have completed all the steps, you will receive a confirmation email that your Parallels Desktop account is deleted permanently from our system and you will no longer have access to it or any related services provided by Parallels Desktop. ![]() You will receive an email with instructions on how to complete the deletion process – follow them carefully.ĥ. Type your account password to confirm that you want to delete the account.Ĥ. Go to the Personal Profile page of your account and click on Delete Account.ģ. Log in to your Parallels Desktop account at Ģ. To delete your Parallels Desktop account, pease follow the steps below:ġ. It uses resources like RAM and CPU just like any oher application, so you may notice a slight decrease in performance while running it, but this is usually very minor and will not harm your computer. Parallels is designed to be as lightweight and unobtrusive as possible and should not cause any damage to your computer. In fact, it is a great way to use Windows applications on your Mac without having to dual-boot or even reboot. If everything went fine on the step 4 and you did extensive tests, you can now delete the “source/old” partition to finaly free space on your hard drive.Potential Impact of Parallels on Mac Computers In case of Windows XP, it could do a “chkfsk” (Check disk) at the first startup. You can now boot your VM to try your resized partition. Shut down your VM, go to the configuration panel, disconnect your “old/source” hard drive and configure correctly the location to be the one from the “source” hard drive (for example: 0:0 in my case).ĭo not forget to disable the GParted iso. Now that your partition has been duplicated, it’s time to try the new partition. This operation can take a very long time.ĭo not forget to setup the “boot” flag on the target partition. ![]() You may need to resize your source drive before, and for that, enough free space on the source to resize it to the size of the target hard drive is required. You may now duplicate the source hd to the target hd. Now that GParted is booted, you should see your two hard drives. Select the downloaded GParted ISO image there and do not forget to modify the boot priorities. Under the CD/DVD-ROM properties, you can boot from an image. Step 2: Boot with GPartedĭownload GParted ( ) and configure it to boot at the VM Startup. ![]() (In my case, I went from 32 Go to 14 Go, so I’ve created a second hard drive that is 14 Go). Then create a new hard drive image with the requested size. So what you need to do is to open the Parallels Desktop app, and then to go to the properties of the VM you want to resize. A place where the size of the needed resized partition is free (Yes, I know, if you want to free space, it is not a good start…).This could be done because you are runing out of space, or because you want to put your OS on an USB key or a SD card, or whatever.Īfter having try multiple time Parallels solutions, I’ve used another very simple method to achieve that. Especially if you want to decrease the size of a virtual machine. Parallels Desktop is great, but some tools are missing. ![]()
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