What Is Parallels Image Tool

The Parallels Image Tool allows you to create images of the three types of real media: hard disks, floppy disks, and CD/DVDs, and to modify existing hard disk images: to convert hard disk image to another format (see the Format of The Virtual Disk in the Hard Disk Images topic), to increase disk image size, and to defragment an expanding disk image.

Note: Blank hard disk and floppy disk images can be created in Configuration Editor on the corresponding options tabs - Hard Disk Options and Floppy Options - using the Recreate button located on these tabs.

With hard disk images, the Image Tool can perform the following operations:

• create an image of a real hard disk,

  with existing hard disk images:

• increase disk size of an hard disk image,
• create an expanding copy of a plain hard disk image,
• create plain copy of a expanding hard disk image,
• defragment an expanding hard disk image.

With CD/DVD-ROM images, the Image Tool can perform the following operations:

• create an .iso image of a real CD/DVD-ROM.

With floppy disk images, the Image Tool can perform the following operations:

• create an image of a real diskette.

Note: In Linux primary OS some Image Tool options may be disabled depending on your system privileges.