disk image

Product: Parallels Desktop for Mac Version: Latest (macOS 26 host support) Description of the feature: I would like to request support for Apple Sparse Image Format (ASIF) as a storage option for Parallels virtual machine disks. Why it is useful: Smaller file size: ASIF images only consume disk...

Currently Parallels Desktop 19 for Mac Pro Edition only supports fixed disk images when adding a secondary disk to a macOS client vm. This means every time the secondary disk is used, the ENTIRE disk image is backed up by the host -- which will quickly fill up any backup storage system. Adding...