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Unlike the other VMs, macOS Monterey VMs do not show the regular configuration options for modifying disks, networking, USB etc. Is there any way to get around this? Either to attach a USB disk or to expand the disk0.img file?

Hi all, After days of investigating I realized that Parallels on my MacBook Air M1 with 16GB since I am using Parallels 16.5 is starting to have large amounts of GB written to disk. In just over 48h I got to about 680GB written and it doesn't seem normal at all considering that the resources on...

Hi! I have an issue with my space on MacBook. A year ago when I decided to download VM from Parallels I made a stupid mistake and instead of going with the instructions on how to delete the VM from my Mac I just put it in trash and deleted it that way. Now I just realised that there are some...

Hello everybody. I have a simple question. I searched on the forum and on Parallels documentation but I cannot find an answer. Please, can someone tell me what is the best practice (reliability and performance) when configuring the disk for the VM? A single (big) file or more files splitted...

Hi, I have a MacBook 2017 13-inch with TouchBar running on the latest verison of MacOS Catalina (10.15 - 19A602) along with the latest Supplemental Updates. I am running the Parallels Desktop Version 15.1 (47107) - licensed. I created a new Windows VM (still have not installed the OS - just...

Hi how can I securely clean the free space for files deleted in the Windows 7 VM if I would like to use a program like Eraser? Do I run it in the Windows VM or natively on the Mac? Would I compress the virtual disk as part of this process? TIA!

Since y few weeks, parallels 13 reading periodically several 10 GB and my virtual windows 10 (version 1709) get stuck. During the reading even the osx (newest one) stopps periodically for seconds. After reading XX GB by parallels everything works normal. What service or configuration is...

I installed Parallels 12 with Windows 10 on a new MacBook Pro. I attempted to install Corel DRAW graphics suite but got the message there is not enough disk space to instrall. My hard drive is 256 Gb and Corel needs only 8 Gb. Is tbere a way to increase my virtual machine disk space?