C API: Enable/Disable "Share Windows applications with Mac"

[Rickard von Essen]

I have been trying to find the correct function in the C API (http://download.parallels.com/desktop/v9/ga/docs/en_US/Parallels C API Reference.pdf) to check/uncheck "Share Windows applications with Mac" for a VM, but I can't find the correct one. Any advice on this?

 

[Mikhail Zholobov]

Hi, Rickard!
I've found it out and unfortunately, there is no SDK functions to manage these options. I hope, it will be done in one of coming update releases of Parallels Desktop 10..

So now these options can be switched only by GUI or by manually editing the "<path_to_vm>/config.xml" file (section "SharedApplications").
The last way is not recommended because this configuration file is editing automatically and the XML model ​​can be different between Parallels Desktop releases.

 

[Rickard von Essen]

Ok, good to know.

It would be nice to be able to turn this off for Windows vagrant boxes.

 

[Mikhail Zholobov]

Modifying options "Share Windows applications with Mac" and "Share Mac applications with Windows" via "prlctl" has been implemented in Parallels Desktop 10.1.2:

prlctl set <vm_uuid> --sh-app-guest-to-host <on|off>
prlctl set <vm_uuid> --sh-app-host-to-guest <on|off>

Function names in C API: "PrlVmCfg_SetSharedAppsGuestToHost", "PrlVmCfg_SetSharedAppsHostToGuest" (File: PrlApiVm.h)

P.s. You can update PD by clicking on the top menu "Parallels Desktop -> Check for Updates...", either download and install the latest build by this link: http://www.parallels.com/directdownload/pd10/
New version of Parallels Virtualization SDK is available by this link: http://www.parallels.com/download/pvsdk/

 

[Rickard von Essen]

Great! I'll try it asap.