Parallels and iCloud

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EarlD said:
First, I apologize, just frustrated, the moderators did not delete my earlier post. There is nothing to take a screenshot of, the problem is this.
The customer had virtual machines on two Macs. On each computer the virtual machines were named Windows 10.pvm and Windows XP.pvm (the same names).
Even though they were the same names, they were very different. For example, the customer has Office installed in the Windows 10.pvm that is on the iMac, but not on the Windows 10.pvm that is on the MacBook. When iCloud Desktop and Documents was initiated, the Windows 10.pvm on the iMac got preference for some reason and when the sync was done, that virtual machine replaced the one on the MacBook. Everything in the original Windows 10.pvm on the MacBook was gone because it wasn't the replaced by the one from the iMac. A simple solution would have been to named the differtently, IE Windows 10iMac.pvm and Windows 10MacBook.pvm. I have straightened out the problem by putting the Parallels folder in the root of the Users Folder so they aren't sync with "Desktop and Documents". It would have been nice if Parallels had of sent out some kind of warning that this might happen. Either way, I won't make the same mistake again and I will recognize it next time I see it.
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We really understand your concern but Parallels Desktop doesn't have an option to give an alert when a VM is changed or modified and also if Parallels Desktop was not running at the time when the pvm file is replaced then also you will not know. As you have said if the file name is different then that would have made the difference. We suggest you to backup the pvm files manually to avoid the same.
 
Hi everybody.
I reopen this topic.
I'd like to know if it's possible to synchronize parallels on two Mac.
Can I just put the pvm file in iCloud folder and let it synchronize ? What I have to care about? Thanks in advance for you help
 
itachi said:
Hi everybody.
I reopen this topic.
I'd like to know if it's possible to synchronize parallels on two Mac.
Can I just put the pvm file in iCloud folder and let it synchronize ? What I have to care about? Thanks in advance for you help
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Hi @itachi, basically, we do not recommend running Windows virtual machine from iCloud. Common Windows virtual machine occupies around 20GB of disk space. As more you work in VM, as more space it will take. Uploading a virtual machine to iCloud might occupy an ample part of your iCloud storage.

When you run a virtual machine that is located in a iCloud-synced folder, due to I/O disk operations virtual hard disk files are constantly being modified. Therefore iCloud will constantly try to upload the files, but will drop the upload once it detects that the files are changed. This leads to outbound network traffic waste.
However, the virtual machine may be successfully uploaded to iCloud. Once uploaded, please keep in mind that deleting a virtual machine from one place (either iCloud or local folder) will automatically delete it from another. Make sure not to lose your virtual machine.
 
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