
Managing Virtual Machines 231
Using Spotlight with Virtual Hard
Disks
Spotlight is a Mac OS utility that enables you to search for the items stored on your Mac. To be
able to search for the items stored on your virtual machines hard disks, you can enable Spotlight
support in Parallels Desktop.
Warning. Using Spotlight may reduce the performance of your virtual machine and your
Mac .
Enabling Spotlight support in Parallels Desktop
1 Open Configuration Editor by choosing the Edit menu -> Virtual Machine.
Note. Configuration Editor is available only when the virtual machine is not running.
2 On the Shared Folders tab, select the Enable Spotlight processing option.
Note. You must have administrator rights to use this option.
Using Spotlight to search your virtual hard disks
1 In a Finder window, open the virtual hard disk you want to search by clicking its icon in the
sidebar.
Note. If the disk is not mounted in the Finder, refer to the instructions provided in the
Mounting Virtual Disks in Finder (page 230) topic.
2 Click inside the Search field in the Finder window or click the Spotlight icon on the
menubar.
3 Type the name of the item and press Return (Enter) to start the search.
4 The search results will be displayed in the Finder window.
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