Dedication: The clipboard is the unifying concept behind cut, copy, and paste. The individual responsible for cut, copy, and paste, Larry Tesler, passed away this month. Larry wrote the preface to my book, Object-Oriented Programming for the Macintosh, and was the person who hired me at Apple so many, many years ago. The computing world lost an important pioneer, and this blog post is dedicated to his memory. You can read more about Larry in The New York Times and the Washington Post.
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When it was first released in 1984, one of the defining features of the Macintosh user interface was the clipboard. The clipboard was great! You could copy any kind of data to it and then later paste that data into a new location. You could put text, graphics and entire documents or folders on the clipboard. Later on, you could put video clips, equations, spreadsheets and more on it. While the Mac was not the first computer with a clipboard—the Apple Lisa also had one—the Mac made the clipboard a widely known user interface (UI) concept.
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There were, however, a couple of issues with the Mac clipboard. First, it only stored one piece of information at a time. Copy something else to the clipboard, and whatever was there before got removed. Second, it was invisible. The only way you could see what was on the clipboard was to paste the clipboard’s contents into a document. Lastly, the clipboard worked great on a single Mac, but there wasn’t any way to get the clipboard information to another Mac. Over the years, a variety of apps and extensions have tried to solve these issues, but none really caught on because none were as simple to use as the clipboard itself.
The Parallels engineers decided to solve these issues—the result is the new Clipboard History tool in Parallels® Toolbox for Mac. In this blog post, I’ll show you how to use this new tool. If you’re like me, you’ll find it so useful that you’ll set it to start up whenever you turn on your Mac.
The Clipboard History tool is one of forty tools in Parallels Toolbox for Mac (see Figure 1).
When running, it has a separate icon in the Mac menu bar—and when it’s open, its window shows you items that have been placed on the clipboard. (Figure 2)
Video 1 (3 minutes) introduces the Clipboard History tool and shows its use on a single Mac:
Video 2 (1 minute 30 seconds) shows how Apple’s Handoff works with the Clipboard History tool on two Mac devices.
Even though there is no Parallels Toolbox for the iPad, the Clipboard History tool can work with an iPad on the same network as your Mac. Video 3 (1 minute 30 seconds) shows an example of this:
I hope these examples show you the power of Parallels Toolbox. If you’re a subscriber of a recent version of Parallels Desktop™ for Mac, Parallels Toolbox is available to you at no charge. If you don’t have Parallels Desktop, you can download a free 7-day trial of Parallels Toolbox.
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When you set up your first virtual machine in Parallels Desktop for Mac, you may have noticed Parallels Tools installing automatically (in the guest operating system). So what is Parallels Tools and why is it that important for Windows/Linux/Mac VMs in Parallels Desktop? Why is it installing automatically? How do I know if it’s installed or not? In this blog, I will answer these questions and more. Read on!
What is Parallels Tools?
Parallels Tools is a set of drivers for the guest OS that is installed in your VM. It helps you use your virtual environments in the most comfortable and efficient way.
You can move the mouse seamlessly between the VM and your Mac, change the VM’s screen resolution simply by resizing its window, synchronize your VM’s time and date settings with the host OS, share your Mac disks and folders with its VMs, and copy text and drag and drop objects from Mac OS to a VM and vice versa. Visit this page of the User Guide to review all the features managed by Parallels Tools.
What if Parallels Tools is not installed?
Although you technically can run the guest OS without Parallels Tools, you will lose important functionality targeted primarily at two-OS integration.
How do I know if Parallels Tools is installed?
With Parallels Tools installed, you can move the cursor between the virtual machine and Mac; the mouse and keyboard are released automatically. One of the easy ways to detect that Parallels Tools is not installed is to start your VM and look at the status bar of its window. If the tip “Press Ctrl + Alt to release the mouse and keyboard” appears in the status bar of the VM’s window, this means that Parallels Tools is not currently installed.
Parallels Tools location on Mac
While you likely won’t need to locate the Parallels Tools image for Windows VMs manually, you might need to know the location for Linux and Mac OS images, as you need to mount them if automatic installation did not work for some reason. Here is how these images appear:
prl-tools-win.iso – Image for Parallels Tools for Windows guest operating systems
prl-tools-lin.iso – Image for Parallels Tools for Linux guest operating systems
prl-tools-mac.iso – Image for Parallels Tools for Mac OS X
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These images can be found in the following location on your Mac:
/Applications/Parallels Desktop.app/Contents/Resources/Tools
Although you may have already installed Parallels Tools at the VM setup stage, let me walk you through the steps you need to take in case it is not yet installed on your guest OS.
How to install Parallels Tools in a Windows virtual machine
- Start your VM and log in to Windows.
- When Windows boots up, click on the Actions menu (Parallels Desktop 10 and later) at the top, or the Virtual Machine menu (Parallels Desktop 9 and earlier) and select Install Parallels Tools.
- Open up the CD-ROM and click on Parallels Tools to start the automatic install.
- When the installation is complete, your VM will restart automatically.
How to install Parallels Tools in a Linux virtual machine
- Start the Linux and open the Terminal window.
- Get the administrator’s / root privileges:
sudo su or su
- Make sure the DVD drive in the Linux VM is ejected:
eject /dev/cdrom
- Go to the Parallels Desktop menu bar > Devices > CD/DVD > Connect image…
Navigate to /Applications/Parallels Desktop/Contents/Resources/Tools.
Click on prl-tools-lin.iso and click Open.
- Mount the Parallels Tools image to the Linux VM:
mkdir /media/cdrom
mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom
- Make sure the disk image has been successfully mounted:
ls /media/cdrom
It should list the files located on the disk:
install* installer/ install-gui* kmods/ tools/ version
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- Go to the Parallels Tools image and run the installation package:
cd /media/cdrom
./install
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How to install Parallels Tools in a Mac OS virtual machine
- Start the VM and log in to the guest OS.
- When the guest OS boots up, connect the Parallels Tools .iso image file by choosing Install Parallels Tools from the Actions menu at the top (Parallels Desktop 10 and later) or Virtual Machine menu (Parallels Desktop 9 and earlier).
- In the VM, open Parallels Tools and double-click Install to start the installation.
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- In the Welcome window, click Continue, and follow the installation wizard prompts.
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- When the installation is complete, click Restart to exit the assistant and restart your VM.
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