Parallels Workstation provides host-only network accessible only to a primary system and virtual machines running on it. Methods of configuring different types of host-only network are discussed in the Creating Host-Only Network topic.
The Network tab is intended for specifying a range of IP addresses to be assigned to virtual machines by Parallels DHCP server when configuring host-only network with dynamic IPs.
The Scope start address and Scope end address values determine the first and the last IP addresses. First address of this scope DHCP server usually assigns to itself. The second address is usually given to the primary system. Others are assigned to virtual machines. Scope start address and Scope end address should belong to the same subnet.
Subnet mask should be set in the Scope mask field.
Note. Before changing DHCP scope settings make sure that there is no virtual machine running in Host-only networking mode.
To check the networking mode of a running virtual machine:
Changing Network Preferences in Linux Primary OS
To edit settings on this tab in Linux primary OS you need root
privileges. Users with other than root
privileges can only view them.
To edit settings on the Network tab:
su -c parallels
to get root
privileges. Enter the password to the root
account when you are asked for it.
parallels
exit
command to leave the root
account.