Under Options general virtual machine settings are collected.
VM Identification:
Guest OS Type:
Booting Options
On the Booting Options tab you can select the order of devices from which the virtual machine will try to boot one-by-one. You can choose one of the three predefined sequences - [Floppy, Hard drive, CD-ROM], [Hard drive, Floppy, CD-ROM], [CD-ROM, Hard drive, Floppy]. During its startup, the virtual machine checks media in the first device of the boot sequence and tries to boot from it. If the media is not found or is not bootable, the virtual machine will proceed with the next device in the boot sequence, and so on.
Note: Please make sure that a boot disk (Floppy disk, Hard Disk, CD-ROM) is available and configured correctly. If you select a boot disk that does not exist, after starting up the guest operating system and loading BIOS, you will see the error message "Currently opened virtual machine does not include any boot devices. In order to be successfully booted the virtual machine should have at least one of the following devices attached: floppy disk drive, hard disk drive, CD/DVD-ROM drive. Do you want to power on this virtual machine anyway?
". Click No, correct the configuration of your floppy or the corresponding IDE drive and try to start again.
VM Flags
VM Flags tab contains various options that influence the performance of the virtual machine and startup configuration options.
Emulation flags:
High
level. If you notice incorrect guest operating system behaviour while running with high acceleration, for example when installing software, shut down the OS and lower acceleration level. Note that without acceleration at all (Disabled
level) the virtual machine runs very slowly. We recommend turning acceleration on after finishing the process that caused problems.If you run a guest OS with VT-x support, it is indicated in the About Parallels Workstation screen (see the More Information section).
Process priorities:
Note: Process priorities options are available in Windows primary OS only.
Misc flags: