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Deleting a Virtual Machine

Virtual machines can be deleted manually, however we recommend doing it using the Delete VM Wizard that detects all the files that make up the virtual machine and are connected to it.

The Wizard helps remove the following virtual machine components and associated files:

The Wizard can delete a currently opened virtual machine that meets the following conditions:

To delete a virtual machine:

  1. Open the desired virtual machine.
  2. Select Delete VM in VM menu. The Welcome to the Delete Virtual Machine Wizard screen is opened. Click Next.

    Delete VM Welcome

  3. The Wizard detects all files related to the virtual machine and presents them on the Review files to be deleted screen. Each device/file is displayed in a separate string, i.e. if two hard disks are connected to the virtual machine, there will be two hard disk strings on the screen. The full path is displayed for each component.

    The configuration file, virtual hard disk, output files of serial and parallel ports, and the home directory are pre-selected for deleting while connected CD-ROM .iso images and floppy .fdd (or other) images are not, because they can be useful for other virtual machines. If you do not consider them to be useful, mark them for deletion on this screen. Note that virtual hard disks can also be attached to other virtual machines.

    Delete VM Wizard

    Review selected files, check those that should be deleted and click Finish when you are ready.

  4. The virtual machine wizard removes the selected files from your hard disk. If everything is OK the final wizard screen will appear:

    Delete VM Deletion complete

    The virtual machine is considered to be successfully deleted if all the selected components or all selected components except the home directory (if it was chosen for deleting) have been removed. If the home directory contains any files it will not be deleted.

    Click Exit to close the wizard.

After the virtual machine is deleted, a blank VM is opened in the Parallels Workstation screen. The deleted machine disappears from the list of recently used configurations in the File menu.