The upper part of the About Parallels Workstation screen provides information on the number of the build you are using, the full name of the vendor and link to its site, and copyright and trademark information as well.
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License Status:
Note: The same license information is displayed in the Activate Product window. See Activating Parallels Workstation in Windows or Activating Parallels Workstation in Linux.
Virtual Machine Features:
This group contains indicators that are active only when the guest OS is running. Otherwise they are off.
If you are running virtual machine with hardware acceleration, this line indicates either Intel VT-x
or AMD SVM
. It shows Intel VT-x
if you work on an Intel VT-enabled processor and hardware virtualization support is activated on the VM Flags tab of the General Options. This line shows AMD SVM
if you work on an AMD SVM-enabled processor and hardware virtualization support is activated on the VM Flags tab of the General Options. See Intel Virtualization Technology (VT-x) and AMD SVM Support for a description of both types of hardware virtualization.
If you are running without hardware acceleration, the virtualization mode line indicates the acceleration level. All guest OSes, besides Windows NT/2000/XP/2003, run in Software mode 0
. Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 starts with Software mode 0
, then switch to Software mode 1
and Software mode 2
in case the Acceleration Level setting (on the VM Flags tab of the General Options) is set to High
.