Plug-in Installation and Usage

Plug-in installation directory and permissions

After building the plug-in:

1. copy the dynamic library to the /usr/lib/parallels/extensions directory on your Mac. The directory is created when you install Parallels Desktop.
2. Modify the plug-in file permissions. The owner of the file should be the root user. All users and groups, including root, should have read-only access (-r-xr-xr-x) to the file. If anybody has a write access, the plug-in will fail to load!

Enabling third-party plug-in support

Before you can use the plug-in, you have to turn on third-party plug-in support in Parallels Desktop preferences. Select Preferences from the Parallels Desktop menu. On the Preferences window go to Advanced and select the Allow third-party plug-ins option. When this option is selected, Parallels Desktop will scan the plug-in directory and will load the new plug-in (if you have more than one plug-in, it will load all of them).

Encrypting a virtual machine

To encrypt a virtual machine using the encryption plug-in, open the virtual machine configuration and go to Options/Security. Press the Encryption Turn On... button. Select the encryption plug-in in the Encryption Engine list. Choose and type a password and click OK.