Preparing Virtual Machines for Deployment and Securing Them

To ensure a smooth deployment of the Parallels Desktop application, pre-configure your virtual machines. This allows the app to automatically download and install these machines as soon as it is deployed to users' devices.

Thankfully, the Management Portal has all the necessary tools to quickly and easily prepare something that is called Golden Images — virtual machine images, from which virtual machines will be deployed to your end users' Parallels Desktop installations.

If you decide to deploy your Parallels Desktop setup fully manually, jump to this chapter to begin by creating a virtual machine image from scratch.