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This section of the Management Portal is where you go to designate the virtual machines that will be deployed across your organization.

Note: To learn how to prepare a virtual machine for deployment, please refer to this section of the guide. The result should be a .pvmp file containing a virtual machine and a .txt file containing the SHA-256 checksum for it.

At the moment, it contains sections for two virtual machine files available to all Parallels Desktop users in an organization, one for all your Apple silicon Macs and one for Intel Macs.

When adding a virtual machine for deployment, the following three fields are mandatory:

1. Name. Give the virtual machine a descriptive, easy-to-read name, e.g., {company_name} Windows 11 Pro for Arm;

2. Download URL. Upload your virtual machine .pvmp file to a cloud location that allows direct file links (i.e., a https link that ends in /{vm_file_name}.pvmp) and is accessible to all the machines where you plan on deploying it. Please read the requirements provided here carefully;

3. Checksum (SHA-256). When packaging a virtual machine (right-click on it in the Control Center and choose Prepare for Transfer), the resulting .pvmp file is accompanied by a .txt file containing a SHA-256 checksum for it. Copy and paste the contents of that file in this field.

Note: If you have the .pvmp virtual machine file but not the .txt file with its checksum, you can quickly find it by following these steps:

1. Right-click on the .pvmp file while holding down the Option key and choose Copy {file_name} as Pathname;

2. Open Terminal;

3. Type in shasum -a 256 {file_desination}, pasting the copied pathname from Step 1, and hit Enter.

The output will look similar to the following:

63a90c3c38cc8c358221da339068fc1292b10bf7c00ed8449787b0e6019d706b /Users/parallels/Parallels/Windows11Pro.pvmp