Parallels Tools Overview
Parallels Tools are a suite of special utilities that help you use your virtual machines in the most comfortable and efficient way. With Parallels Tools, you can move the mouse seamlessly between the virtual machine and your Mac, change the virtual machine's screen resolution by simply resizing its window, synchronize your virtual machine's time and date settings with the time settings of the host computer, share your Mac's disks and folders with its virtual machines, copy text and drag and drop objects from macOS to a virtual machine and vice versa.
Parallels Tools are available for the most popular Windows, Linux, and macOS operating systems, and include the utilities listed below. All utilities supported by your guest OS are installed in your virtual machine as a single package when you install Parallels Tools.
Parallels Tools are located on disc images that are installed together with Parallels Desktop. There is a separate Parallels Tools disc image for each type of the supported guest operating systems.
prl-tools-win.iso- disc image with Parallels Tools for Windows guest operating systems.prl-tools-lin.iso- disc image with Parallels Tools for Linux guest operating systems.prl-tools-mac.iso- disc image with Parallels Tools for macOS guest operating systems.
These disc images can be found in the following location on your Mac: /Applications/Parallels Desktop.app/Contents/Resources/Tools.
Note: The aforementioned disc images are for Intel Macs. If you have an Apple Silicon Mac, the same folder contains disc images which are designated as -arm.