Remove VMs from Parallels VM startup list

Aug 22, '08 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: timprotech

If you end up with unused virtual machines in your Parallels startup list, you can get rid of them by removing aliases from your ~/Documents/.parallels-vm-directory folder.

Choose the Finder's Go to Folder command under the Go menu, paste in the above path and go. In the folder, delete the VM aliases you don't want.

You may want to also delete the actual VM data, or maybe just find out where it lives. To do so, right-click on a VM alias and choose Show Original or Get Info from the contextual menu. You'll be taken to, or shown the path to that VM's files.

The handy thing about only having one VM in the list is it's selected automatically when you start Parallels.

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