Just for some context, here is my use case for Parallels. I am doing OS development on some microprocessors (www.moteiv.com) that communicate through Serial over USB (your standard FTDI chipset). I have Parallels for Mac running with XPPro as the guest OS (sadly, the toolchain and associated apps work more seamlessly in Win32.) The USB devices are tricky in that I need to plug one in, 'activate' it in the Parallels instance, then disable/enable the USB Serial device in the XP Device Manager in order for it to be fully recognized. The wrench in this is that I try to do this all remotely; VNC into OSX to enable the USB device, then RDP into XP to use the devices. So (finally) here is the feature request. A shell application that will perform the 'simple' functionality you have available in the GUI such as start, pause, shutdown, device connection, and the like. If I could SSH in and control the guest OS I couldn't express how happy I'd be. This would also be a fix to an odd bug I am running into with Parallels + VirtuDesktops. Occasionally if I have Parallels on full screen on a virtual desktop and the system's screensaver activates, it will give me the eternal happy beach ball. Killing the parallels process clears it up, but I'd prefer an orderly shutdown of the guest OS if possible. Thanks! -- Matt
Autostart Constant, Thanks for the reply! I could set up each configuration to 'autostart' and 'autoconnect USB' then type 'open XP-EE.pvs' in the shell, but that only addresses the startup and not runtime or shutdown options. Am I understanding your question correctly?
. I was not thinking too clearly. Obviously you're not running X when you SSH. In which case it would be advantageous to have the CLI you request. As a word of encouragement, the Linux image tool is run from the CLI, so it would seem that what you wish for, should be possible. .
