{"id":386,"date":"2009-11-24T18:31:25","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T01:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/?p=386"},"modified":"2011-07-17T11:34:37","modified_gmt":"2011-07-17T18:34:37","slug":"custom-parallels-vm-icons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/24\/custom-parallels-vm-icons\/","title":{"rendered":"Custom Parallels VM icons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I run a lot of VMs in Parallels. (Currently I am running 7, although not all at once, of course.) I end up with a bunch of red generic Parallels VM alias icons on my desktop. Which means that the usual visual quick clues (color, logos, etc) aren&#8217;t there and I have to look at the text underneath. Sometimes I am in a rush and start Windows Server 2008 instead of Windows 7 Pro, or Ubuntu Linux instead of Debian Linux (one is set up as a desktop and one as a server with no X).<\/p>\n<p>I really wanted some custom icons for those VMs. My solution, (as usual) when it doesn&#8217;t exist make it. So, I opened pvs.icns (contained in the Parallels Desktop.app bundle \/Applications\/Parallels Desktop.app\/Contents\/Resources\/pvs.icns) in Icon Composer.app, selected the 512 x 512 version and copied it to the clipboard. I then pasted that into a new Photoshop document and began editing. I saved each new version as a 512 x 512 pixel png and then dropped them in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.img2icnsapp.com\">img2icns.app<\/a> which converted them to the icns files I needed to customize my VM launchers.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"icon_anim.gif by Sjan, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/evardsson\/4131759295\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2688\/4131759295_a27ededda6_o.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"icon_anim.gif\" width=\"102\" height=\"99\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>Behold the glory:<\/p>\n<p>They aren&#8217;t perfect, especially the Windows Server 2008, but they are different enough that it is easy to select the right VM in a heartbeat.<\/p>\n<p>You can download the icns files from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/files\/parallels_icons.zip\">http:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/files\/parallels_icons.zip<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I run a lot of VMs in Parallels. (Currently I am running 7, although not all at once, of course.) I end up with a bunch of red generic Parallels VM alias icons on my &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21,55],"tags":[80,192],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-os-x","category-parallels","tag-osx","tag-parallels"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pxT7i-6e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":462,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions\/462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}