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Deleting a Device
Managing Virtual Machines and Containers
You can delete a virtual device that you do not need any more in your virtual machine using the -device-del
option of the pctl set command. The options responsible for removing particular
devices are listed in the following table:
Option Name Description
hdd Deletes the specified hard disk drive from the virtual machine.
Note: SATA disks can be removed from running and
stopped virtual machines while IDE and SCSI disks—from
stopped virtual machines only.
cdrom Deletes the specified CD/DVD-ROM drive from the virtual machine.
net Deletes the specified network adapter from the virtual machine.
fdd Deletes the floppy disk drive from the virtual machine.
serial Deletes the specified serial port from the virtual machine.
parallel Deletes the specified parallel port from the virtual machine.
sound Deletes the sound device from the virtual machine.
usb Deletes the USB controller from the virtual machine.
As a rule deleting a virtual device involves performing two operations:
1 Finding out the name of the device to be deleted.
2 Deleting the device from the virtual machine.
Finding Out the Device Name
To remove a virtual device, you need to specify its name when running the pctl set command. If
you do not know the device name, you can use the pctl list command to learn it. For example,
to obtain the list of virtual devices in the MyVM virtual machine, run this command:
# pctl list --info MyVM
...
Hardware:
cpu 2 VT-x accl=high mode=32
memory 256Mb
video 46Mb
fdd0 (+) real='/dev/fd0' state=disconnected
hdd0 (+) ide:0 image='/var/parallels/MyVM.pvm/harddisk.hdd' 27Mb
hdd1 (+) scsi:0 image='/var/parallels/MyVM.pvm/harddisk1.hdd' 32768Mb
cdrom0 (+) ide:1 real='Default CD/DVD-ROM'
parallel0 (+) real='/dev/lp0'
usb (+)
net0 (+) type=bridged iface='eth1' mac=001C4201CED0
...
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