Alfred Workflow - Parallels Manager

This is an Alfred Workflow (Alfred 3 & Alfred 4) which is used to manage all of your Parallels VMs (virtual machines). The options available are:

• Start
• Stop
• Restart
• Suspend
• Pause
• Resume

Note: You must have jq installed in /usr/local/bin for this to workflow to run. jq is a command-line JSON processor. For more information visit the jq website.

How it works

Installation

JQ install

As mention above, this worflow requires jq to be installed in /usr/local/bin. The easiest way to do this is using homebrew, which is a package manager for MacOS.

1. Ensure homebrew is installed - to do this, follow the instructions on the homebrew website
2. Now that you have homebrew installed, launch terminal and run the following command brew install jq
3. Wait for jq to install
4. To validate it was installed in the correct location run ls /usr/local/bin | grep jq. If the words jq are returned then you know it has been installed. If not, jq is not installed in /usr/local/bin
5. It is very important you have jq installed before proceeding.

Alfred workflow

Next is the super easy part, installing the Parallels Manager workflow in Alfred.

1. First you actually need Alfred installed. If you don't have this head over to the Alfred website.
2. Clone or downlod this repo. Alternatively right click this this link and select Save as.
3. Double click the Parallels Manager.alfredworkflow file
4. This will automatically install the workflow in Alfred

Usage

To use Alfred Parallels Manager do the following:

1. Launch Alfred via your selected keyboard shortcut (mine is ⌘ + ␣)
2. Type the xpvm keyword and select Parallels Manager from the list
3. Parallels Manager will now retrieve a list of your VMs (this might take a while, especially if Parallels is not yet running)
4. Select a VM to manage and press Enter
5. Select an action to complete on the VM and press Enter
6. Enjoy

Source Code

If you would like to make your own version all of the source code is available in the src directory.

Alfred Version Support

This workflow has been tested successfully on Alfred 3 and Alfred 4.