.HDS

Parallels Desktop Hard Disk File

📌 An .HDS compound structure is associated with the whole or partial hard disk generated and built by Parallels Desktop for Mac virtualization suite. Accurately, the .HDS layout holds and covers the composition of a hard drive related to a virtual machine (VM) and is normally mounted by Parallels when revealing, extracting, and opening VMs. .HDS resources may be shaped as one of several .HDS object instances that comprise the resulting outcome hard drive structure (.HDD pattern). You can encounter a decent multitude of .HDS samples within an HDD hard drive object, which itself is allocated within the .MACVM or .PVM VM-data element. In order to review the integral arrangement of an .HDS element, you should initially mount its enclosing HDD entry with Parallels Mounter, a program embedded into the Parallel Desktop bundle. You can fulfill this idea by following the predefined reprosteps:

• open up the referential .PVM data item via a right click on it and picking “Show Package Contents” option
• seek for the precise allocation of the main .HDD entry for the VM (peculiar by the identical filename prefix as the initial .PVM branch node)
• make a right click on the proper .HDD item and select Open With -> Parallels Mounter.app option.

If an .HDS consistent Parallels Mounter applet is not visible and represented within the list of program solutions to open an .HDD container, you can easily notice its availability within the /Library/Parallels/ folder on your hard drive storage.

Microsoft PlayReady Data File

📌 One more optional variation of the .HDS file extension area is distinctively focused on Microsoft PlayReady, a DRM toolkit which serves for streaming videos online. As the practice claims, the .HDS file record is typically entitled as mspr.hds and allocated within the C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\PlayReady\ folder in Windows shell or /Library/Application Support/Microsoft/PlayReady catalog in Mac OS X environment. Generally, most of the .HDS nodes are encountered during a software upgrade of Microsoft Silverlight platform, which can lead to incorrect processing and issues while streaming Netflix. Many of the community members have successfully resolved this discrepancy by shutting down all available apps, removing mspr.hds or changing its name to mspr.hds.bak value, and after that restarting Netflix service. After restart is done, Netflix would generate and initiate a new instance of the mspr.hds module, which afterwards would fix the encountered .HDS obstacle.

How to open an .HDS file?

📌 The .HDS file constitution and logic can be transparently and flawlessly operated, opened, and handled by Parallels Desktop for Mac suite. In other preconditions, it would be a good decision to experiment with Microsoft PlayReady toolkit, which mainly serves for streaming online video from various online services, such as Netflix and Twitch.