"home" file in root of hard drive - what is it?

[0dev]

I just saw, on one of my Macs, a file called "home", which an icon which looks like OS X's hard drive icon but with people holding hands around it in the root of Macintosh HD. What's that do? Never noticed it before.

 

[munkery]

What is the location in the type of notation shown in the example below?

"Computer name"/Macintosh HD/System/Library/Components

 

[0dev]

<Computer name>/Macintosh HD

 

[munkery]

What's in the folder?

I bet it has something to do with Windows emulation or virtualization.

 

[Jolly Jimmy]

It's perfectly normal for it to be there. It should be hidden though.

 

[munkery]

Yup, once I showed hidden folders, it was there.

 

[0dev]

If it's to do with Windows virtualisation, that makes sense since I've got Parallels set up.

Thanks