diff --git a/docs/drvparallels.html.in b/docs/drvparallels.html.in
index 40a0fe59d98753ecf8c1c96bd6ad442cb0dc33a2..8e1430b5ec9807a11548763573f65abb3e557428 100644
--- a/docs/drvparallels.html.in
+++ b/docs/drvparallels.html.in
@@ -19,10 +19,10 @@
         The libvirt Parallels driver is a single-instance privileged driver, with a driver name of 'parallels'. Some example connection URIs for the libvirt driver are:
     </p>
 <pre>
-parallels:///default                     (local access)
-parallels+unix:///default                (local access)
-parallels://example.com/default          (remote access, TLS/x509)
-parallels+tcp://example.com/default      (remote access, SASl/Kerberos)
-parallels+ssh://root@example.com/default (remote access, SSH tunnelled)
+parallels:///system                     (local access)
+parallels+unix:///system                (local access)
+parallels://example.com/system          (remote access, TLS/x509)
+parallels+tcp://example.com/system      (remote access, SASl/Kerberos)
+parallels+ssh://root@example.com/system (remote access, SSH tunnelled)
 </pre>
 </body></html>
diff --git a/src/parallels/parallels_driver.c b/src/parallels/parallels_driver.c
index 60827b9896ab2b95ba4173eb183745a008b5e25e..b5e079112252122b8f974ca9f5f384792be84ddf 100644
--- a/src/parallels/parallels_driver.c
+++ b/src/parallels/parallels_driver.c
@@ -669,11 +669,11 @@ parallelsOpen(virConnectPtr conn,
         (conn->uri->path[0] == '/' && conn->uri->path[1] == '\0')) {
         virReportError(VIR_ERR_INVALID_ARG, "%s",
                        _("parallelsOpen: supply a path or use "
-                         "parallels:///session"));
+                         "parallels:///system"));
         return VIR_DRV_OPEN_ERROR;
     }
 
-    if (STREQ(conn->uri->path, "/session"))
+    if (STREQ(conn->uri->path, "/system"))
         ret = parallelsOpenDefault(conn);
     else
         return VIR_DRV_OPEN_DECLINED;