Parallels Desktop for Mac App Store Edition system requirements:
| Minimum To run most applications such as Microsoft Office, accounting, trading, SAP, Matlab, and more |
Best Performance For graphics-intensive applications, high loads and running multiple virtual machines |
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| Processor |
Apple M1/M1 Pro/M1 Max chip, Intel Core 2 Duo, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, Core i9, Intel Core M or Xeon processor |
Apple M1/M1 Pro/M1 Max chip, Intel Core i5, Core i7, Core i9 or Xeon processor |
| Memory | 4 GB of RAM | 16 GB of RAM or more |
| Storage |
600 MB for Parallels Desktop application installation Additional disk space for the guest operating system (at least 16 GB is required for Windows 10) |
SSD drive |
| Graphics | Apple M1/M1 Pro/M1 Max chip, Intel, AMD Radeon, or NVIDIA | Apple M1/M1 Pro/M1 Max chip, AMD Radeon Pro graphics card |
| Operating System |
macOS Ventura 13 macOS Monterey 12 macOS Big Sur 11.1 or newer |
macOS Ventura 13 macOS Monterey 12 macOS Big Sur 11.1 or newer |
Internet connection is required for product activation, updates, and select features.
Supported Systems on Mac with Apple M1 chip
The following operating systems (ARM-based only) are supported for running in a virtual machine.
- Windows 11
Additional information on the M1 experience may be found in this article. Windows ARM can run most of the regular Windows x86 applications. If the application of your interest doesn't work, let us know at Parallels Forum.
- Ubuntu Linux 22.04, 21.04, 20.10, 20.04
- Fedora Workstation 34, 33-1.2
- Debian GNU/Linux 10.7
- Kali Linux 2021.2, 2021.1
Supported Systems on Mac with Intel processor
The following operating systems (x86-based only) are supported for running in a virtual machine.
- Windows 11
- Windows 10
- Windows 8.1
- Windows 8
- Windows Server 2022
- Windows Server 2019
- Windows Server 2016
- Windows Server 2012 R2
- Windows 7 (SP0-SP1)
- Windows Server 2008 R2 (SP0-SP2)
- Windows Vista Home, Business, Ultimate and Enterprise (SP0-SP2)
- Windows Server 2003 R2 (SP0-SP2)
- Windows XP (SP0-SP3)
- Windows 2000 Professional SP4
- Windows 2000 Server SP4
- Boot2Docker
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8, 7 and 6
- CentOS Linux 8, 7, 6
- Fedora Linux 34, 33, 32, 31
- Ubuntu 22.04, 21.04, 20.10, 20.04, 19.04, 18.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS
- Debian GNU/Linux 10, 9
- Suse Linux Enterprise 15
- OpenSUSE Linux 15.2, 15.1, 15
- Linux Mint 20, 19, 18
- Kali 2020.2, 2019, 2018
- Elementary OS 5
- Manjaro 21, 18
- Mageia 7
- Gentoo Linux **
- Solaris 11, 10 **
- openBSD 6 **
- FreeBSD 12, 11 **
- openVZ 7
- eComStation 2, 1.2 **
- ReactOS 0.4 **
- Android OS*
- macOS Monterey 12.0
- macOS Big Sur 11.0
- macOS Catalina 10.15
- macOS Mojave 10.14.x
- macOS High Sierra 10.13.x
- macOS Sierra 10.12.x
- OS X El Capitan 10.11.x
- OS X Yosemite 10.10.x
- OS X Mavericks 10.9.x
- OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.x
- OS X Lion 10.7.x
- OS X Lion Server 10.7.x
- Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server 10.6.x
- Mac OS X Leopard Server 10.5.x
- and many more...
* - Only the version downloaded with help of the Installation Assistant with Parallels Desktop.
** - Parallels Tools are not available for this operating system.
Parallels Tools for Linux require X Window System version 1.15-1.20 and Linux Kernel version 2.6.29-5.12.
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