Parallels Desktop for Mac App Store Edition system requirements

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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
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.

Additional information on the M1 experience may be found in this articleWindows 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. 

Supported Systems on Mac with Intel processor

The following operating systems (x86-based only) are supported for running in a virtual machine.

* - 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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