• A Mac computer with an Intel Core 2 Duo, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, or Xeon processor.
• Minimum 2 GB of memory (4 GB of memory is recommended to run Windows 7 in a virtual machine or if your host OS is Lion)
• About 500 MB of disk space on the boot volume (Macintosh HD) for Parallels Desktop installation.
• About 15 GB of disk space for each virtual machine.

• Windows 7
• Windows Vista® SP 0, SP 1, SP 2
• Windows Server® 2008 R2, SP2, SP1, SP0
• Windows Server® 2003 R2, SP2, SP1, SP0
• Windows XP Professional SP3, SP2, SP1, SP0
• Windows XP Home SP3, SP2, SP1, SP0
• Windows 2000 Professional SP4
• Windows 2000 Server SP4
• Windows NT 4.0 Server SP6
• Windows NT 4.0 Workstation SP6
• Windows ME
• Windows 98 SE
• Windows 95
• Windows 3.11
• MS-DOS 6.22
• Red Hat Enterprise 6.x, 5.x, 4.x
• Fedora 15, 14, 13, 12
• Ubuntu 11.10, 11.04, 10.10, 10.04, 9.10, 9.04, 8.10
• CentOS 5.x, 4.x
• Debian 5.0
• Suse Linux Enterprise Server 11, 10 SP2
• Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 11
• OpenSUSE Linux 11.x
• Mandriva 2010, 2009
• Solaris 10
• Open Solaris 2009.06
• FreeBSD 8.x, 7.x
• OS/2® Warp 4.5, 4
• eComStation™ 1.2
• Mac OS X Lion 10.7 (on Lion only. Learn more)
• Mac OS X Lion Server 10.7
• Mac OS X Leopard Server 10.5.x
• Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server 10.6.x

• Windows 7
• Windows Vista® SP 0, SP 1, SP 2
• Windows Server® 2008 R2, SP2, SP1, SP0
• Windows Server® 2003 R2, SP2, SP1, SP0
• Windows XP Professional SP2
• Red Hat Enterprise 6.x, 5.x
• Fedora 15, 14, 13, 12
• Ubuntu 11.10, 11.04, 10.10, 10.04, 9.10, 9.04, 8.10
• CentOS 5.x
• Debian 5.0
• Suse Linux Enterprise Server 11, 10 SP2
• Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 11
• OpenSUSE Linux 11.x
• Mandriva 2010, 2009
• Solaris 10
• Open Solaris 2009.06
• FreeBSD 8.x,7.x
• Mac OS X Leopard Server 10.5.x
• Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server 10.6.x

Includes experimental support for 32- and 64-bit Windows 8 Developer and Consumer Previews.

• A Mac computer with an Intel Core 2 Duo, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, or Xeon processor.
• Minimum 1.4 GB of memory, 2 GB of memory is recommended.
• 1 GB of disk space on the boot volume for Parallels Desktop 7 Switch to Mac installation.
• About 15 GB of disk space for each virtual machine.
• Supported Mac OS versions: Mac OS X Snow Leopard v10.6.8 or later, Mac OS X Leopard v10.5.8 or later.

Note: Mac OS X Tiger v10.4.x is not supported in this version of Parallels Desktop.

To get information about your Mac OS X version, type of processor, and amount of memory, choose About This Mac from the Apple menu.