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What's New in Parallels Desktop 12 for Mac?
Use your existing Windows installation in Boot Camp
System Requirements
Hardware:
A Mac computer with an Intel Core 2 Duo, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, Intel Core M or Xeon processor (Core Solo and Core Duo processors are no longer supported)
4 GB of memory (8 GB recommended)
850 MB of disk space on the boot volume (Macintosh HD) for Parallels Desktop installation
Additional disk space for virtual machines (varies on operating system installed)
Software:
macOS Sierra 10.12 or later
OS X El Capitan 10.11.5 or later
OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 or later
32-bit Guest Operating Systems
Windows 10
Windows 8.1
Windows 8
Windows Server 2012 R2, SP0
Windows 7 SP1, SP0
Windows Server 2008 R2, SP2, SP1, SP0
Windows Vista Home, Business, Ultimate, Enterprise SP2, SP1, SP0
700 MHz (or higher) x86 or x64 processor (Intel or AMD)
256 MB of RAM
50 MB of available hard disk space for installation of Parallels Transporter Agent
Ethernet or WiFi network adapter for migrating over network
Supported Windows and Linux versions: Windows 8.1, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Ubuntu Linux 8.04