Parallels Desktop for Mac Resources

Supported Guest Operating Systems (Mac with Apple silicon):

Only Arm versions of operating systems are supported.

• Windows 11 Pro and Enterprise editions (recommended)
• Ubuntu Linux 23.04, 22.04, 21.10, 21.04, 20.10, 20.04
• Fedora Workstation 38, 37, 36, 35, 34, 33-1.2
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
• Debian GNU/Linux 12, 11, 10
• Kali Linux 2023.1, 2022.2, 2022.1, 2021.3
• CentOS Stream 9
• macOS Monterey 12 (in-app download)
• macOS Ventura 13 (in-app download)
• macOS Sonoma 14 (in-app download)

Supported guest operating systems (Mac with Intel processors):

Only x86 versions of operating systems are supported.

• Windows 11 (recommended)
• Windows 10^[1]
• Windows Server 2022
• Windows Server 2019
• Windows Server 2016

• Windows Server 2012 R2
• Boot2Docker
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9,8 and 7
• CentOS Linux 9 Stream, 8, 7
• Fedora Linux 38 and 37
• Ubuntu 23.04, 22.04 LTS, 21.10, 21.04, 20.04 LTS, 18.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS
• Debian GNU/Linux 11, 10
• Suse Linux Enterprise 15
• OpenSUSE Linux 15.5 and 15.4
• Linux Mint 20
• Kali 2023.1, 2022.2, 2022.1, 2020.2, 2019, 2018
• Elementary OS 7
• Manjaro 22 and 21
• Mageia 8
• Gentoo Linux^[2]
• Solaris 11 and 10^[2]
• openBSD 6^[2]
• FreeBSD 12 and 11^[2]
• openVZ 7
• eComStation 2 and 1.2^[2]
• ReactOS 0.4^[2]
• Android OS (in-app download only)
• macOS Ventura 13.0^[3]
• macOS Monterey 12.0^[3]
• macOS Big Sur 11.0^[3]
• macOS Catalina 10.15^[3]
• macOS Mojave 10.14.x^[3]
• macOS High Sierra 10.13.x^[3]
• macOS Sierra 10.12.x^[3]
• OS X El Capitan 10.11.x^[3]
• OS X Yosemite 10.10.x^[3]
• OS X Mavericks 10.9.x^[3]
• OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.x^[3]
• OS X Lion 10.7.x^[3]
• OS X Lion Server 10.7.x^[3]
• Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server 10.6.x^[3]
• Mac OS X Leopard Server 10.5.x^[3]
• and many more...
• [1] — Only the 64-bit version is supported.
• [2] — Parallels Tools are not available for this operating system.
• [3] — Requires a Mac computer that supports the operating system as a host OS.
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Note: To run legacy Windows OS versions (2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8/8.1), download and use Parallels Tools version 18.3.0. Learn more at https://kb.parallels.com/en/129252.
Parallels Desktop for Mac emulates PC hardware, so operating systems that are not present in this list can work as well. You can download the Parallels Desktop trial and install an operating system of your choice. If it doesn’t work and you believe it should be supported, let us know at Parallels Forum.
To learn more about limitations of running Windows 11 in Parallels Desktop, please visit KB 129497.

For information about supported Linux kernel versions, please visit KB 129963.