Parallels Desktop for Mac Resources

Parallels^® Desktop 18 for Mac System Requirements

Supported Mac Configurations

	Minimum Run most applications such as Microsoft Office, accounting software, trading software, SAP, Matlab, and more.	Best Performance For graphics-intensive applications, high loads, and running multiple virtual machines.
Processor	Apple M2 Pro, M2 Max, M2, M1 Ultra, M1 Pro, M1 Max, and M1 chips Intel Core 2 Duo, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, Core i9, Intel Core M or Xeon processor	Apple M2 Pro, M2 Max, M1 Ultra, M1 Pro, M1 Max, and M1 chips 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 OS)	SSD drive
Graphics	Apple M2, M1 Ultra, M1 Pro, M1 Max, and M1 chips Intel, AMD Radeon, or NVIDIA graphics cards	Apple M2 Pro, M2 Max, M1 Ultra, M1 Pro, M1 Max, and M1 chips AMD Radeon Pro graphics card
Operating System	macOS Ventura 13.2 or newer macOS Monterey 12.6 or newer macOS Big Sur 11.7 or newer macOS Catalina 10.15.7 or newer macOS Mojave 10.14.6 or newer	macOS Ventura 13.2 on newer macOS Monterey 12.6 or newer macOS Big Sur 11.7 or newer
Internet connection is required for product installation, activation, updates, and select features.

Supported Guest Operating Systems (Mac with Apple M-series chip):

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 11, 10 
Kali Linux 2023.1, 2022.2, 2022.1, 2021.3
macOS Monterey 12 (in-app download)
macOS Ventura 13 (in-app download)

Supported Guest Operating Systems (Mac with Intel processors):

Only x86 versions of operating systems are supported.

Windows 11 (recommended)
Windows 10
Windows 8.1^[1]
Windows 8^[1]
Windows Server 2022
Windows Server 2019

Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 2012 R2
Windows 7 (SP0-SP1)^[1]
Windows Server 2008 R2 (SP0-SP2)^[1]
Windows Vista Home, Business, Ultimate and Enterprise (SP0-SP2)^[1]
Windows Server 2003 R2 (SP0-SP2)^[1]
Windows XP (SP0-SP3)^[1]
Windows 2000 Professional SP4^[1]
Windows 2000 Server SP4^[1]
Boot2Docker
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9,8 and 7
CentOS Linux 9 Stream, 8, 7
Fedora Linux 38, 37, 36, 35, 34, 33
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 15.2, 15.1, 15
Linux Mint 20, 19
Kali 2023.1, 2022.2, 2022.1, 2020.2, 2019, 2018
Elementary OS 6, 5
Manjaro 21, 19, 18
Mageia 8, 7
Gentoo Linux^[2]
Solaris 11, 10^[2]
openBSD 6^[2]
FreeBSD 12, 11^[2]
openVZ 7
eComStation 2, 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] — Support for the operating system is deprecated, visit KB 129252 for details.
[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: 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.
Parallels Tools for Linux require X Window System version 1.15-1.20 and Linux Kernel version 3.1-6.3.

Moving Your PC?

You can move your files from Windows PC using Apple Migration Assistant.
To move your Windows apps, you can use the Parallels Transporter feature.

Note: Parallels Transporter is not available for Mac with Apple M-series chips.

PC system requirements to move your PC to your Intel Mac (using Parallels Transporter Agent):