System Requirements |
| Software Requirements |
Primary Operating: Mac OS® X 10.4.11 (including Leopard and experimental support for Snow Leopard) or higher
System : running on an Intel® Mac. |
| Hardware Requirements |
Support for any 32- or 64-bit Intel®-based Mac:
Mac Computer
- iMac
- Mac mini
- MacBook
- MacBook Pro
- MacBook Air
- Mac Pro Tower
Processors
Support for any 32- or 64-bit Intel® Core Duo processor featured in new Intel® Macs::
- Intel® Core Solo
- Intel® Core Duo
- Intel® Core 2 Duo
- Intel® Dual-Core Xeon
Includes full support for Intel Virtualization Technology (VT)
Memory Requirements
1 GB of RAM (2 GB recommended to run Windows Vista). Support for any memory configuration (up to 16 GB), without modifying your host system.
Disk Space
Software Installation — 450 MB of available hard drive space for Parallels Desktop 4.0 for Mac installation (plus space to allocate to your virtual machine.)
Virtual Machine Installation — Hard drive space allocation for virtual machines is dependent upon the guest operating system. 15 GB of available hard drive space is recommended per virtual machine for Windows and Linux.
CD-ROM
CD-ROM drive for installation (if applicable)
Networking
Internet connection is required to receive online Parallels Desktop 4.0 for Mac product updates
Display
16-bit or 32-bit display adapter recommended |
| Software Requirements for Guest OSs in Virtual Machines |
| Supports 32- and 64-bit virtual machine operating systems such as Windows, Linux and Solaris — not included. |
| Guest OS
(32-bit) |
Mac:
- Mac OS X Server 10.5.x Leopard
- Mac OS X Server 10.6.x Snow Leopard (experimental support)
Windows:
- 3.1
- 3.11
- 95
- 98
- NT Server
- Server 2000
- Server 2003
- Server 2008
- XP Professional and Home Edition
- Vista Business, Ultimate, Enterprise,
Home and Home Premium
7 (experimental)
Linux:
- CentOS
- SUSE
- OpenSUSE
- Red Hat
- Red Hat Enterprise
- Debian
- Fedora Core
- Mandriva
- Ubuntu
- Xandros
Other:
- FreeBSD 7.0 & 6.2
- OS/2 Warp 4.5
- eComStation 1.2
- Solaris 10 & 9
- MS-DOS 6.22
- OpenBSD 3.8
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| Guest OS
(64-bit) |
Mac:
- Mac OS X Server 10.5.x Leopard
- Mac OS X Server 10.6.x Snow Leopard (experimental support)
Windows:
- Server 2003
- Server 2008
- XP Professional
- Vistas Business, Enterprise and Ultimate
Linux:
- Red Hat Enterprise
- CentOS
- Fedora
- SUSE Enterprise Server
- OpenSUSE
- Ubuntu
- Mandriva
Other:- Solaris 10 & 9
- OpenBSD 3.8
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| Hardware Requirements for Virtual Machines |
Processor: Virtualized Processor of host Mac
Motherboard: Generic motherboard compatible with Intel i815 chipset
Memory: Up to 8GB RAM available for each virtual machine
Keyboard: 104-key Windows enhanced keyboard
Mouse: PS/2 wheel mouse
Display: VGA and SVGA with VESA 3.0 support
3D Graphics support (DirectX9.0 with Shaders Model 2, DirectX Pixel Shaders and OpenGL 2.0)
Intel® Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE4) support
IDE Drives: Up to 4 IDE Devices; CD/DVD-ROM Drives, Virtual Hard drives or any combination of the two. Virtual Hard Drive from up to 2TB each
Floppy Drives: 1.44 Floppy drive mapped to FDD image file
CD Drives:Burn CDs and DVDs directly in virtual machines, play audio CDs, and read data from copy-protected CDs and DVDs.
Sound Card: AC’97-compatible sound card. Sound recording is supported
Serial Ports : Up to four Serial (COM) Port mapped to a socket or to an output file
Parallels Ports: Up to three bi-directional parallel (LPT) ports mapped to output file
Ethernet© Cards: Up to 16 Virtual NICs
Ethernet virtual network card compatible with RTL8029 bridged to Apple Ethernet or Apple Airport adapter, connected to host-only or shared networking
USB Ports: USB 2.0 support; 8 USB 2.0 ports and 2 USB 1.1 ports |
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If your job requires Windows, but you love your Mac and OS X, Parallels will truly give you the best of both worlds.  |
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