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 24.04, 23.04, 22.04, 21.10, 21.04, 20.10, 20.04
• Fedora Workstation 40, 39
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
• Debian GNU/Linux 12, 11
• Kali Linux 2024.2, 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)
• macOS Sequoia 15 (when released)

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 40, 39
• Ubuntu 24.04, 23.04, 22.04 LTS, 21.10, 21.04, 20.04 LTS, 18.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS
• Debian GNU/Linux 12, 11
• Suse Linux Enterprise 15
• OpenSUSE Linux 15.5 and 15.4
• Linux Mint 20
• Kali 2024.2, 2023.1, 2022.2, 2022.1
• Elementary OS 7
• Manjaro 22 and 21
• Mageia 8
• Gentoo Linux^[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 Sequoia 15.0 (when released)^[3]
• macOS Sonoma 14.0^[3]
• 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]
• 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 included in this list can work as well. You can download the Parallels Desktop trial and install an operating system of your choice. If that OS doesn’t work and you believe it should be supported, let us know in the Parallels Forum.
To learn more about the limitations of running Windows 11 in Parallels Desktop, please visit KB 129497.

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