Supported Guest Operating Systems

Any of the following guest operating systems can be installed in Parallels Desktop virtual machines.

32-bit

64-bit

Express Installation

Windows

Windows 10

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Windows 8.1

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Windows 8

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Windows Server 2012 SP0, R2

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Windows 7 SP0, SP1

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Windows Server® 2008 SP0, SP1, SP2, R2

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Windows Vista® Home, Business, Ultimate, Enterprise SP0, SP1, SP2

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Windows Server® 2003 SP0, SP1, SP2, R2

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Windows XP Home SP0, SP1, SP2, SP3

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Windows XP Professional SP0, SP1, SP2, SP3

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Windows XP Professional SP2

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Windows 2000 Professional SP4

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Windows 2000 Server SP4

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Windows NT 4.0 Server SP6, Workstation SP6

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Windows ME

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Windows 98 SE

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Windows 95

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Windows 3.11

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MS-DOS 6.22

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Linux

Ubuntu® Linux 10.04 LTS, 12.04 LTS, 12.04, 13.04, 13.10, 14.04, 14.10, 15.10, 16.04 LTS

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Red Hat® Enterprise Linux 5.x, 6.x, 7.x

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CentOS Linux 5.x, 6.x, 7.0

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Fedora™ Linux 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24

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SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2, SP3

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OpenSUSE Linux 12.3, 13.1, 13.2, 42.1

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Linux Mint 13, 16, 17, 17.2, 17.3

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Mageia 3, 4.1, 5

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Debian® Linux 7.x, 8.x

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OS X

OS X Yosemite 10.10.x

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OS X Mavericks 10.9.x

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OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.x

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OS X Lion 10.7.x

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OS X Lion Server 10.7.x

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Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server 10.6.x

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Mac OS X Leopard Server 10.5.x

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Chrome

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Solaris

Solaris® 10, 11

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BSD

FreeBSD® 8.x, 9.x, 10, 10.1

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OS/2

OS/2® Warp 4.5, 4

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eComStation™ 1.2, 2.x

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Android

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*Chrome and Android OSs - we currently support these operating systems as guest operating systems only if you downloaded them as virtual appliances using New Virtual Machine Wizard.

Please note that Parallels Desktop does not include operating system installation discs or their images. You should purchase them separately.