About Parallels Desktop

Parallels Desktop® is a virtualization solution that allows you to create virtual machines on Macintosh computers with Intel® processors (1.66 GHz and faster). You can install a Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, or any other supported guest operating system in each of your virtual machines, and work with them and their applications side by side with your Mac OS X applications.

Built on Parallels' award-winning hypervisor-based virtualization technology, Parallels Desktop allows you to:

• create powerful and easy to use virtual machines
• use 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems inside your virtual machines
• use Windows and Linux applications side by side with your Mac OS X applications, without restarting your Mac
• concurrently work with the files and applications from your Mac and your virtual machine
• create Parallels virtual machines from physical computers and third-party virtual machines

To enhance your experience of running more than one operating system on your Macintosh computer, Parallels Desktop for Mac includes Parallels Transporter® for transferring data from physical computers to Parallels virtual machines and Parallels Mounter for accessing your virtual machine's files and folders even when it is not running.