System Requirements

Hardware Requirements

• Any Macintosh computer with an Intel processor (1.66 GHz or greater). To run 64-bit operating systems in virtual machines, an Intel Core 2 or later processor is required.
• Minimum 1 GB of memory, 2 GB of memory is recommended.

  Note: Your Mac must have enough memory to run Mac OS X and your Mac applications, plus the memory required for the virtual machine guest operating system and the applications installed in it.

• At least 500 MB of disk space on the boot volume ( Macintosh HD ) for Parallels Desktop installation.
• About 15 GB of disk space for each virtual machine.

Software Requirements

• Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.3 or later
• Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.8 Leopard or later

Note: Mac OS X Tiger v10.4.x is not supported in this version of Parallels Desktop.

To get information about your Mac OS X version, type of processor, and amount of memory, choose About This Mac from the Apple menu.