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Software Requirements

RAS Publishing Agent and RAS Secure Client Gateway

RAS Publishing Agent and RAS Secure Client Gateway are supported on the following operating systems:

  • Windows Server 2008
  • Windows Server 2008 R2
  • Windows Server 2012
  • Windows Server 2012 R2
  • Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server 2016 Server Core.

Note: Parallels RAS should NOT be installed on a domain controller or any other server where a DHCP server is running.

RAS RD Session Host Agent

RAS RD Session Host Agent is supported on the following operating systems:

  • Windows Server 2003 SP1 and newer
  • Windows Server 2008
  • Windows Server 2008 R2
  • Windows Server 2012
  • Windows Server 2012 R2. Note that Server Core installation option is NOT supported.
  • Windows Server 2016 and newer must be installed as Server with Desktop Experience.

RAS VDI Agent

RAS VDI Agent is supported on the following operating systems:

  • Windows Server 2008
  • Windows Server 2008 R2
  • Windows Server 2012
  • Windows Server 2012 R2
  • Windows Server 2016

VMware, Nutanix, and Xenserver can use Windows-based RAS VDI agent either integrated into RAS Publishing Agent or installed separately on Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016.

RAS Guest Agent

  • Windows 7 and newer
  • Windows Server 2008 R2 and newer

Remote PC Agent

  • Windows 7 and newer.
  • Windows Server 2008 R2 and newer.

Parallels RAS PowerShell

Windows Server 2008 with Service Pack 2 and newer. Windows Management Framework 3.0 must also be installed.

Parallels RAS Console

  • Windows Server 2008 and newer
  • Windows 7 and newer

RAS HTML5 Gateway

  • Windows Server 2008 R2 or higher. Note that RAS HTML5 Gateway will NOT work with Windows Server 2008 (plain, not R2).

Parallels Client

Parallels Client is approved for the following operating systems (both 32 bit and 64 bit systems are supported, where applicable):

  • Windows 7, 8.x, 10
  • Windows Server 2003 SP1 and newer
  • Windows Embedded
  • macOS 10.11 and newer
  • iOS 9.0 and newer
  • Android 4.4 and newer
  • Chrome OS

Supported Linux distributions (x64 versions only):

  • Ubuntu 16.04
  • Ubuntu 18.04
  • Linux Mint 19
  • Debian 9.5.0
  • Fedora 28
  • CentOS 7.5