Supported Guest Operating Systems

Parallels Desktop officially supports the following 32-bit guest operating systems:

Mac OS X

• Mac OS X Leopard Server 10.5.x

Windows

• Windows 7 (experimental)
• Windows Server 2008
• Windows Vista® Home, Business, Ultimate, Enterprise SP0, SP1
• Windows Server® 2003 SP2, R2
• Windows XP Professional SP2, SP3, Home Edition SP2, SP3
• Windows 2000 Server SP4, Advanced Server SP4
• Windows NT 4.0 Server SP6, Workstation SP6
• Windows ME
• Windows 98 SE
• Windows 95
• Windows 3.11
• MS-DOS 6.22

Linux

• Red Hat® Enterprise Linux 5.x, 4.x
• CentOS Linux 5.x, 4.x
• Red Hat Linux 9
• Fedora™ Linux 10, 9, 8, 7
• Fedora Core 5
• SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2, 9 SP3
• OpenSUSE Linux 11.x, 10.x
• Mandriva™ Linux 2009, 2008, 2007
• Debian® Linux 5.0, 4.0
• Ubuntu® Linux 8.x, 7.x
• Xandros Business 4.0

Solaris

• Solaris® 10, 9

BSD

• FreeBSD® 7.x, 6.x

OS/2

• OS/2® Warp 4.5
• eComStation™ 1.2

This version of Parallels Desktop also supports the following 64-bit guest operating systems:

Mac

• Mac OS X Leopard Server 10.5.x

Windows

• Windows 7 (experimental)
• Windows Server 2008
• Windows Vista Home, Business, Ultimate, Enterprise SP0, SP1
• Windows Server 2003 SP2, R2
• Windows XP Professional SP2

Linux

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x
• CentOS Linux 5.0
• Fedora Linux 10, 9, 8
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2, 9 SP3
• OpenSUSE Linux 11.x, 10.x
• Ubuntu Linux 8.x, 7.x
• Mandriva Linux 2009, 2008, 2007

Solaris

• Solaris 10

BSD

• FreeBSD 7.0

Note: Parallels Desktop does not provide users with OS ISO images or OS installation discs. You should purchase an OS installation disc or an OS ISO image if you do not have any.

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