CPU & Memory Settings

In the CPU & Memory pane, you can view and configure the CPU- and memory-related settings.

To open these settings, choose Actions > Configure > Hardware, then click CPU & Memory.

VM_Configuration_CPU and Memory

Option	Description
Processors	Use this menu to change the number of virtual CPUs allocated to your virtual machine.
Memory	Use this menu or slider to change the amount of memory allocated to your virtual machine. To optimize the performance of both the virtual machine and macOS, set the memory allocated to the virtual machine to be somewhere within the recommended range.
Adaptive Hypervisor	Select this option to set Parallels Desktop to automatically optimize performance for the virtual machine or macOS depending on which application you're working with at the moment. When you're using a virtual machine app, more resources are given to the virtual machine, and when you're using a macOS application, more resources are given to macOS.