User`s guide

Installing Parallels Desktop 16
System Requirements
Before installing Parallels Desktop, please make sure that your computer complies with the
hardware and software requirements listed here.
Hardware Requirements
 Minimum 1.66 GHz x86 (32-bit) or x64 (64-bit) CPU with the Intel VT-x or AMD-V
hardware virtualization technology support.
 2 GB RAM minimum. 4 GB RAM or more is recommended.
 The recommended amount of memory assigned to a virtual machine is 1-2 GB (you can
assign up to 8 GB of RAM).
 200 MB of hard disk space for the Parallels Desktop installation.
 About 30 GB of hard disk space for each virtual machine.
To store a virtual machine's temporary files, you need to have twice as much free disk space
as the overall amount of this virtual machine's memory (memory + video memory) +150
MB.
 CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive (optional).
 Ethernet network adapter.
Software Requirements
Parallels Desktop officially supports host computers with the following operating systems
installed.
Note: You can run virtual machines with 64-bit operating systems only on host computers with
64-bit CPUs.
32-bit operating systems
 Windows 7 (supported experimentally)
 Windows Vista SP1, SP2
 Windows XP Pro SP3
 Windows XP Home SP3
 Debian 5.0
 Fedora 11
 Mandriva 2009 Spring
 OpenSUSE 11.1
 RHEL 5.3
 SLES 11
 Ubuntu 9.04
64-bit operating systems
 Windows 7 (supported experimentally)
 Windows Vista SP1, SP2