User`s guide

Introduction 8
About Parallels Desktop
Parallels Desktop
®
is a virtualization solution that allows you to create virtual machines on
Macintosh computers with Intel
®
processors (1.66 GHz and faster). You can install a Windows,
Linux, Mac OS X, or any other supported guest operating system in each of your virtual
machines, and work with them and their applications side by side with your Mac OS X
applications.
Built on Parallels’ award-winning hypervisor-based virtualization technology, Parallels Desktop
allows you to:
 create powerful and easy to use virtual machines
 use 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems inside your virtual machines
 use Windows and Linux applications side by side with your Mac OS X applications, without
restarting your Mac
 concurrently work with the files and applications from your Mac and your virtual machine
 create Parallels virtual machines from physical computers and third-party virtual machines
To enhance your experience of running more than one operating system on your Macintosh
computer, Parallels Desktop for Mac includes Parallels Transporter
®
for transferring data from
physical computers to Parallels virtual machines and Parallels Mounter for accessing your
virtual machine's files and folders even when it is not running.