Software Requirements
If one of the following primary operating systems is running on your computer, Parallels Workstation can be successfully installed on it.
Microsoft Windows Primary Operating Systems:
- Windows Vista
- Windows 2003 Standard Edition SP0
- Windows 2003 Standard Edition SP1
- Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition SP0
- Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition SP1
- Windows 2003 Web Edition SP0
- Windows 2003 Web Edition SP1
- Windows XP SP2 Professional
- Windows XP SP2 Home
- Windows 2000 Professional Edition SP4
- Windows 2000 Server SP4
You should have Internet Explorer version 5.0 or higher installed on your computer.
Linux Primary Operating Systems:
- Fedora Core Linux 4 stock 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS4 stock 2.6.9-5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS4 stock 2.6.9-5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES4 stock 2.6.9-5
- Red Hat Linux 9 stock 2.4.20-8
- Debian Linux 3.1 stock 2.6.8-2-386
- SUSE Linux 10.0 stock 2.6.13-15
- SUSE Linux 9.3 2.6.11.4-20a
- SUSE Linux 9.2 stock 2.6.8-24.11
- SUSE Linux 9.1 stock 2.6.4-52
- SUSE Linux 9.0 stock 2.4.21-69
- Mandriva Linux 10 stock 2.6.3-7
The following software packages should be installed:
- Sources of currently installed kernel (if you didn't install the kernel manually, then you should install kernel-sources package from your distribution);
- glibc [glibc]
- gcc [gcc], ld [binutils] (included in any development package)
- X Window System including
- xf86vidmode extension (for fullscreen only)
- XKB extension (for keyboard national layouts and leds support)
- Qt 3.0.5 library multithreaded [qt3]
PAE Support
Current version of the Parallels Workstation supports up to 4 GB PAE (Physical Address Extension). If your processor supports more than 4 GB PAE:
- In Windows primary OS on the first starting a virtual machine you will be prompted to create a new configuration with 4 GB PAE in boot.ini.
- In Linux primary OS kernel PAE setting should be changed manually.
See Troubleshooting section in Starting a Virtual Machine topic.