Parallels Desktop for Mac is one of the most popular tools for running Windows on Apple’s Mac hardware and operating system. This year’s release brings the software to version 13 and promises full compatibility with Microsoft’s Windows 10 Fall Creator update as well as Apple’s High Sierra operating system when these OS launch. Application launched in OS X/macOS virtual machine does not work properly (graphical artifacts/issues) or cannot be started. 3D acceleration support in OS X/macOS virtual machines Nov, 9 2018 Parallels Desktop 14 for Mac Home and Pro Edition updates summary. During the month of September, Parallels is offering a special upgrade price of $39.99 so you can run Apple’s most advanced operating system on the fastest, most powerful version of Parallels Desktop for Mac, version 4.0.
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Please find the table with Parallels Desktop and macOS (as a main system) compatibility information below. Compatibility table for End-of-Life Parallels Desktop versions is below.
| Mac OS version | OS X Yosemite | OS X El Capitan | macOS Sierra | macOS High Sierra | macOS Mojave |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parallels Desktop version | 10.10 or later | 10.11 or later | 10.12 or later | 10.13 or later | 10.14 or later |
Parallels Desktop 15 | √ | √ | √ | ||
Parallels Desktop 14 | √ | √ | √ | √ | |
Parallels Desktop 13 | √ | √ | √ | √ | √* |
* Please note that Parallels Desktop 13 only partially support working on macOS Mojave environment due to technical reasons and the following issues can occur:
- Issues with creating a Boot Camp based virtual machine
- Visual and graphics artifacts
- Intermittent application crash
To avoid these issues we recommend to upgrade to Parallels Desktop 15.
End-of-Life versions of Parallels Desktop
| Mac OS version | Mac OS X Tiger | Mac OS X Leopard | Mac OS X Snow Leopard | Mac OS X Lion | OS X Mountain Lion | OS X Maveriks | OS X Yosemite | OS X El Capitan | macOS Sierra | macOS High Sierra | macOS Mojave | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parallels Desktop version | 10.4.6 or later | 10.4.11 or later | 10.5.2 or later | 10.5.8 or later | 10.6 or later | 10.6.3 or later | 10.6.8 or later | 10.7 or later | 10.7.5 or later | 10.8 or later | 10.9 or later | 10.10 or later | 10.11 or later | 10.12 or later | 10.13 or later | 10.14 or later |
Parallels Desktop 12 | √ | √ | √ | √* | √* | |||||||||||
Parallels Desktop 11 | √ | √ | √ | √ | ||||||||||||
Parallels Desktop 10 | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | |||||||||||
Parallels Desktop 9 | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | |||||||||||
Parallels Desktop 8 | √ | √ | √ | √ | ||||||||||||
Parallels Desktop 7 | √ | √ | √ | |||||||||||||
Parallels Desktop 6 | √ | √ | ||||||||||||||
Parallels Desktop 5 | √ | √ | √ | |||||||||||||
Parallels Desktop 4 | √ | √ | ||||||||||||||
Parallels Desktop 3 | √ | |||||||||||||||
Parallels Desktop 2.5 | √ | |||||||||||||||
*Versions marked with asterisks are partially compatible with the corresponding macOS versions and may not work correctly.
Can OS X 10.5.8 be installed on a 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7 Mac Miniin order to upgrade to OS X 10.6.3 server?(The Goal: to quit 10.8 Server in order to use Rosetta software again)
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Your Mac mini is probably a Apple Mac mini 'Core i7' 2.3 (Late 2012) Macmini6,2. It was originally delivered with Mac OS X 10.8.1.
Neither 10.5 nor 10.6 contain the necessary drivers to support your hardware (especially USB3.0).
Consider installing Mac OS X Server 10.6.8 in an virtual machine using Parallels, VMware Fusion (both non-free) or VirtualBox (free).
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No. 10.5 doesn't include the necessary drivers for your machine, neither does 10.6
One option would be to install 10.6 Server in a Virtual Machine. There are a few tutorials on the net, it can be quiet tricky as I recall but it works.
Kevin Grabher