Parallels allows you to run Windows and Mac applications side by side. Choose your view to make Windows invisible while still using its applications, or keep the familiar Windows background and controls on your Mac.
Run Windows on your Mac
Over simplest form, fast and powerful running Windows on a Mac without rebooting!
Run thousands of Windows programs on your Mac
Migrate from PC to Mac has never been so easy
Reusing an existing Boot Camp partition
Parallels Toolbox includes: essential utilities for Mac
The preferred option of more than 5 million users and the best choice according to experts
All editions include these essential functions
Run thousands of Windows applications such as Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer, Access, Quicken, QuickBooks, Visual Studio and even games with a high consumption of graphics and CAD software without affecting the performance or speed reset. Parallels Desktop 12 is fully optimized for Windows 10 and prepared for MacOS Sierra.
Run Windows and Mac applications in parallel
Enjoy both Windows and need. Different display modes allow you to control the level of integration between Mac and Windows.
The transfer from PC to Mac has never been easier
Easily transfer the entire contents of your current PC (operating system, documents, applications, games and even your browser bookmarks) to your Mac.
Enhanced Windows Installation
Installing Windows on your Mac is easier than ever. Easy and intuitive wizard guides you through the entire process, including purchasing license Windows 10 (if needed).
Already you are using Boot Camp?
Easily convert your Windows partition in Boot existing to a new virtual machine Parallels Desktop Camp.
Not only for Windows
Run a wide range of operating systems: MacOS, Windows 10, 8.1 and 7, Linux, Google Chrome and many others.
Incredible performance
Windows applications resource – intensive run perfectly without slowing down your Mac and Microsoft Office is faster than ever.
Setting a click
Now you can optimize the performance of the virtual machine with one click and thus easily get the performance you need.
Extra features of Pro Edition
Designed given to developers, professional users and other advanced users. The Pro version offers more processing power, up to 64GB of vRAM and 16 vCPUs per VM. It includes integrated debugging tools, without peripheral mode for virtual machines, nested virtualization reversal mode and compatibility with most popular development tools such as Visual Studio, Vagrant, Jenkins and many more. uninterrupted support by phone and email.
Extra features Business Edition
Designed for use in work environments, Parallels Desktop includes all the features of the Pro version and uninterrupted support via email and telephone. It allows to easily centralized management, has mass deployment capabilities, has a site license management and provides advanced security controls.
Double-click “Install” and follow the prompts. (It is important to uncheck the “Optional: Automatically send usage statistics to Parallels xxxxxxxx” box during the installation process)
Run PD after the installation is complete (sign in!). If you don’t have an account, sign up for a pd account, then log in and click on trial after you log in, you will be sent a 14-day trial).
Then install Windows virtual machine or linux/Ubuntu virtual machine (if you don’t have a virtual machine, you must install it first, if you have, you can skip this step). 4.
Drag “PD Lancher” to “Applications” folder.
Exit the running PD.
Open the Launcher -> Other -> Activity Monitor, search for parallels, and exit all the ones you found (you can ignore this step if you don’t have it).
Run the installed PD launcher (if you have installed multiple virtual machines with different systems, there will be two options, one is Windows 10 and the other is Ubuntu Linux, if you have installed win10 or win11, select Windows 10 and click Start). 8.
Enjoy!
To start PD in the future please use the “PD Lancher” run! To make it easier to use you can open the launcher and drag it to your Dock bar (program dock), the launcher works regardless of the trial expiration, even if it expires.
For those whose trial has expired:
Open System Preferences - Date and Time and uncheck “Set date and time automatically”.
Change the current time to a very early time (any time period before your PD VM trial period expires is fine).
At this point, open the PD VM directly, it will prompt how many more days of trial period, use this trial period to open a virtual machine that has already been created, such as Windows, and use it normally.
In the system preferences - date and time, check the “automatically set the date and time”, through the “PD Lancher” run it! For your convenience you can open the launcher and drag it to your Dock (program dock), the launcher will work regardless of trial expiration, even if it expires.
If you get the error below, please change the name of the virtual machine you want to run to “Windows 10” in the Control Center
Parallels Desktop Business Edition
Solutions for various problems with Parallels Desktop
Ways to Bypass an Expired Trial
Method 1
The only way to reset the trial period is by changing the date in system settings that was before the first activation of the trial period in parallels Desktop 16.5 on your Mac.
Trial reset tests using a script that removes Parallels Desktop 16.5 with all residual files, alas, did not help reset the trial period. It looks like when you authorize in the program, it sends data about your UUID to the Parallels servers and the license is tied to the UUID, and not to the account.
Method 2
This method only works on Mac Pro and Parallels Desktop Business Edition.
If your trial period has ended, you can still use Parallels Desktop. If you do not have virtual machines, create the one you need, the absence of a trial period will not interfere with this.
To start any virtual machine after your trial period in Parallels Desktop has ended, you must completely close all Parallels Desktop programs, and then run these commands line by line in the terminal:
open -a Parallels\ Desktop
prlctl start "Windows 10"
Instead of Windows 10, the quotes can be any name of your virtual machine created in Parallels Desktop.
