Supported Guest Operating Systems
Parallels Workstation supports a number of guest operating systems and can be easily upgraded to support any other x86 compatible guest operating system.
The current version of Parallels Workstation officially supports the following guest operating systems:
Microsoft Windows Guest Operating Systems:
- 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 XP SP1 Professional
- Windows XP SP1 Home
- Windows XP SP0 Professional
- Windows XP SP0 Home
- Windows 2000 Professional Edition SP4
- Windows 2000 Server SP4
- Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP4
- Windows NT Workstation 4.0 SP6
- Windows NT Server 4.0 SP6
- Windows ME
- Windows 98
- Windows 95
- Windows 3.11
- Windows 3.1
Linux Guest Operating Systems:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS4
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS4
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS3
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES4
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES3
- Red Hat Linux 9
- Red Hat Linux 8
- Red Hat Linux 7.3
- Debian Linux 3.1
- Fedora Core Linux 4
- Fedora Core Linux 3
- SUSE Linux 10
- SUSE Linux 9.3
- SUSE Linux 9.2
- SUSE Linux 9.1
- SUSE Linux 9.0
- Mandriva Linux 10.1
- Mandriva Linux 10
- Mandriva Linux 9.2
FreeBSD Guest Operating Systems:
- FreeBSD 5.4
- FreeBSD 5.3
- FreeBSD 4.5
- FreeBSD 4.1
OS/2 and eComStation Guest Operating Systems:
- OS/2 warp 4.5
- OS/2 warp 4
- OS/2 warp 3
- eComStation 1.2
- eComStation 1.1
Sun Solaris Guest Operating Systems:
MS-DOS Guest Operating Systems:
