Hardware Requirements

The physical computer running Parallels Workstation should meet the following hardware requirements:

• 400 MHz or faster processor which supports the Pentium II instruction set. 1.5 GHz or faster is recommended.
• 32-bit platform.
• Memory to run the primary OS (for example, 128 MB for Windows XP) plus memory required for each guest operating system and its applications. Please see your primary and guest operating systems documentation for their memory requirements. 1 GB or more is recommended.
• Hard disk with 20 MB of free disk space is required for product installation. Disk space required for Virtual Machines should be estimated according to volume of data you suppose to store on virtual hard disks.
• Any SVGA video card with an 8-bit display adapter supported by your primary OS (Windows, Linux). 16-bit color depth or higher is recommended.
• Optional: a 3.5" floppy drive, CD-ROM drive, DVD-ROM drive.
• If you intend to access Internet in Virtual Machine, you should have an Ethernet adapter installed on your computer that is supported by your primary OS: Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 or Linux. The adapter should provide the promiscuous mode. At present, almost every 10/100/1000 Ethernet card can support the promiscuous mode.
• Optional: serial port, parallel port.