Parallels Desktop for Mac Business Edition Academic Multi-Year Subscriptions (Download)

Parallels Desktop for Mac Business Edition is a single seamless, secure, and powerful platform that unites Mac and Windows environments, streamlines IT management, and boosts the productivity of remote teams

• For Schools & Administrative Offices: A cost-effective way to empower your educational Mac users with Windows apps and cross-platform software development capabilities.
• For IT Teams: Provision virtual machines using Parallels Desktop and manage licenses at scale based on your requirements.
• For Administrators: Empower your team with a trusted application, simplify onboarding, and ensure everybody is using the same stack.

Features include:

• Jumpstart Your Org's AI Journey: Enable your development team to rapidly enhance their AI development skills. The pre-packaged virtual machine makes AI models readily accessible with tools and code examples, empowering individuals and teams to quickly and easily develop AI applications and apply them to real-world applications.
• Admin Capabilities: Use a deployment package to configure, deploy, and fine-tune Parallels Desktop settings. Add Windows applications to the Dock and enable Single Application Mode using Jamf, InTune, Kandji, Mosyle, Munki, and other Mac management tools.

  Don't have or don't want to use a Mac management solution? No problem! Enroll new users in just a few clicks through automatically generated emails, each accompanied by a Parallels Desktop download link. All installations activate automatically.

Core Components:

• Maximum virtual RAM and CPUs: 128 GB vRAM, 32 vCPUs
• Supports latest versions of macOS, Windows, and Linux
• Authorized by Microsoft and SOC 2-certified
• 3D acceleration—DirectX and OpenGL
• Run thousands of Windows apps on your Mac

Advanced Capabilities:

• Run Windows apps with intensive graphics and processing needs
• Command line interface
• Built-in developer tools

System Tools:

• Disk cleanup and memory cleaner
• System and performance monitoring
• Multimedia download and conversion
• Productivity and privacy boosters
• Screen capture and recording

Teams and Small Business (Not available on the Pro Version)

• Centralized administration and license management
• Automation of CI/CD workflows
• Advanced provisioning tools
• Volume Licensing (Contact us for a Custom Quote)
• Jamf and Intune integration for automated deployment and updates

System Requirements:

Minimum to run most applications such as Microsoft Office, accounting software, trading software, and more:

• Processor: Any Apple silicon chip (M-series) Core i5, Core i7, Core i9, Intel Core M or Xeon processor
• Memory: 4GB of RAM
• Storage: 600 MB for Parallels Desktop application installation; Additional disk space for the guest operating system (at least 16 GB is required for Windows OS)
• Graphics: Any Apple silicon chip (M-series); Intel, AMD Radeon, or NVIDIA graphics cards
• Operating Systems:
  • macOS Tahoe 26.0 or newer (when released)
  • macOS Sequoia 15.5 or newer
  • macOS Sonoma 14.7 or newer
  • macOS Ventura 13.7 or newer
  • macOS Monterey 12.7 or newer[1]
  • macOS Big Sur 11.7 or newer[1]
  • macOS Catalina 10.15.7 or newer[1]
  • macOS Mojave 10.14.6 or newer[1]

[1] – the marked OS version is not supported by Parallels Desktop 26, and the product installer will set up an earlier product version; support of guest operating systems can be limited. It is recommended to update macOS if possible.

Best Performance for graphics-intensive applications, software development, high loads, and running multiple virtual machines

• Processor: Any Apple silicon chip (M-series); Intel Core i5, Core i7, Core i9 or Xeon processor
• Memory: 16GB of RAM
• Storage: Solid State Drive (SSD)
• Graphics: Any Apple silicon chip (M-series); AMD Radeon Pro graphics card
• Operating Systems:
  • macOS Tahoe 26.0 or newer (when released) macOS Sequoia 15.5 or newer macOS Sonoma 14.7 or newer macOS Ventura 13.7 or newer

Supported Guest Operating Systems (Mac with Apple M-series chip)
Only Arm versions of operating systems are supported.

• Windows 11 Pro and Enterprise editions (recommended)
• Windows Server 2025 (when released)
• Ubuntu Linux 25.04, 24.04, 23.04, 22.04, 21.10, 21.04, 20.10, 20.04
• Fedora Workstation 42, 41, 40, 39
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, 9
• Debian GNU/Linux 12, 11
• Kali Linux 2025.2, 2024.2, 2023.1, 2022.2, 2022.1, 2021.3
• CentOS Stream 10, 9
• macOS Monterey 12 (in-app download)
• macOS Ventura 13 (in-app download)
• macOS Sonoma 14 (in-app download)
• macOS Sequoia 15 (in-app download)

Parallels Desktop 26 features a preview version of x86 emulation that allows you to run some of the x86 operating systems.

Supported Guest Operating Systems (Mac with an Intel processor)
Only x86 versions of operating systems are supported.

• Windows 11 (recommended)
• Windows 10[1]
• Windows Server 2025 (when released)
• Windows Server 2022
• Windows Server 2019
• Windows Server 2016
• Windows Server 2012 R2
• Boot2Docker
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10, 9, 8, 7
• CentOS Linux Stream 10, 9
• Fedora Linux 42, 41, 40, 39
• Ubuntu 25.04, 24.04, 23.04, 22.04 LTS, 21.10, 21.04, 20.04 LTS
• Debian GNU/Linux 12, 11
• Suse Linux Enterprise 15
• Kali 2025.2, 2024.3, 2023.4, 2022.2, 2022.1
• openBSD 6[2]
• Android OS (in-app download only)
• macOS Sequoia 15.0[3]
• macOS Sonoma 14.0[3]
• macOS Ventura 13.0[3]
• macOS Monterey 12.0[3]
• macOS Big Sur 11.0[3]
• macOS Catalina 10.15[3]
• macOS Mojave 10.14.x[3]
• macOS High Sierra 10.13.x[3]
• macOS Sierra 10.12.x[3]
• OS X El Capitan 10.11.x[3]
• OS X Yosemite 10.10.x[3]
• OS X Mavericks 10.9.x[3]
• and many more...

[1] — Only the 64-bit version is supported.
[2] — Parallels Tools are not available for this operating system.
[3] — Requires a Mac computer that supports the operating system as a host OS.