My Current OSX is 10.9.5, i need to upgrade Sierra so if i upgrade to sierra will i able to use my current desktop 9 for MAC version 9.0.24251? After upgrading can i use the same parallels for mac windows and how many activation? Regards M.Safrin MohamedS2, May 7, 2017 #3. My IMac is running 10.9.5. I run Parallels so I can run Quickbooks and ACT. My current version of QBK's is - Answered by a verified Mac Support Specialist. I recently upgraded my Intel Mac from 10.6.8 to 10.9.5. Is Parallels 10 my best choice for replacement of Parallels 7.0? Will 10 be able to use the Windows XP I previously used to access my Window files?
Parallels Toolbox for Mac is a smart, simple set of tools and utilities to simplify everyday tasks. Compress files with one click to use less storage space. Unarchive any archived files, RAR, zip, and more. Record a video of a screen, active window, or area. Screenshot a screen, active window, or area. A set of handy, easy-to-use time management tools to keep you productive and on task. Optimize your home movie or television shows for iPad or iPhone. Avoid distractions so you can focus on the task at hand. When activated, all notifications and the Dock app animations are disabled. Prevent your computer from going to sleep and your display from dimming. Ensure a task won't be interrupted by disabling settings that would allow the computer to go to sleep. Download your favorite videos from the Internet: YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo. Use this tool to hide all the files, folders, and other icons on your desktop when you're doing a presentation, sharing or recording your screen, or taking screenshots. Immediately lock your screen to prevent unauthorized access to your computer. No need to wait until the password-protected screen saver kicks in. Mute your computer's microphone to prevent unauthorized or unwanted listening by other apps. Use this tool to record audio from your computer's built-in microphone with a single click. You can record from an external microphone if it is selected as the input source in System Preferences, Sound.
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System Requirements for Parallels Desktop 15
Supported Mac Configurations
| Minimum To run most applications such as Microsoft Office, accounting, trading, SAP, Matlab and more | Best Performance For graphics-intensive applications, high loads and running multiple virtual machines | |
|---|---|---|
| Processor | Intel Core 2 Duo, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, Core i9, Intel Core M or Xeon processor | Intel Core i5, Core i7, Core i9 or Xeon processor |
| Memory | 4 GB of RAM | 16 GB of RAM or more |
| Storage | 500 MB for Parallels Desktop application installation Additional disk space for the guest operating system (at least 16 GB is required for Windows 10) | SSD drive |
| Graphics | Intel, AMD Radeon or NVIDIA | AMD Radeon Pro graphics card |
| Operating System | macOS Catalina 10.15 (when released) macOS Mojave 10.14 macOS High Sierra 10.13 macOS Sierra 10.12 | macOS Catalina 10.15 (when released) DirectX 11 requires at least macOS Mojave 10.14 but works best on macOS 10.15 Catalina. |
| Internet connection is required for product activation, updates and select features. | ||
Guest Operating Systems
Update Mac Os X 10.9.5
- Windows 10
- Windows 8.1
- Windows 8
- Windows Server 2019
- Windows Server 2016
- Windows Server 2012 R2
- Windows 7 (SP0-SP1)
- Windows Server 2008 R2 (SP0-SP2)
- Windows Vista Home, Business, Ultimate and Enterprise (SP0-SP2)
- Windows Server 2003 R2 (SP0-SP2)
- Windows XP (SP0-SP3)
- Windows 2000 Professional SP4
- Windows 2000 Server SP4
- Boot2Docker
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7 and 6
- CentOS Linux 7 and 6
- Fedora Linux 30 * and 29
- Ubuntu 19.04, 18.04 LTS and 16.04 LTS
- Debian GNU/Linux 9 and 8
- Suse Linux Enterprise 15
- OpenSUSE Linux 15.1 and 15
- Linux Mint 19 and 18
- Kali 2019 and 2018
- Elementary 5
- Manjaro 18
- Mageia 7 and 6
- Gentoo Linux **
- Solaris 11 and 10 **
- openBSD 6 **
- FreeBSD 12 and 11 **
- openVZ 7
- eComStation 2 and 1.2 **
- ReactOS 0.4 **
- Android OS*
- macOS Catalina 10.15 (when released)
- macOS Mojave 10.14.x
- macOS High Sierra 10.13.x
- macOS Sierra 10.12.x
- OS X El Capitan 10.11.x
- OS X Yosemite 10.10.x
- OS X Mavericks 10.9.x
- OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.x
- OS X Lion 10.7.x
- OS X Lion Server 10.7.x
- Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server 10.6.x
- Mac OS X Leopard Server 10.5.x
- and many more...
- * — Only the version downloaded with help of the Installation Assistant with Parallels Desktop.
** — Parallels Tools are not available for this operating system.
Note: Parallels Desktop for Mac emulates PC hardware, so operating systems that are not present in this list can work as well. They are not on the list because we didn't test them in our lab yet or we found some critical issues. You can download the Parallels Desktop trial and install an operating system of your choice. If it doesn't work and you believe it should be supported, let us know at Parallels Forum.
Parallels Tools for Linux require X Window System version 1.15–1.20 and Linux Kernel version 2.6.29–5.1.
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PC system requirements to move your PC to your Mac (using Parallels Transporter Agent):
Os X 10 9 5
- 700 MHz (or higher) x86 or x64 processor (Intel or AMD)
- 256 MB of RAM
- 50 MB of available hard disk space for installation of Parallels Transporter Agent
- Ethernet or WiFi network adapter for migrating over network
- External USB drive for migrating via external disk
- Supported Windows: Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000 *
- * — To migrate Windows Vista or older, Transporter Agent from Parallels Desktop 13 should be used. Download the Parallels Transporter Agent.