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Before you upgrade to OS X El Capitan, be sure to upgrade to Parallels Desktop 11 for Mac. It is our latest version, fully optimized and enhanced for OS X El Capitan. (From past experience, I usually have to upgrade Parallels Desktop every second OS X release. Here's how to instal El Capitan on your Mac, while leaving a working OS X Yosemite installation running alongside OS X El Capitan is available now, having launched on 30 September, however, you.
Please find the table with Parallels Desktop and macOS (as a main system) compatibility information below. Compatibility table for End-of-Life Parallels Desktop versions is below.
| Mac OS version | OS X Yosemite | OS X El Capitan | macOS Sierra | macOS High Sierra | macOS Mojave |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parallels Desktop version | 10.10 or later | 10.11 or later | 10.12 or later | 10.13 or later | 10.14 or later |
Parallels Desktop 15 | √ | √ | √ | ||
Parallels Desktop 14 | √ | √ | √ | √ | |
Parallels Desktop 13 | √ | √ | √ | √ | √* |
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* Please note that Parallels Desktop 13 only partially support working on macOS Mojave environment due to technical reasons and the following issues can occur:
- Issues with creating a Boot Camp based virtual machine
- Visual and graphics artifacts
- Intermittent application crash
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To avoid these issues we recommend to upgrade to Parallels Desktop 15.
End-of-Life versions of Parallels Desktop
| Mac OS version | Mac OS X Tiger | Mac OS X Leopard | Mac OS X Snow Leopard | Mac OS X Lion | OS X Mountain Lion | OS X Maveriks | OS X Yosemite | OS X El Capitan | macOS Sierra | macOS High Sierra | macOS Mojave | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parallels Desktop version | 10.4.6 or later | 10.4.11 or later | 10.5.2 or later | 10.5.8 or later | 10.6 or later | 10.6.3 or later | 10.6.8 or later | 10.7 or later | 10.7.5 or later | 10.8 or later | 10.9 or later | 10.10 or later | 10.11 or later | 10.12 or later | 10.13 or later | 10.14 or later |
Parallels Desktop 12 | √ | √ | √ | √* | √* | |||||||||||
Parallels Desktop 11 | √ | √ | √ | √ | ||||||||||||
Parallels Desktop 10 | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | |||||||||||
Parallels Desktop 9 | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | |||||||||||
Parallels Desktop 8 | √ | √ | √ | √ | ||||||||||||
Parallels Desktop 7 | √ | √ | √ | |||||||||||||
Parallels Desktop 6 | √ | √ | ||||||||||||||
Parallels Desktop 5 | √ | √ | √ | |||||||||||||
Parallels Desktop 4 | √ | √ | ||||||||||||||
Parallels Desktop 3 | √ | |||||||||||||||
Parallels Desktop 2.5 | √ | |||||||||||||||
*Versions marked with asterisks are partially compatible with the corresponding macOS versions and may not work correctly.