For those who are interested – some more detail about the Parallels platform …
The current version of Parallels Workstation for Windows officially supports the following guest operating systems:
Microsoft Windows guest operating systems:
– Windows Vista
– 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 Professional Edition SP2
– Windows XP Home Edition SP2
– Windows XP Professional Edition SP1
– Windows XP Home Edition SP1
– Windows XP Professional Edition SP0
– Windows XP Home Edition SP0
– Windows 2000 Professional Edition SP4
– Windows 2000 Server SP4
– Windows 2000 Advanced Sever 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 5
– 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
– Ubuntu Linux 5.04
– Xandros Linux 4.0
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:
– Solaris 10
– Solaris 9
MS-DOS guest operating system:
– MS-DOS 6.22
Virtual Machine Equipment
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Parallels Workstation virtualizes the following PC hardware:
– CPU: Intel Pentium or AMD
– Generic motherboard compatible with Intel i815 chipset
– RAM up to 1500 MB
– VGA and SVGA with VESA 3.0 support
– 1.44 MB floppy drive (mapped to a physical drive or to an image file)
– Up to 4 IDE devices. Each of them may be either a virtual hard drive
(from 20 MB up to 128 GB each, mapped to image file) or a CD/DVD-ROM drive
(mapped to physical drive or to an image file)
– Ethernet virtual network card compatible with RTL8029. Parallels Workstation
supports bridging to wireless network adapters
– Up to 4 serial (COM) ports (mapped to real port, to pipe or to output file)
– Up to 3 bi-directional parallel (LPT) ports (mapped to real port, to printer
or to output file)
– 2-port USB 1.1 controller
– AC97 compatible sound card. Sound recording is supported
– 104-key Windows enhanced keyboard
– A PS/2 wheel mouse