The first official release of version 2.5 was on February 27, 2007, as build 3186. A 104-key Windows enhanced keyboard and a PS/2 wheel mouse.

Up to eight USB 2.0 devices and two USB 1.1 devices,.An Ethernet virtual network card compatible with Realtek RTL8029(AS), capable of up to 16 network interface connections,.Up to three bi-directional parallel ports, each of which can be mapped to a real port, to a real printer, or to an output file,.Up to four serial ports that can be mapped to a pipe or to an output file,.Virtual CD/DVD-ROM drives can be mapped to either physical drives or ISO image files. This includes virtual hard drives ranging in size from 20 MB to 2 TB each and CD/DVD-ROM drives. A 1.44 MB floppy drive, which can be mapped to a physical drive or to an image file,.VGA and SVGA video adapter with VESA 3.0 support and OpenGL and DirectX 10.1 acceleration,.

Up to 64 GB of RAM for guest virtual machines,.

A generic motherboard compatible with the Intel i965 chipset,.

A virtualized CPU of the same type as the host's physical processor,.

Parallels Desktop for Mac is able to virtualize a full set of standard PC hardware, including For example, a running virtual machine can be stopped, copied to another physical computer, and restarted. Because all guest virtual machines use the same hardware drivers irrespective of the actual hardware on the host computer, virtual machine instances are highly portable between computers. Each virtual machine thus operates identically to a standalone computer, with virtually all the resources of a physical computer. Parallels Desktop for Mac is a hardware emulation virtualization software, using hypervisor technology that works by mapping the host computer's hardware resources directly to the virtual machine's resources. On January 10, 2007, Parallels Desktop 3.0 for Mac was awarded “Best in Show” at MacWorld 2007. Parallels agreed: “ Since we've got a great Mac product, we should make it look and sound like a Mac product.”, it was therefore renamed ‘Parallels Desktop for Mac’. This name was not well received within the Mac community, where some felt that the name, particularly the term “workstation,” evoked the aesthetics of a Windows product. Its name initially was ' Parallels Workstation for Mac OS X', which was consistent with the company's corresponding Linux and Windows products. Released on June 15, 2006, it was the first software product to bring mainstream virtualization to Macintosh computers utilizing the Apple–Intel architecture (earlier software products ran PC software in an emulated environment). is a developer of desktop and server virtualization software.

2.4.1.5 macOS Server guest operating system.

2.4.1.3 Windows guest operating systems.

2.2.2 Use of code from the Wine project.

Vm for mac osx