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Shut down your virtual machine. Open virtual machine's configuration window > Hardware > CPU & Memory; Set the required amount of RAM by entering a number manually or moving the slider: NOTE: We highly recommend to keep the slider within the recommended range. Assigning more RAM than recommended may cause severe performance degradation of both Mac and virtual machine.

Parallels Server for Mac
Stable release
Parallels Server for Mac running Mac OS X Leopard Server in a VM on top of Mac OS X Leopard Server
Developer(s)	Parallels, Inc.
Operating system	Mac OS X Server
Platform	Apple–Intel architecture
Available in	Multilingual^[which?]
Type	Hypervisor
License	Proprietary
Website	parallels.com/products/server/mac/

Parallels Server for Mac is a server-sidedesktop virtualization product built for the Mac OS X Server platform and is developed by Parallels, Inc., a developer of desktop virtualization and virtual private server software. This software allows users to run multiple distributions of Linux, Windows and FreeBSD server applications alongside Mac OS X Server on Intel-based Apple hardware.

Parallels Server for Mac was not in development for more than a year^[1] before its alpha stage was demoed at MacWorld 2008 ^[2] and the product was officially released on June 17, 2008.^[3] While in beta, Parallels Server for Mac did not allow running Mac OS X Server in a virtual machine; however, Apple eased up on its licensing restrictions before Parallels Server for Mac’s GA release to allow running Mac OS X Leopard Server in a virtual machine as long as that virtual machine is running on Apple hardware.^[4]

Overview[edit]

Similar to Parallels Desktop for Mac, Parallels Server for Mac is a hypervisor-based server virtualization software that allows users to run multiple guest operating systems, each in a virtual machine, alongside a primary or 'host' operating system. The product's hypervisor allows each virtual machine to function as a standalone server with its own virtualized hardware, memory and processor. However, unlike the desktop software, Parallels Server for Mac is a hardware-optimized enterprise product designed to handle server workloads such as databases and enterprise email and is aimed at the professional market rather than the consumer market.^[5] Parallels Server for Mac allows users to run Intel-powered Apple hardware in a business environment without isolating the Mac servers from the organization’s Windows and Linux systems.

System requirements[edit]

Intel-powered Mac server or desktop computer running Mac OS X Server Leopard
Minimum 2 GB RAM
40.5 MB hard disk space for Parallels Server for Mac
Minimum 150 GB for VM files and virtual hard disks
Optical drive
Ethernet or FireWire network adapter

Key features[edit]

Parallels Management Console on Parallels Server for Mac

Users can run 32- and 64-bit guest operating systems such as Mac OS X Server, Windows, Linux, and Apple UNIX runtime for Xserve and DTK in virtual machines on Apple Xserves and Mac Pros.Parallels Server for Mac comes with Parallels Tools, Parallels Transporter for P2V and V2V migration and Parallels Disk Image tool for modifying the size of virtual disks. Also included are the Parallels Management Console, which allows server administrators to manage the virtual machines both locally and remotely^[3] and Parallels Explorer, which allows access to virtual machines without launching the guest operating system.

Additional features include:

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ARM guest OS support (only works with ios, other systems fail to start)
Virtual support for 4-way Symmetric Multi-processing (4-way SMP)
Up to 32 GB of physical RAM
64 MB memory support with up to 8 GB guest memory
Supports virtual guest disk sizes up to 2 TB
Supports Intel Virtualization Technology (Intel VT-x)) hardware acceleration
Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) support in VMs
SDK that enables third-party vendors to incorporate support for Parallels Server for Mac into their own products
SNMP, Command line interface (CLI)
VM Assistant to create new virtual machines

Limitations[edit]

Parallels Server for Mac can run only on Intel-based Apple hardware which must be running Mac OS X Leopard Server, not Mac OS X Tiger Server or on PC hardware. Also, at this time, users cannot run Mac OS X versions newer than 10.6 in a virtual environment due to Apple licensing restrictions. Also Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) and 10.8 (Mountain Lion) and 10.9 (Mavericks) cannot be virtualized with this software.

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References[edit]

^Parallels demos Mac server virtualization
^Macworld | Parallels Server for Mac demoed at WWDC
^ ^a^bParallels Server for Mac Announced || The Mac Observer
^Virtualization Report | David Marshall | InfoWorld | Parallels announces the first Mac server virtualization platform | June 18, 2008 08:14 AM | David MarshallArchived June 19, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
^Parallels Server for Mac available now - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)

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