Sadly, the automatic setting only works with recent flavors of Microsoft’s OS-Windows 10 and 8.1 worked for me, but not Windows 7 or XP, nor any VMs running macOS, Linux, or Android.Īnother step in the right direction with Parallels Desktop 14 is the new Free Up Disk Space feature. Rather than guess how much you might need or accepting the recommended settings, the software now dynamically balances between what’s available and what’s needed. Parallels Desktop 14 allows Mac users to run Windows, Linux, and even Android side-by-side with macOS.Īt least some of this improvement can be attributed to the way Parallels Desktop 14 automatically adjusts video memory usage for best performance.

Parallelsįorget Boot Camp or a dual-boot partition. The results are quite remarkable as a longtime Parallels user, this is the closest to running Windows 10 on actual PC hardware I’ve ever seen.

Windows VMs now start up to 35 percent faster, as do applications that run inside them. Since Mac owners do rely on Parallels Desktop to run one or more flavors of Windows on their preferred OS, a lot of energy this time around has been devoted to enhancements on this front.

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