It costs $80 per year, and there’s student pricing at $40. Parallels Desktop (PD) for Mac is now at version 13.
In this example, I’ll be using the following environment: If the guest OS becomes infected with malware, it’s easy to just delete the guest OS without affecting the host Mac. Or, as in the example I’ll give, take a snapshot of the guest macOS and return to a previous state.Īnother extreme example would be experimental security work in a dicey internet environment. If things go wrong or conflicts arise with other software, one can diagnose, delete the virtual machine and start over. One might, for example wish to install Adobe Creative Suite, Java, X-Windows or some other major package that might have unanticipated interactions with other software.
The first question is, why would one want to do this? The answer is usually because one wants to experiment with the installation of a major piece of software that could have unanticipated side effects on one’s main installation of macOS on a Mac. Parallels’ example of multiple VM’s, running on a Mac’s desktop.
