If you have a smallish SSD that you boot from, say, 128 or 256 GB, you could end up creating more virtual machines later that will use up a lot of file space on the boot drive. I won’t go into the details of the installation in this how-to.

That’s because the VM install places heavy load on your CPU. Also, I recommend temporarily turning Time Machine off until you’re all done with the process below. It’s not hard to install, and it acts pretty much like any other application on your /Applications folder. 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.

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