Windows 10 is now the most popular version of Windows. Installing it on Parallels Desktop® for Mac is easy to do—and does not require you to purchase Windows 10 beforehand.
There are four different scenarios you might find yourself in, with slightly different steps:
Scenario 1: You have just installed Parallels Desktop 14 on your Mac®.
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Scenario 2: You have Parallels Desktop on your Mac, and you want to add a Windows 10 virtual machine (VM).
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Scenario 3: You want to upgrade an existing Windows VM to Windows 10.
Scenario 4: You want to move Windows 10 from a physical PC into a Parallels Desktop VM.
Here are the individual steps for each:
Scenario 1: You have just installed Parallels Desktop 14 on your Mac.
When you first launch Parallels Desktop 14 on a Mac, it will detect that you have no virtual machines and will automatically offer to download and install Windows 10 for you. (See Figure 1.)
Once you click “Install Windows,” there is basically nothing else for you to do. The Windows 10 installation files will begin downloading (Figure 2).
Note: If you click on “Skip” instead, you will be directed to the Installation Assitant where you can purchase Windows 10 (see Figure 8).
Figure 2_Downloading Windows 10
Once the download finishes, the installation of Windows 10 into a new VM in Parallels Desktop will begin (Figure 3).
You will be notified when it completes (Figure 4).
Figure 4_Windows 10 installation complete
How long this process takes depends on the speed of your Internet connection and Mac. For me, at home and on a new MacBook Air®, this took about one hour and 40 minutes.
While Windows 10 is installing, you’ll see dialogs about the installation of Parallels® Toolbox, a separate Parallels product that’s bundled with Parallels Desktop (Figure 5).
Figure 5_Parallels Toolbox, a product that is bundled with Parallels Desktop
Parallels Toolbox gives you 30+ single-purpose tools for common tasks. I encourage you to install Parallels Toolbox—I think you’ll find the tools very useful.
After Windows 10 is installed, you should get all of the available updates, and there probably will be several of them (Figure 6).
This may take a while but is very important.
At this point, you have a working installation of Windows 10 in a Parallels Desktop VM. You have not yet purchased Windows from Microsoft. A few features will be disabled until you do so. You can purchase and activate Windows from within your Windows VM, and the entire process takes only a few minutes (Figure 7).
Figure 7_Purchasing and activating Windows 10
Scenario 2: You have Parallels Desktop on your Mac, and you want to add a Windows 10 VM.
Adding Windows 10 as an additional VM in Parallels Desktop is also easy.
To start the process, either choose “New…” in the File menu of Parallels Desktop, or click on the “+” sign in the top right corner of the Control Center window.
Assuming that you don’t have a Windows 10 installation DVD laying around, click on the “Get Windows 10 from Microsoft” button (Figure 8).
Figure 8_Get Windows 10 button in the Installation Assistant
Then choose to purchase Windows 10 Home or Windows 10 Pro in the next screen. If you want to install Windows 10 without making a purchase yet, choose to download it (Figure 9).
Whichever path you choose, you will end up with a Windows 10 installation ISO file and a Windows 10 product key. After that, everything proceeds in the same manner as scenario 1. (See the previous Figure 2 as an example.) Don’t forget to install Parallels Toolbox and all the available Windows 10 updates!
Scenario 3: You want to upgrade an existing Windows VM to Windows 10.
Use these steps if you have a Windows 7 or 8 VM that you would like to upgrade to Windows 10.
Upgrading an operating system is a task best done with lots of RAM. If possible, upgrade the amount of memory allocated to the VM to 4 GB, using the memory pane of the configuration dialog for the VM you will be upgrading. The VM cannot be running when you do this. Be sure that the RAM allocation slider remains in the green area on the memory scale, not the yellow or red areas (Figure 10).
Figure 10_Increase the memory allocation for the VM that will be upgraded
Two years ago, upgrading Windows 7 or 8 to Windows 10 was free, but that is no longer the case. You now need to pay for this upgrade—at least, this is what everyone thought.
Ed Bott reported on ZDNet in October 2018 that if you upgrade an activated copy of Windows in a specific way, the resulting Windows 10 will continue to be activated. I tried this for a Windows 8.1 VM, and it worked without any problems. Here’s what I did:
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1. Make sure you’re starting with an activated installation of Windows.
2. Download the Media Creation tool from the Download Windows 10 page. You must do this inside Windows, not from a Mac browser.
3. Run the Media Creation tool and choose “Upgrade this PC now” (Figure 11).
Figure 11_Using the Media Creation tool to upgrade to Windows 10
4. If you’re warned about an incompatible Parallels Display Adapter, just confirm that you understand. (Figure 12.)
Figure 12_Don’t worry about this warning if you see it
5. This issue will be taken care of when Parallels Tools reinstalls after the upgrade to Windows 10.
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6. The Windows 10 upgrade files will be downloaded, and the install will proceed. Parallels Tools will automatically reinstall.
7. When finished, you will have an activated installation of Windows 10 (Figure 13).
Figure 13_Success! An activated installation of Windows 10
Don’t forget to reset the memory allocation in the upgraded VM. The increased allocation was only needed for the OS installation process.
Scenario 4: You want to move Windows 10 from a physical PC into a Parallels Desktop VM.
In this last scenario, you start out with the Installation Assistant dialog (see previous Figure 8) but choose “Transfer Windows from a PC.” You will then see the Transfer Windows dialog shown in Figure 14.
This process will copy everything from a physical PC to a Parallels Desktop VM: apps, data files, and Windows itself. The physical PC will not be modified.
The most common way to transfer is via the network. The amount of time this will take depends on how much information is on the PC and how fast your network is.
There may be several Windows PCs on your network, so you need to indicate which PC you want to migrate into a VM. Do this by installing the Parallels Transfer Agent on the PC to be migrated.
There are two computers involved in this transfer: the Windows PC you are transferring from, and the Mac running Parallels Desktop which you are transferring to. Some of the actions you’ll take to set up this transfer occur on the PC and others on the Mac, so you will need to go back and forth between the two computers to set everything up. These tasks are not complicated, as shown in this video:
Figure 15.
I hope you’ve seen how easy it is to install Windows 10 on Parallels Desktop. Feel free to download a free full-featured trial of Parallels Desktop and install Windows 10 like explained in scenario 1 right away at no extra cost.
Let us know in the comments below, on Twitter or Facebook which way of installing Windows 10 on your Mac worked best for you.
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Virtual machine can use three different networking modes depending on user needs:
To switch between network modes go to macOS menu bar when virtual machine is active > Devices menu > Network.
Note: configuring Shared and Host-Only networks is available in Pro Edition in Parallels Desktop Preferences > Network.
Shared Networking
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This is the default and recommended network mode for virtual machines, as it does not require any specific configuring and works 'out of the box'. When this networking mode is used Parallels Desktop will work as a virtual router for your virtual machine. As a result:
- Parallels Desktop creates a separate virtual subnet with its own virtual DHCP server running in macOS.
- A virtual machine belongs to that virtual subnet with its own IP range.
- A virtual machine is not visible in the real subnet the Mac belongs to.
- A virtual machine use full Internet access.
- If Mac is connected to virtual private network - VPN access is automatically shared with virtual machine.
This network mode is suitable for most of user needs.
Bridged Network
When this network mode is used, your virtual machine uses a virtualized network interface card with direct access to Internet. As a result:
- A virtual machine appears as a separate computer that belongs to the same subnet as the Mac it is running on.
- A DHCP server (e.g., your router) provides a virtual machine with an IP address within the same IP range as other computers in the same subnet.
- A virtual machine can ping and see all computers in the subnet.
- Other computers can ping and see the virtual machine.
Note: when selecting this network mode Parallels Desktop is no longer responsible for network connectivity issues.
Bridged network can be enabled on a particular network interface, such as Ethernet, Wi-Fi or other Mac network interfaces.
- Bridged: Ethernet corresponds to your Mac Ethernet adapter
- Bridged: Wi-Fi corresponds to your Mac Wi-Fi adapter. (may work unstable depending on router settings)
- Bridged: Default Adapter corresponds to whichever network adapter is chosen as the default (the first in the list System Preferences > Network) on the Mac.
Host-Only Network
This mode is similar to Shared Network except that this virtual subnet (10.37.129.x) is isolated from the outer world. As a result, the virtual machine that is working in host-only mode can only see and ping other virtual machines and communicate with the gateway (10.37.129.1).
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The networking technology basics below should help you decide which networking mode to choose.
When talking about networking we often use terms like IP address, DHCP Server, subnetwork, and many others. The first three are the most important in our case.
IP address
A numerical label assigned to each device (e.g., computer, printer) participating in a computer network that uses the Internet Protocol (IP) for communication.
IP addresses are represented in dot-decimal notation, which consists of four decimal numbers, each ranging from 0 to 255, separated by dots, e.g., 192.168.0.10. Each part represents a group of eight bits of the address. IP addresses, like regular addresses, are used by computers and other devices to communicate with each other.
An IP address can be assigned to a network device (e.g., computer, printer, tablet, smartphone, etc.) either manually by a user or a System Administrator, or automatically by a DHCP server. To see the IP address of your Mac, go to System Preferences > Network.
Your Mac will normally use either a Wi-Fi connection:
or an Ethernet (cable) connection:
DHCP server
A computer or a specific network device (router) that maintains a database of available IP addresses and configuration information. When the server receives a request from a client device (e.g., computer, printer), the DHCP server determines the network to which the DHCP client is connected, and then allocates an IP address that is appropriate for the client, and sends configuration information appropriate for that client.
In an average home network your router will work as a DHCP server that automatically assigns the IP addresses to all your network devices so that you do not need to worry about the IP addresses and other necessary settings for your Mac or a smartphone.
Subnetwork (subnet)
A logically visible subdivision of an IP network. The practice of dividing a network into two or more networks is called subnetting.
All computers that belong to a subnet are addressed with a common, identical, most-significant bit-group in their IP address. For example, a typical home subnet will have IP addresses in the following range: 192.168.0.1-255. This means your Wi-Fi router will have an IP address of 192.168.0.1, your MacBook Pro® will have an IP address of 192.168.0.10, your smartphone - 192.168.0.20 and your wireless printer - 192.168.0.30. To learn more about the settings of the DHCP server, please read your router's documentation.
Traffic between subnetworks is exchanged or routed with special gateways called routers, which constitute the logical or physical boundaries between the subnets.
Network adapters (NIC) types in virtual machine configuration explanation
In virtual machine configuration you can choose between 4 types of network interface card (NIC):
Virtio network adapter is the fastest card. However, it works only in Linux and BSD guest operating systems. It is a default adapter for Linux-based OSes.
Intel® PRO/1000 MT is a default network adapter for Windows and Mac OS X virtual machines. It works in all operating systems. It also counts a checksum and splits packages. Thus it allows to increase the network performance.
Intel® Gigabit CT (82574L) Support for this network interface was added in Parallels Desktop 11 for Mac. This is Intel's e1000e Ethernet driver.
Realtek RTL8029AS is the simplest adapter from the list. It does not count a checksum or split packages. The Realtek adapter can be used only if you have Parallels Tools installed in your virtual machine. Without Parallels Tools it will work very slow or even will not work at all. It works especially good with Windows XP virtual machines.