#HOW TO DELETE PARALLELS FROM MAC INSTALL#
If you have Two Factor Authentication enabled (2FA), have your trusted device handy so you can enter the 6-digit code needed to proceed.Īs always, the user and passcode you define at install time is the administrator. Also, you’ll need to know your Apple ID and password. The installation will go exactly as if you were installing a new version of macOS on any Mac. Your Mac’s Recovery Partition has a factory fresh version of macOS, and that’s what will be used to build your new virtual machine in PD. In the “Create New” window, click on the big, gray right arrow until you see: “Install macSO 10.13.4 Using the Recovery Partition.” Click it.A Working ExampleĪfter you have Parallels Desktop installed, follow these steps in PD. In the PD preferences, I’ve elected to keep all my VMs on an external hard disk that has terrabytes of free space. 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.
#HOW TO DELETE PARALLELS FROM MAC FOR MAC#
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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